re: Florida is in trouble

The constitution was written over 200 years ago. By your logic we should keep football with leather helmets and a goal post in the middle of the endzone because evolution in basic society doesn’t matter.

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Why don’t you just sit this one out, hoss.

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How long do you need me to sit out before you come up with a real response?

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The constitution was written over 200 years ago. By your logic we should keep football with leather helmets and a goal post in the middle of the endzone because evolution in basic society doesn’t matter.

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

-John Adams

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My associates degree in womens studies says otherwise, buddy

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Wow, what a waste of money.

But, are you able to define what a woman is?

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Actually...

The term, "assault rifle" is literally a translation of the German, "Sturmgewehr". Perhaps you're thinking of the term, "Assault weapon".

But beyond that, all of language is just stringing made up terms together. Look at all the "made up" words we've gotten in the last 30 years just from the Internet.

But also, it doesn't matter what you think is meaningful or meaningless, the term will be defined by law if they ever want to prohibit their popular use.

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You can call something anything you want. But the definition of assault is either a verb or a noun, not an adjective.

And no, they would never use the term "assault rifle" in any law. Because again, it doesn't exist.

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Isn't that just another "made up" term? I mean, I don't think anyone was using that term back in the Napoleonic era. Somebody had to make it up along the way.

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The word tactical is an adjective. So no, it's not made up at all. It's the correct word to use.

An actual assault rifle MUST be capable of select fire. You'd think the supposedly educated liberals would know that.

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ChiGator

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More people are murdered annually with blunt objects like hammers than they are with rifles (and that's ALL rifles, not just evil scary ones like an AR15).

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you must not pay attention to many laws.

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I certainly try not to.

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most politicians want to leave things open to interpretations

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I never said it would be a clear definition.

But, I probably would look back to see if there have been comparable laws in the past to see what kind of language to expect...


Oh, look, here's one:

May 16, 1994

Read the second time and placed on the calendar





Calendar No. 426
103d CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 4296

To make unlawful the transfer or possession of assault weapons.


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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

May 10 (legislative day, May 2), 1994

Received and read the first time

May 16, 1994

Read the second time and placed on the calendar

_______________________________________________________________________

AN ACT



To make unlawful the transfer or possession of assault weapons.

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The term `semiautomatic assault weapon' means--
``(A) any of the firearms, or copies or duplicates of the
firearms, known as--
``(i) Norinco, Mitchell, and Poly Technologies
Avtomat Kalashnikovs (all models);
``(ii) Action Arms Israeli Military Industries UZI
and Galil;
``(iii) Beretta Ar70 (SC-70);
``(iv) Colt AR-15;
``(v) Fabrique National FN/FAL, FN/LAR, and FNC;
``(vi) SWD M-10, M-11, M-11/9, and M-12;
``(vii) Steyr AUG;
``(viii) INTRATEC TEC-9, TEC-DC9 and TEC-22; and
``(ix) revolving cylinder shotguns, such as (or
similar to) the Street Sweeper and Striker 12;
``(B) a semiautomatic rifle that has an ability to accept a
detachable magazine and has at least 2 of--
``(i) a folding or telescoping stock;
``(ii) a pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously
beneath the action of the weapon;
``(iii) a bayonet mount;
``(iv) a flash suppressor or threaded barrel
designed to accommodate a flash suppressor; and
``(v) a grenade launcher;
``(C) a semiautomatic pistol that has an ability to accept
a detachable magazine and has at least 2 of--
``(i) an ammunition magazine that attaches to the
pistol outside of the pistol grip;
``(ii) a threaded barrel capable of accepting a
barrel extender, flash suppressor, forward handgrip, or
silencer;
``(iii) a shroud that is attached to, or partially
or completely encircles, the barrel and that permits
the shooter to hold the firearm with the nontrigger
hand without being burned;
``(iv) a manufactured weight of 50 ounces or more
when the pistol is unloaded; and
``(v) a semiautomatic version of an automatic
firearm; and
``(D) a semiautomatic shotgun that has at least 2 of--
``(i) a folding or telescoping stock;
``(ii) a pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously
beneath the action of the weapon;
``(iii) a fixed magazine capacity in excess of 5
rounds; and
``(iv) an ability to accept a detachable
magazine.''.

LINK




I'd pretty much bet that's kind of how the definition of an assault weapon might look in the text of a law banning assault weapons.

Most mass shootings involve handguns though.

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Comparing Chicago’s violence (or any urban city) to Mass Shootings is absurd. But I wouldn’t expect some ignorant hillbilly to understand or care.

Chicago’s inner city violence is centered around gangs, which in turn has been driven by poverty, drugs, shitty schools, lack of funding broken families, etc. This violence is located in heavy gang led areas of the city. It’s a terrible situation and the result of shitty leadership, politics, segregation.

Chicago’s gang violence has nothing to do with some lunatic shooting up a school, mall, grocery store. They’re completely different problems. Solving gang violence is objectively a harder problem to solve vs the mass shooting problem.

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When I was in highschool, my school had a rifle range. We shot .22 rifles there once a year for a week, learned gun safety and such.

We were allowed to bring guns to school, but we had to keep them in our vehicles. That was the only rule.

0 school shootings.

Why is it always the guns fault when these things happen? The only exception is when it's a cop that fires the gun.