Oh, I’m just in a mood tonight. Time to vent.
“In this age of unfettered violence, isn’t there something that can be done to prevent the sale of semi-automatic weapons to anyone not in a police agency? Surely a homeowner wishing to protect his or her family would find a revolver sufficient for such purpose.”
A revolver is a semiautomatic weapon, numbskull. The term means that the gun fires as quickly as you pull the trigger; you don’t need to manually chamber your next round.
Fully-automatic weapons– that is, machine guns– fire as long as the trigger is depressed. Private ownership of them has been illegal since the 1950s.
If any of those facts surprise you, you probably should do some basic research before voicing an opinion in the gun debate.
“I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, [the George W. Bush] administration has been the worst in history.” — former President Jimmy Carter
Begging your pardon, Mr. President, but didn’t your administration help depose the Shah of Iran (himself no sweetheart) and support his replacement, a radical Muslim whose publicly stated goal was to control a country in order to bootstrap jihad, and who wasted no time in taking 66 Americans hostage, holding 52 of them for almost a year and a half, until the very day you left office?
Not to say that you didn’t inherit your own problems, or didn’t face tough choices, but maybe a more supportive attitude would be more constructive in helping the current administration deal with issues that your administration helped create– or, at absolute best, failed miserably to solve.
“(My) Turn Offs (include): lack of intellegence.”
[draw breath to reply]
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[shake head, defeated; turn around and walk out]