05-01-2019, 09:59 PM
(04-30-2019, 06:59 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(04-30-2019, 10:12 AM)David Horn Wrote:Dude, any gun/weapon can be used strictly for defense. Guns/ weapons aren't for offensive use only as you say.(04-28-2019, 06:28 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: ... Me, I have a right to defend myself and other people as well and a right to purchase an elite weapon that is capable of doing that task. Now, Eric should be able to understand that real America isn't going to allow itself to be over run by a bunch of foreigners. A small portion of Blue America maybe, but not the rest of the nation. The rest of the country ain't that stupid.
Your "elite weapon" is just that: a weapon. It's not intended as a defensive arm. It's strictly offensive. The round fired by an AR-15, or any of the many lookalikes, travels fast and spins slowly. What it strikes is shattered, and the slow spin makes the unstable round into a tumbling death-dealer, tearing bone and tissue in ways that are difficult, if not impossible, to repair. Injuries tend to be permanent. Death is highly likely, even for hits in non-critical areas of the body.
No, you should NEVER have a right to one of these!
I remember seeing diagrams of illegal firearms. The one I most remember was a gun made to look like something else -- let us say a walking stick or a camera. Another, I recall was a gun rigged to fire from within something that hides it, such as a lunch pail or a shoe. Those are your basic "James Bond" or "Get Smart" weapons, the sorts that can be written into a film script or TV show. (OK, the fictional Maxwell Smart has a phone, and not a gun, in his shoe, but a KAOS agent might).
The umbrella that a Bulgarian secret agent used for injecting ricin into a dissident that the Commie regime wanted 'removed with extreme prejudice' would seem to fit into that category, even if, strictly speaking, it is not a firearm.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.