“Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects,” said, Will Rogers. Boy was he right, especially when it comes to guns. Recently I listened to a talk radio show where the host was talking to a state senator in Florida. The senator was ranting and raving about how an AR 15 “assault” rifle can file 700 rounds per minute. Actually the military version, a real “assault” rifle can fire automatically. Civilian models are not automatic fire. The magazine, which holds the bullets, will only hold 30 rounds. This means that a shooter using a civilian model would have to carry 23 magazines, shoot them all by pulling the trigger once for each bullet, all in 60 seconds.
Automatic weapons are for military use only. There are some few civilians that can get a license for certain firearms that will fire automatically, but they are few and require special licensing. Again, ignorance about a subject, that obviously the senator knows nothing about.
I can’t count the number of “gun control” advocates that have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to guns. They just want control.
If you want to stop mass shootings, don’t worry about guns. You have to change people, by instilling in them a sense of right and wrong. And, a sense of fear of the consequences. When someone commits a crime, any crime, they get punished. Really punished.
Old Will also said, “When ignorance gets started, it knows no bounds.”
I doubt he would believe how far it goes today.
PMO
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