Crosshairs not really gunsights... umm.. sure

[Carnos Jax]

Dakota wrote: ...Sorry I have to make you look like a fool. Again.

The irony... (

You can attempt to spin it it any way you want and try to read what is not there...you're too much of a dolt to realize that people are criticizing YOUR treatment of the issue.

Either way, you're an idiot and a bigot...again. Besides, where were YOU when fans like you were 'bullhorning' about how 9/11 was Bush's Pearl Harbor moment?

[RgrF]

J Marston wrote:
[quote=Gabriell Giffords]
"We're on Sarah Palin's targeted list, but the thing is that the way that she has it depicted has the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district, and when people do that, they've gotta realize there's consequences to that action."
                         25 March 2010

Were the graphic entirely innocent, Palin wouldn't have removed it from her web site.
Maybe why Glenn Beck's website scrubbed this...

[OWC Jamie]

some GPS /chartplotters use crosshairs for target/ waypoint/ current position some even overlay them on a "map".
In an environment that uses lots of electronic charting , like in small planes, boats and even hunting and navigating they become part of the daily vernacular.
Someone in Alaska or someone interested in political maps probably wouldn't avail themselves of that technology though.

[Mac1337]

The faux outrage has dissipated. The people who vow to bring a gun to a fight have no leg to stand on. The overnight gun experts here show their utter ignorance by calling a crosshair a "gunsight".

[OWC Jamie]

Give it up. They don't want to know the difference, either.

[$tevie]

Yeah yeah yeah it's a scope not a sight. Big whoop. This from people who don't know what a target is.

[Mac1337]

It is NOT a scope. Do you see this on Palin's, or DLC's, map? Put down your Ladies Home Journal and start reading some Guns and Ammo before making any more posts here.

[$tevie]

My husband was a sharpshooter in the military and he said the scope had crosshairs.


As pathetic as your English is you should avoid arguing about technical semantics that nobody in the general public even needs to know.

That doesn't change anything anyhow, if someone sees crosshairs in the context being discussed they know what it is supposed to mean -- and so do you.

[Ca Bob]

Telescopic sights have crosshairs. Everyone understood Palin's message, and most understood it to be metaphoric. The fact that the metaphor was boastful, puerile, and irresponsible is something that the right should confess rather than to continue in denial.

[voodoopenguin]

Having now ascertained that the symbols were not crosshairs from gunsights but map symbols can someone explain to me what "reload" means now? Thank you.

Paul