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In reply to the discussion: Mother shoots home intruder...after he cornered her in attic with her twins, 9 [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)"WOLVERINES!!!"

101st Cheetoh Brigade, attack!
There's not gonna be a big gun owner revolution or some giant standoff against teh gun grabberz or whatever paranoid kook fantasy is running around RW militia-ville these days. When people talk that shit, they just sound fucking goofy.
And the paranoid "loooky here, they try to take teh guns there's gonna be some shootin'" civil war bargle, aside from being offensive, seditious, and downright illogical, is PART OF THE PROBLEM. The fantasy some (not you, good sir, but some) people seem to have around these weapons is that they're gonna wage some heroic last stand against tyranny or hybrid cars or electronic music or some such shit. It feeds into the cycle of people (like Lanza's "survivalist" mom) stockpiling these crazy-ass guns.
But I'm not smearing, I'm calling attention to the fact that it was an assault weapon, or an AR-15, or "not a fucking bushmaster!!!111!! see? you dont know shit about guns" that killed all those kids. I do believe that the weapon, and the clip size, was a part of the equation here.
It sounds like you're not opposed to the reinstating of the AWB, after all, so I'm not sure what you want to fight about.