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Straw Man

(6,613 posts)
33. I'm not.
Mon Apr 23, 2018, 03:17 PM
Apr 2018

I already said I'm OK with banning bump stocks. Magazine limits might be another fruitful area for discussion. I'm not OK with banning semi-auto rifles, which is what your AR ban boils down to once you winnow all the "assault rifle" chaff out of it.

And just when we were allowed to start talking about weapons genxlib Apr 2018 #1
Don't forget, before we can have any opinion on these weapons we must be able to define every wasupaloopa Apr 2018 #2
Uh yup JustAnotherGen Apr 2018 #3
I just tell them to get on board now with sane gun laws before we hit you with insane ones. Iggo Apr 2018 #28
+ 1,000 Canoe52 Apr 2018 #30
Hyperbole is not your friend. Straw Man Apr 2018 #15
If I use that word in a sentence 5 times is it mine? wasupaloopa Apr 2018 #58
I'm sure that "legitimate sport" can be had with an AR-15. Orsino Apr 2018 #4
The term "AR-15" is like the term "Xerox" Kaleva Apr 2018 #5
I'm referring to all assault weapons HopeAgain Apr 2018 #6
Here we go again ... Straw Man Apr 2018 #8
Guns with the ability to hold large amounts of ammunition and fire rapidly HopeAgain Apr 2018 #11
Please define "large amounts" and "rapidly." Straw Man Apr 2018 #14
I don't pass legislation HopeAgain Apr 2018 #32
So you don't know what you want. Straw Man Apr 2018 #36
Countries with gun control have less gun violence HopeAgain Apr 2018 #39
Oh, c'mon. How broad is your brush? Straw Man Apr 2018 #41
That's what we elect our politicians to do. HopeAgain Apr 2018 #17
Do you want to ban bump stocks? Now we're getting somewhere. Straw Man Apr 2018 #21
So you don't want to ban any guns, why not say that instead of gunsplaining? HopeAgain Apr 2018 #27
I'm not. Straw Man Apr 2018 #33
Bump stocks aren't guns HopeAgain Apr 2018 #34
So no detachable magazines? Straw Man Apr 2018 #38
Why not? What do you need them for? HopeAgain Apr 2018 #40
How about self-defense? Straw Man Apr 2018 #42
I've never felt the need to take care of myself that way. HopeAgain Apr 2018 #46
So you want to deny everyone else the opportunity? Straw Man Apr 2018 #48
I can't eliminate all risks and that risk is only getting greater HopeAgain Apr 2018 #52
If it saves only one life ... Straw Man Apr 2018 #54
So while you are waiting to save one life... HopeAgain Apr 2018 #56
One life? Or 116,000 lives, or 2.5 million lives? Straw Man Apr 2018 #59
That is not what the study says HopeAgain Apr 2018 #60
It's all hypothetical. Straw Man Apr 2018 #62
Save it, OK. Not now, please. MineralMan Apr 2018 #35
Not now? Why not? Straw Man Apr 2018 #49
I'm not collecting points. MineralMan Apr 2018 #50
I didn't start this thread. Straw Man Apr 2018 #55
Several years ago, I proposed a way to define what an assault weapon is. Kaleva Apr 2018 #10
The answer to your original question is 44 minutes. Iggo Apr 2018 #29
Ok, ban any damned thing that can fire more than 3 bullets in five seconds. Blue_true Apr 2018 #20
The old single-action revolvers ... Straw Man Apr 2018 #31
Oh spare me on how many sacrifices gunners have made. Blue_true Apr 2018 #45
Nice rant. Now, addressing the issue ... Straw Man Apr 2018 #47
I am done. Blue_true Apr 2018 #51
OK, thanks for the clarity. Straw Man Apr 2018 #53
But somehow the State of California has managed to define things pretty well. The_Casual_Observer Apr 2018 #57
And yet one can still legally buy AR-15 style rifles in California Kaleva Apr 2018 #61
How well? I see a welter of confusion and arbitrary nonsense. Straw Man Apr 2018 #63
I don't ususally respond to crackpots The_Casual_Observer Apr 2018 #66
And I don't usually respond ... Straw Man Apr 2018 #68
I don't see this AR-15 style rifle on the list Kaleva Apr 2018 #64
Yes, we have. Straw Man Apr 2018 #7
See post two above HopeAgain Apr 2018 #9
Already saw it. Straw Man Apr 2018 #12
That's merely one of many reasons... and one ain't 'only' LanternWaste Apr 2018 #19
It's the only reason I've seen invoked in this forum. Straw Man Apr 2018 #24
It shatters the myth that we need to arm everyone. NCTraveler Apr 2018 #22
Never seen that one, myself. Straw Man Apr 2018 #25
watch sales increase....that's america spanone Apr 2018 #13
They've usually started to weigh in by now EffieBlack Apr 2018 #16
See above HopeAgain Apr 2018 #18
The "definers" have already shown up. nt. NCTraveler Apr 2018 #23
Despite the "it's only a matter of time" well-poisoning. Straw Man Apr 2018 #26
Dana Loesch will be telling us that it's all our fault by this evening... Blue_Tires Apr 2018 #37
For the defininsists out there. Canoe52 Apr 2018 #43
Have you seen Twitter lately? Initech Apr 2018 #44
6 in 10 Americans are billh58 Apr 2018 #65
This sounds like a call out to the cave mushrooms. MyNameGoesHere Apr 2018 #67
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