Nightcrawler
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I'm supposed to be in class now, but my alarm didn't go off in time.
In any case, I was at the cafeteria, eating lunch with a couple of guys from my hall. They're all like, "Well, I think it's okay if you want to own handguns, rifles, and semiautos, but not assault weapons. I asked the one gentleman if he knew what an assault weapon was. He said he did because he was in the military. I told him it's a select-fire rifle firing an intermediate cartridge. He says, "right, like the AR-15". Try as I might to tell him otherwise, he would NOT believe that you can't go to a gun show and buy a select fire AR or AK. "I've seen them there!" he says. I told him that they're either semiautos or pre-86 rifles costing thosuands of dollars.
He was in Army Intel, he says, and they once went on the internet and figured you could buy all the parts (including depleted uranium, apparently) to build an armor-piercing minigun.
I was trying to avoid semantics, though. I was asked why I "need" an "assault weapon". I told him that I'LL decide what I need and don't need, thank you. And he tells me that "that's your freedom of THOUGHT, but not choice" or something like that.
I might have to work on this guy, but don't see him enough to really do it. He is a gunower, apparently, as it started when he was talking about going shooting this weekend. Handguns are fine, he says, just not "assault weapons".
I honestly don't understand these people. It's like saying you can have a Ford Probe but not a Mustang because nobody really NEEDS a sports car.
Going to get my blood pressure up, is what. But at least my cholestorol is down; half my mozzerella sticks didn't have any flippin' cheese in them.
In any case, I was at the cafeteria, eating lunch with a couple of guys from my hall. They're all like, "Well, I think it's okay if you want to own handguns, rifles, and semiautos, but not assault weapons. I asked the one gentleman if he knew what an assault weapon was. He said he did because he was in the military. I told him it's a select-fire rifle firing an intermediate cartridge. He says, "right, like the AR-15". Try as I might to tell him otherwise, he would NOT believe that you can't go to a gun show and buy a select fire AR or AK. "I've seen them there!" he says. I told him that they're either semiautos or pre-86 rifles costing thosuands of dollars.
He was in Army Intel, he says, and they once went on the internet and figured you could buy all the parts (including depleted uranium, apparently) to build an armor-piercing minigun.
I was trying to avoid semantics, though. I was asked why I "need" an "assault weapon". I told him that I'LL decide what I need and don't need, thank you. And he tells me that "that's your freedom of THOUGHT, but not choice" or something like that.
I might have to work on this guy, but don't see him enough to really do it. He is a gunower, apparently, as it started when he was talking about going shooting this weekend. Handguns are fine, he says, just not "assault weapons".
I honestly don't understand these people. It's like saying you can have a Ford Probe but not a Mustang because nobody really NEEDS a sports car.
Going to get my blood pressure up, is what. But at least my cholestorol is down; half my mozzerella sticks didn't have any flippin' cheese in them.
But I'm sure there is some do gooder who is trying to outlaw those too...................
