wannabeagunsmith
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So, I go to a public high school. Today, a new book for us to read in english called Fallen Angles. It is an anti-Vietnam War book, no surprise, being as we have a very liberal school and this isn't the first bit of indoctrination we have received. Anyhow, so before we read the book my teacher deciedes to go on a bit of a political rant about the war that happened decades ago basically saying America is stupid for wanting to stop the spread of communism and that if the people of Vietnam wanted it, who were we to try and stop them (never mind the fact that the people of the south didn't want it at all for obvious reasons)! This isn't the end however, and soon it was time to go over 'military terms' that we would happen across in the book. So he starts talking about the weapons of 'nam and then he gets to the M-16. He says, in his words, "the M16 is an assault rifle that fires semi-automatically, which means that if you hold down the trigger, bullets will keep firing until the clip is empty." SO I raised my hand to try and set him straight but he IGNORED me and went on to the next item, which was 'clip'. Well as you can guess, it should have been phrased MAGAZINE but to hell with it I suppose. Anyhow, that was my day. I am really glad I have autoshop for the last half of the day so I don't have to deal with their crap all day long. I am not looking forward to the future when my classmates run the country..that is for sure.