Posted on 07/15/2014 9:18:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Via Charles Cooke, is this the worst listicle ever or the greatest?
You’re expecting a list of different makes and models, I know. But look:
2. Revolvers
Revolvers, named for their rotating chambered cylinder, placed second in the ATF’s ranking of guns found at crime scenes more than 46,000 recovered in 2012, the most recent year for which statistics were kept.
Some grenade launchers, shotguns, and rifles also have rotating barrels, but the term “revolver” is generally used to describe handguns. Revolver types include single and double-action firing mechanisms, the latter of which does not require a cocking action separate from the trigger pull.
In order: “Pistols,” “revolvers,” “rifles,” “shotguns,” and “derringers,” i.e. virtually every form of small arms known to man. That’s about as informative as a list touting the world’s five deadliest animals that goes “mammals,” “insects,” “reptiles,” “amphibians,” and “fish.” You can’t promise your reader the cheap suspense involved in clicking through each item of a countdown only to deliver something as broad and doofy as “RIFLES.” Has BuzzFeed taught us nothing? But, arguably, that’s what makes this great, right? The point here, I assume, is to use the list format to emphasize that all guns, even itty bitty derringers, are dangerous. There’s no suspense; they’re all deadly. Gotta ban ‘em all to be on the safe side. There’s a certain honesty in that uncommon to most gun-grabbers’ “no, really, I’m just worried about ‘assault weapons’” dissembling.
But wait — that’s actually what makes this terrible, right? The reason most lefties take an incrementalist approach on guns, starting with scary-looking AR-15s, is because they know Americans are too comfortable with guns and gun culture generally to support a full ban right out of the gate. Moving this Overton window will take time and great effort. Better to focus on a few specific weapons, build opposition, and get them banned so that the public slowly gets used to the idea of certain guns disappearing from the market. Then, when that ban achieves nothing — as everyone understands it won’t — declare that it hasn’t gone far enough and that more weapons need to go. You don’t jump into this fray by trying to freak people out about common semiautomatics. You work up to it. This is a listicle from 2050 transported magically, and foolishly, into the past.
I wonder what the ATBO (Alcohol, Tobacco and Blunt Objects) list looks like. Blunt objects beat guns and drunk drivers as the most dangerous weapons in America every year.
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1). Ford
2). GM
3). Chevy
4). Toyota
5). Volkswagen
The 5 Most Dangerous Roads in America
1). Streets
2). Avenues
3). Highways
4). Roads
5). Parkways
The 5 Most Dangerous Buildings in America
1). Brick buildings
2). Steel buildings
3). Wooden buildings
4). Concrete buildings
5). Rock buildings
The 5 Most Dangerous Types of Waters in America
1). Ponds
2). Streams
3). Rivers
4). Lakes
5). Oceans
Warner Todd Huston on July 15, 2014 at 5:51 PM
I wouldn’t worry too much about Rolling Stone, Vet. RS has been sending unsolicited issues to my young daughter for years. Occasionally we get a sad “Would you like re-subscribe?” letter. The letters and magazines go just about directly from the mail box to the recycling tub.
My wife used to be a talent agent and read it, but it never appealed to me and my daughter tells me it’s about as popular with hipsters as 501 Levis. In other words, they can give it away but RS is following Time, Newsweek & Life to the place old magazines go to die.
Is my Benjamin NP .22 pellet gun a “rifle” or an “assault weapon”?
Very funny. Ya done good!
You forgot 5 gallon buckets.
The only interesting things that came out of there were from Hunter S. Thompson and he’s long dead.
Silly question. 1) It comes is scary black. 2) It has a pistol grip. 3) It is a rifle.
Ergo, for all these reasons in the mind of a liberal it must be an "assault rifle." Heck, it can have a high powered scope mounted on it, that makes it a doubly bad "sniper rifle." Or to a libtard maybe an "assault sniper rifle." ;-)
I have an old Daisy BB gun from my childhood days. Does it count?
Duct tape.
Electrical tape.
Surgical tape.
Scotch tape.
Crime scene tape.
Air Rifles have progressed from my .22 Benjamin ten pump pellet gun I saved up for when I was 12 years old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuqXlJbbxtE
Interesting and revealing classification system from them. It reminds me of gun-hater Stephen King writing about a .38 revolver. It sounds like he’s thinking of an ubiquitous Smith & Wesson police special.
One character hands the gun to another saying, “It’s loaded, but the safety’s on.”
Heh.
These lists do tend to write themselves...
The 5 Most Dangerous Media Outlets in America
1). MSNBC
2). New York Times
3). Washington Post
4). CBS
5). PBS
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/pictures/the-5-most-dangerous-guns-in-america-20140714
Where’s Hunter S Thompson when you need him?
There’s also three kinds of tards:
1. Custard
2. Mustard
3. Rolling Stone author tard
In the liberal mind, of course. It is silenced, it holds more than a handful of rounds at a time.
It’s both; it probably has a rifled barrel, and it could be used to assault some one or some thing.
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