They've switched to calling the SKS an "assault rifle" instead of an "assault weapon". Even further from the truth! The SKS was never an automatic. "semiautomatic assault rifle" is a contradiction in terms.
little things like truth and logic will not stop the brady bunch and liberals in general.
Boy, that sure didn't take them long. Hope they get as much traction out of this as they did Columbine. So that psycho was using a Saiga, the sporterized variant? NOT an SKS?
Lawrence Keane should have kept his pie-hole shut.
I think they are correct, these monstrous weapons have to be controlled. They should reinvigorate their most worthy national campaign to get these weapons off the street, er, out of the woods. Should make it a campaign issue in 2008 in fact. Something has got to be done. And the people will support it. Yeah, that's the ticket.
We lose the argument as soon as we concede, incorrectly, that the second amendment was about hunting.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
How can that be interpreted to mean "the government shall restrict the right of the people to bear arms to those appropriate only for hunting purposes"???
Since when is the US Constitution about recreation?
Oh that the great myth that the 2nd Ammendment is for preserving the right to hunt, oh that the lie would just fade away.
Of course, anti-gunners don't care about the 2nd Ammendment. They don't care about what they need to say to gut it, either. Lies? No problem. Misstatements? Sure. Pathetic guilt-trip tearjerker stories? Bring 'em on!
No use preaching to the choir, though. If you are reading this post, you are very likely in agreement.
Hinkley shot the wrong Brady.
Even if it were an SKS, while not a deer rifle, the SKS is a passable hunting rifle for smaller game. It's an excellent, and cheap varmit rifle.
Translated by any sane person, that belies the grabbees "high-powered assault weapon" sobriquet, without even addressing their bogus "automatic assault weapon" designation for a semi.
I guess all hunters could give up their firearms and switch to bow and arrow – or Wham-o sling shots.
Of course, the 2nd Amendment doesn’t really have much to do with hunting.
PLENTY of people hunt deer with SKSs in Mississippi.
MM
Maybe the liberals at Brady/MMM should worry about the uncivilized third world garbage Teddy Keennedy/Dems and RINOs allow too flood into America.
If Kerry and his commie pals would have allowed the military and Nixon to win JFK's Vietnam war that LBJ screwed up, the Hmong tribesman like Vang would be back in SE Asia.
"Since the ban's expiration, high-profile crimes involving assault weapons have already become more commonplace. Plano, Texas police are searching for members of a bank robbery gang that have opened fire on police with AK-47s, and that same weapon is believed to be the weapon of choice of a killer or killers who have shot eight people in West Palm Beach, Florida."
1. Where are their citations? After all, truth is the first casulty of liberal activism.
2. An AK-47, in fully automatic mode, or with an oversized clip, is still illegal. In semi-automatic mode it's not any more lethal than any number of "non-assult" offerings.
3. In any case, somone who has shot 8 people wouldn't have been converted to a straight-laced Lutheran pastor by the removal of the AK-47, let alone the renewal of that Assult Ban. Ditto for the bank robbers.
The only way that gun laws actually work is if we send in the Marines and the go door to door, breaking down doors and collecting weapons. And that seems to be the intent of some who proposed more gun laws (the rest just want to be re-elected to office).
Tim
The SKS fires the 7.62x39 cartridge which is similar in power to the .30-30 which has killed more deer than probably any other cartridge. To imply that the SKS is fine for killing people, but not deer also overlooks the similarities in the two animals.
OTOH, there's the Saving Private Ryan scenario. Remember the bunkers? The Flamethrowers? Don't shoot! Let 'em BURN!!
The Second Amendment is NOT about hunting food.
It is about KILLING the en enemies of the United States of America - both foreign AND domenstic.
That is what scares the left and lawyers more than anything.
Then what about that Hmong guy in Wisconsin? He went hunting with a so-called assault rifle. But, actually, if you read the 2nd Amendment very, very, carefully, it says nothing about hunting. It's there so the individual can defend himself or herself from whatever comes along. Most certainly the government will not do that.