Quite a large group unfortunately. Over on learnaboutguns.com (sidebar) there is an article, and a video, about one of them. A New York State Assemblywoman, speaking out for a ban on .50 caliber rifles said that the bullets from this rifle have incendiary tips, which she explains as meaning that they are heat-seeking and therefore hone in on their doomed targets. Oh, the horror! The horror!
Why is it that complete idiots like this woman feel free to speak such nonsense in public about something they clearly know nothing about? If it were any other subject but guns they would be totally discredited in the public eye for such ill-informed stupidity. Will the press call her on it, as they certainly would on almost any other subject? Probably not.
So I have a modest proposal. Just as gun owners who wish to carry a concealed handgun must "qualify" themselves, journalists and politicians who wish to spout off about firearms should be required to take a class or two and pass a test showing that they are likely, at the very least, to know what they are talking about. I don't think that's too much to ask. After all, a clown like this "servnt of the people" is speaking up to ban a whole class of objects she is obviously totally ignorant about. She should know something about what she's trying to deny to American citizens. Unfortunately, she is likely to stay smug and stupid. Sad, but true.
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I've long felt that way. If you know nothing about a subject then shut up until you learn.
That's asking a lot, apparently.
Is anything more stupid than a stupid politician?
You can't educate the unwilling, that includes the electorate unfortunately.
We get the government we deserve.
"Democracy is the theory that the common man knows what he wants and will get it, good and hard." -H.L. Mencken
You remember the famous Diane Feinstein television clip where she was trying to demonstrate her knowledge of the AK-47 and did everything but shoot herself in the foot? What a clown.
For the fine assemblywoman I offer this tool:
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I agree entirely. That would clear up this whole automatic weapons thing they keep spouting off about.
At first, I thought for sure she was going to say that they could cause forest fires!
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