Connecticut Post front page: Front sight makes AR-15 "deadly", "lethal"

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smackababy

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It's my sense that lawmakers make laws that will either get them re-elected, give themselves and their sponsors a profit, or on rare occasion, urge them to vote their conscience despite political risk. None of the aforementioned will induce the average politician to become an authority on firearms or whatever the case may be. Ergo, their "need" to enlist experts that help support their agenda. Opposing facts of the matter be damned, as it were.
Which is the problem in this country. Why does it make any sense that someone making decisions on policy over aspects (like energy, or transit, or education) need a law degree and not a degree in that particular field? How does it not make sense that someone with an engineering degree be in charge of making decisions over things that require an engineer in that field to fully understand?

The fact they won't even familiarize themselves with the rudimentary parts of a gun and what it does is laughable. The front sights could be argued, but even without looking down the sights, I have little trouble hitting a a man sized target at 25 yards from the hip after a few shots. The flash suppressor is effective minimizing (as well as using the gas expelled to compensate for recoil) detection after firing. None of the mass shootings we've experienced have had the gunmen trying to hide where they were firing from. I suppose Charles Whitman might count, but he wasn't using an assault rifle and that was 50 years ago.

If they wanted to actually get their point across without looking like morons, they'd have circled the trigger and the bullets with the caption "still deadly". At least, that would be accurate enough to get a pass.
 

Doppel

Lifer
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Still deadly? Well, yeah, if it weren't deadly it wouldn't really serve a point would it.
 

Thebobo

Lifer
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It's funny as shit that the liberal anti-gun nuts are so misinformed about guns. No wonder some people walking by look like they are gonna shit their pants when I carry a shot gun out of my car!

It's funny as shit that the right wing pro-gun nuts are so misinformed about what liberals want. No wonder some people when they read post like this they shit their pants.

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Seriously not all liberals are anti-gun nuts

Just like all conservatives are not pro-gun nuts
 

HTFOff

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I'm Canadian all that did not affect me
You guys having freaking here in p&n every time there is a shooting down there does nothing to your laws

If i am deciphering this correctly, you're saying our laws do not change after there are mass shootings?
 

irishScott

Lifer
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It's funny as shit that the right wing pro-gun nuts are so misinformed about what liberals want. No wonder some people when they read post like this they shit their pants.

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Seriously not all liberals are anti-gun nuts

Just like all conservatives are not pro-gun nuts

Yes, because liberals are coming out in droves against gun control, and reigning in those members of their party proposing such ignorant legislation. :rolleyes:

I'm sure there's an extreme minority of liberals who are against typical gun control efforts, but that doesn't negate the actions of their representatives. If liberals were in charge our gun rights would be severely limited or virtually nonexistent, and the 2nd amendment would be gone.
 

Kadarin

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I am confused at how the compensator has anything to do with the lethality of a weapon. Are guns without compensators less deadly?

Only if it's a "ghost gun" with a .30 caliber clip that fires 30 rounds every half second.
 

irishScott

Lifer
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I'm Canadian all that did not affect me
You guys having freaking here in p&n every time there is a shooting down there does nothing to your laws

I think you need to take a closer look at New York, Colorado, California, and Connecticut.
 

TerryMathews

Lifer
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I'm Canadian all that did not affect me
You guys having freaking here in p&n every time there is a shooting down there does nothing to your laws

You've got cause and effect reversed. The laws dont change because we stay on the offensive. We learned our lesson well in 1992.