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In reply to the discussion: Jason Alexander long twit on Assault Weapons [View all]Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)in a rough neighborhood. To Be clear, I'm a crack shot even at my age.
The point with Zip guns .....guns made specifically for killing people will find a way.
The AR 15...... is a better killing machine for specifically killing humans.
Nam, taught me that but it was a M16.that killed my childhood friend
on the early model
I've hunted the first 1/4 of my life, for food and learning from my Dad who had to hunt for food during the Great Depression... Wild Squirrels were what he hunted for his family with a 22.Deer and Elk are easier with a scope but not with a Black powder 50. I finally went to a bow until I quit and took up major fishing in the Gulf.......Now I'm just an old fart.
I feel I need to be in an Army or Militia.like the Swiss to own an so called Semi automatic, Assault Weapon in my home.
UNLESS YOU WANT A REVOLUTION, and believe as Chairman Mao said
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/maotsetun137206.html
Or as Lennon said
: You say you want a revolution, well, you know, we all want to change the world... But when you talk about destruction, don't you know that you ...,,
later on Chairman Mao, he refutes.
We can do better.
I do wish we had a democratic neighborhood MILITIA, that went from the grass roots and the Pentagon, but they gave us assault weapons or as RONALD REAGAN PUT IT
Ronald Reagan champions a compassionate campaign to resupply the freedom fighters in Nicaragua with machine guns, C-4 plastic explosives, and other humanitarian weapons that they so desperately need in their struggle against literacy, teachers, health clinics and agricultural co-operatives.
Well we still have ...... Shit...... that we can put in the Bank
You can Bank on that.
Man..... do those terms have new meaning
as does the dialogue that is happening here.
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