Gun Control & RKBA

Straw Man

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37. The OP is central to the debate on an AWB.

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #33)

Mon Feb 19, 2018, 02:09 AM

Feb 2018

How can you fail to see that? People are clamoring for a ban on semi-auto AR-style rifles. The point of the OP is that such a ban will not have the result that its well-meaning proponents are hoping it will. His point is that when one "weapon of choice" is taken off the table, another will take its place. The slippery slope is a real thing, and the next call would be for a ban on pump and lever actions rilfes -- both 19-century technology.

Any attempt to ban pump-action rifles and shotguns would bring a huge backlash. It would force the "Fudds" (gun owners who primarily hunt and have no interest in non-traditional guns) to take a side, and that side wouldn't be the gun-control side. It would hammer the wedge of the gun issue far deeper into the split between moderate, rural Democrats and the national party.

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A pump action AR-15 style rifle [View all] Kaleva Feb 2018 OP

Gun porn is disgusting. And these days totally tone deaf. What a shocker! Fred Sanders Feb 2018 #1

+ a zillion NRaleighLiberal Feb 2018 #2

Thanks. Gunner logic is just plain weird. Where is Dr. Spock when you need him? Fred Sanders Feb 2018 #5

A pump action, in my view, is much better then a semi-auto Kaleva Feb 2018 #3

Whatever. Not much difference when you are dead, or grieving for the dead. Is it? Fred Sanders Feb 2018 #4

The AWB only banned semi-automatics. Did you support the AWB? Kaleva Feb 2018 #6

Here you go, post your gunnerjabber here: Fred Sanders Feb 2018 #7

I ask you again. Did you support the AWB which only banned semi-autos? Kaleva Feb 2018 #8

I'm confused. In that thread you refer people here. Here you refer people there. AtheistCrusader Feb 2018 #39

Why are you trying to silence people educating themselves on this? krispos42 Feb 2018 #9

Gun control advocacy draws self-appointed witchfinders the way Trump draws racists and idiots friendly_iconoclast Feb 2018 #19

You mean like the way gun slaughters bring out gun-humper trolls? Squinch Feb 2018 #21

There's a reason I don't hold these types of spittle flecked, self-righteous tirades against you lot friendly_iconoclast Feb 2018 #22

13 hours ago, you wrote muriel_volestrangler Feb 2018 #23

When someone not a member of DU management attempts to act as if they were... friendly_iconoclast Feb 2018 #25

Bullshit. A post commented about gun porn muriel_volestrangler Feb 2018 #28

Then alert on it if you feel so strongly about the matter. It'll either get pulled or it won't friendly_iconoclast Feb 2018 #29

It clearly doesn't break the SOP of the group Kaleva Feb 2018 #32

Yeah, that's back to the gun porn muriel_volestrangler Feb 2018 #33

How about "legitimate interest" for target competition? oneshooter Feb 2018 #35

Where did I say I like it? Kaleva Feb 2018 #36

The OP is central to the debate on an AWB. Straw Man Feb 2018 #37

Culture warriors, Right *or* Left, don't handle 'inconvenient' information very well friendly_iconoclast Feb 2018 #40

No hide from me. n/t demmiblue Feb 2018 #38

So that's a yes? Squinch Feb 2018 #24

'Ask the Administrators' awaits your question/requests: friendly_iconoclast Feb 2018 #26

I see it is a yes. Squinch Feb 2018 #31

All the accessories and parts for a regular AR-15 can be used on this one. krispos42 Feb 2018 #10

And nobody, except for the fringe, is talking about banning or even regulating pump actions. Kaleva Feb 2018 #11

Wait until they look scary... krispos42 Feb 2018 #13

MLK was murdered with a pump-action rifle samir.g Feb 2018 #12

Pump actions are not the weapon of choice for mass shooters. Kaleva Feb 2018 #14

They will be if we ban only semi-auto weapons samir.g Feb 2018 #15

What's your recommendation? Straw Man Feb 2018 #17

At ban anything that had a large magazine and can fire rapidly samir.g Feb 2018 #18

So ... 18th century technology? Straw Man Feb 2018 #20

The thing is that ... Straw Man Feb 2018 #16

the child's voice, briefly in the background . . . FraDon Feb 2018 #27

It adds a touch of authentic obscenity (nt) muriel_volestrangler Feb 2018 #34

That doesn't sound like Keanu Reeves samir.g Feb 2018 #30

A glimpse of the future Always Right Feb 2018 #41

They want to ban those also, 17rd magazine. n/t oneshooter Feb 2018 #42