Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Chief dismisses ‘silly debate’ over media machine gun conflation

No one has argued that a semi-auto Uzi is “not really a dangerous gun,” and for the chief to advance that assertion is unfounded and absurd. I challenge him to produce documentation that anyone really told him that, or else admit he is misrepresenting things. What he was asked -- and all he was asked -- in the original tweet from this correspondent was “For the record: Is it a semi-auto or a select fire.” With major players like NBC, CBS, The Los Angeles Times and others telling untold millions it was a “submachine gun,” it’s a valid question.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

ALL guns are machines, period. It's a simple fact. ALL guns are "dangerous", period. It's a simple fact. The nomenclature can change, from firearm to gun or from machine gun to automatic to select fire to assault rifle for instance, but the facts remain the same.

ATF played congress in saying that one trigger pull to one shot was the "defined" line. An imaginary line it is demonstrated by the development of slide fire stocks. What is the result? LESS "safety" is produced by "laws" created supposedly in the name of thus so called "safety ".

Who will argue that slide fires are "more safe" than select fires"?

Now, my question in this(in the best Hillary voice I can muster - at this point, what difference does it make?

When a killer uses a gun to kill, what difference does it make if it was semi or select? What difference does it make that he even used a firearm? The POINT to be addressed is THAT he and HE ALONE killed! The "how" and even the "why" are subsidiaries and mostly IRRELEVANT. Those things aren't really germane. So why the focus on those things. Oh yeah, the focus is on THOSE things because the GOAL is to remove focus from the actual germane point - individual PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY!

Distraction and diversion. That's what loyalists in both media AND law enforcement are reduced to. All in the effort to avoid the one thing that truly matters - personal responsibility for actions taken and choices made.

Anonymous said...

Anon @ 1048 has described it perfectly. Personal responsibility is the only factor to consider.