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Deadly Falsehoods About the Orlando Shooting and Gun Control
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As detailed by ABC News, the killer used a “.223 AR-style Sig Sauer MCX semiautomatic rifle and a Glock 17 [9 mm] handgun.” Like the Sig MCX, the Glock 17 is a semi-automatic firearm, which means it fires one bullet for each pull of the trigger.
In stark contrast, the “most common military” firearms, as explained in the book Military Technology, are fully “automatic rifles and machine guns” that fire multiple bullets “with a single pull of the trigger.” A key advantage of these guns is that soldiers don’t need to aim them with pinpoint accuracy to hit the enemy. Instead, they can “point the weapon in the general direction of” their adversaries and mow them down en masse. |
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laker1
(6/25/2016)
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| So we as citizens and members of the home militia should have a disadvantage when faced with single or multiple threats. What is wrong with select fire weapons? Why is that? So you don't trust us so why should we trust you? |
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jac
(6/25/2016)
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"Instead, they can “point the weapon in the general direction of” their adversaries and mow them down en masse."
That's not how it works. Even with a machine gun, you still have to aim. If you just point in the general direction, you will miss and most likely get killed by aimed return fire.
I shudder to thing of the carnage that would result if a real rifleman started shooting people. |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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