smackababy
Lifer
- Oct 30, 2008
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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?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.
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.
