Could the govenment ban guns?

Waynesville Daily Guide ^ | 24 March, 2009 | DawnDee Bostwick

[bmwcyle]

Could America elect an illegal alien?

[mad_as_he$$]

I double dog throw down dare them to.

[Still Thinking]

BTW, Could somebody give me a few really good examples of a tautology?

A sentence or phrase that, while technically correct, states the same thing twice and then equates them, thus conveying no meaning: "If you can't find what you're looking for, you're not looking in the right place." (Check for tautology if you find yourself tempted to reply "No $hit, Sherlock!")

Less severe: A sentence that conveys meaning but is unnecessarily redundant, as "I saw it with my own eyes".

Sometimes place names where the proper name is taken from a foreign language and the geographical feature part are in English are redundant. "Laguna Lake", "Glendale".

Essentially the opposite of an oxymoron like "Microsoft Works".

[OKC Patriot]

Hey, they passed a law and made us drive 55 when Jimma Carter was President! /sarcism

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thank you, Thinking.

Hey, Tax-chick, check out #43 for some good tautologies.

The ones I could think of are: "Survival of the fittest" (because "fittest" is implicitly defined as "those who survive," so it essentially means, "Survival of those who survive.")

And the old stand-by, "A true Scot does not put sugar on his oatmeal," in all its variations. ("But Angus MacPherson of Aberdeen does!" -- "Ach, but then he's no true Scot!")

[Still Thinking]

“I made a wrong mistake” — Yogi Berra

[Mrs. Don-o]

In the other sense of the word tautology, Paul McCartney's

"in this everchanging world in which we live in"

surely deserves a mention.

[Still Thinking]

And the old stand-by, "A true Scot does not put sugar on his oatmeal," in all its variations. ("But Angus MacPherson of Aberdeen does!" -- "Ach, but then he's no true Scot!")

Sounds like global warming.

[Mrs. Don-o]

You got it. Global “climate change”.

[Still Thinking]

That’s a good one.

Some acronyms are intentionally self-referencing, like GNU (for “Gnu’s Not Unix”; any letter would have worked as the first one)

[Tax-chick]

Excellent.

[2harddrive]

By the way, the Full Auto Ban Amendment to the 1986 “Firearms Owners Protection Act” never REALLY passed! It was just on a voice vote, and the Nays WAY outweighed the Yeas on the Amendment’s adoption ballot! I heard it! Tip O’Neal just PROCLAIMED that it passed, to the GASPS of many in attendence, and the minority Repubs could not challenge him because of the parlimentary rules in effect at the time! HONEST! History!

[marktwain]

“By the way, the Full Auto Ban Amendment to the 1986 “Firearms Owners Protection Act” never REALLY passed! It was just on a voice vote, and the Nays WAY outweighed the Yeas on the Amendment’s adoption ballot! I heard it! Tip O’Neal just PROCLAIMED that it passed, to the GASPS of many in attendence, and the minority Repubs could not challenge him because of the parlimentary rules in effect at the time! HONEST! History!”

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Yes, you are correct. I saw it on C-Span at the time it happened, and I even have it on tape (Beta!) somewhere. I do believe it was someone other than Tip O’Neil who held the gavel, though I am sure that he engineered it.

It was horrible to watch, a real rape of the legislative process. Just after freedom fighters had force through a bill to protect gun owners from the worst abuses of the 1968 bill, the Democrat leadership used Robert's Rules trickery and the lie to tack on a ban of future manufacture of common infantry arms in the U.S. for civilians. Some Republicans, thinking clearly, closed down the process before they could also ban manufacture of sound suppressors to protect hearing.

Tip O'Neil was an evil, evil man who violated his oath of office often and without remorse.