I don't have a 30 round mag for hunting. I have it to help insure that I can out-gun anyone who tries to harm my family or myself. When I slam in the mag and hit the bolt release I want as many shots available as possible before the rifle becomes useless. I want to drive away or kill the bad guy. I don't want to have a fair fight. I want to win. Period. It's for killing humans. I'm completely willing to admit that. That's what it was designed for and it can do it very well. I hope I never ever have to use it against a human being but I want the option if necessary. I'm sure I would throw-up after words. I'm actually a tiny bit scared of it but it's respectful fear of what it is capable of and I treat it accordingly. It's a tool. A very dangerous tool to be sure but still a tool. Handle it foolishly and it will kill me. Treat it with respect and it will work for me.
People who want to take my gun are saying 'You are too stupid and/or irresponsible to be trusted with such power. You are just like a child. Give that to us before you hurt yourself!' That's what I hear, at least.
Recently Defeated Connecticut Mental Health Bill May Have Stopped Friday’s Shooter
aren’t 30 shot magazines prone to jamming?
Don’t trust Sen. Munchkin.
flicking through channels due to Gretchen Carlson being so over the top and acting like a dizt.
I saw MSNBC and CNN pushing this gun control and going after Dems which are pro gun.
They are doing this so tey can say this is a partisan issue and republicans care nothing about dead kids when it fails.
It’s about time the left looked at their own social policies as they started this crap 40 years ago and society has gone down as respect over those years, coincidence, I think not.
boys need a father and a mother, they need discipline and guidence not to be ignored because the mother is tired from work and her career and the father is fed up of a boring life.
Yes media you are part of the problem not the solution
He has six years to say and do anything he wants. Screw the voters. He doesnt need you until then.......
“”He later added, “I don’t know anyone in the hunting or sporting arena that goes out with an assault rifle,” he said. “I don’t know anybody that needs 30 rounds in the clip to go hunting. I mean, these are things that need to be talked about.””””
Does this tard know that the Second Amendment does not have anything to do with hunting?
It’s not about hunting.
What a weasel.
Ah, yes, The "hunting" and "need" argument brought in to screw the 2nd Amendment again.
Damn these people!
I don’t carry a 30 round magazine to build a snowman, either.
And that’s just as relevant to this discussion as “hunting”.
And why does anyone “need” a 30 round magazine?
Simple.
If it ever comes to having to use a gun to defend your life, and your adversary has a gun, then if you run out of ammo before your adversary is out or dead, then you will die.
We shouldn’t have to defend the defensive purpose of these things. Period.
Well Joe evidently you don’t know as much about hunting as would have folks believe. If you did then you would know that there are numerous variations of the AR 10 /15 platform that are designed specifically for hunting. And you would also know that Winchester has recently offered a .223 round specifically designed for boar and deer hunting.
But then you wouldn’t be able to posture for the camera then would you.
Farg’n POS
idiot tries to change the subject, its about having weapons equal to our military....but he knows that and is playing dumb. If its just about magazine capacity what does he think of .50 caliber sniper rifle with 5 shot magazine?
>>“I want to call all our friends in the NRA, sit down and have this discussion,”
Has he called on all his friends in the gay community to sit down and discuss doing something about Penn State?
No? Then sit down and shut up.
obviously a senator who thinks constitutional right are about food hunting.
at some point these rinos need a serious primary removal.
If is none of their businss as to what anyone needs.
What happens to the left when anyone can 3d print any “X” size magazine?
No sociopath (like politicians or Media Mob reporters) will obey any law.
Read the article. Manchin got really snotty with the reporter, repeatedly calling her “Honey”, and telling her she was stupid. I imagine his attitude was caused by the mass of criticism he got from his constituents when he flip-flopped on them. What a typical lying RAT.
Can assure you that, if this was the 1920’s, Manchin (whose background as a store owner/grocer puts him on the side of the “owners” so to speak) would be on the side of the machine politics of WV. This machine knows no party— except democrat (and in recent memory the “one bottle one vote” moonshine machine).
Manchin gravitates to the rural voters (white) who put him there despite his being a tool of the mine companies (who still have their own gun thugs vs. workers— and NO I’m not a union type). These people hunt for FOOD— because they have to, as well as being on the teat of govt for food stamps. So THAT is why his argument. WV is a FEUDAL state, owned outright by the Rockefellers in mineral rights.
And, btw, the LAST time this “assault weapon” issue came up, Senator Jay Rockefeller in 1994 was for the assault weapon ban-— ALL THE WHILE he had in his DC mansion- a Colt AR-15 (and maybe still does).
Here is a series on this episode:
“Link is dead, but the text lives on:
HYPOCRISY - Many may have forgotten that in 1994 Senator Rockefeller was caught in a slight scuffle with DC police over gun control laws. The following account appears on the Future of Freedom Foundation web site:
http://www.ff.org/freedom/0496d.asp
“Yet, as with most holy wars, some of the warriors are not without the taint of hypocrisy. Senator John Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, was a fervent supporter of the crime bill and the assault-weapons ban. A few days after the bill passed the Senate, the Charleston (WV) Daily Mail reported from Washington.
“If burglars are casing big houses around here, they may want to give wide berth to the Rockefeller mansion. The occupant is packing heat and knows how to use it. Senator Jay Rockefeller disclosed that for the past 25 years, he has been the proud owner of a Colt AR-15, a so-called assault weapon used in Vietnam. Rockefeller keeps the rifle in his Washington home.
“This was news to the Washington police, which ban the ownership of AR-15s in the District of Columbia. After Rockefeller was told that having such a gun in the District was a crime, he ‘remembered’ that he actually kept the gun stored in northern Virginia. Rockefeller also claimed that he was unaware that the District of Columbia banned such guns. Rockefeller has private security guards around his lavish Washington home, and the Senate office buildings where he works are heavily guarded by well-fed Capitol policemen. Yet he still feels entitled to own a gun that he wanted to severely restrict other Americans from being able to purchase.”
Your last paragraph pretty much sums up the entire Democrat mantra on every topic they have an opinion about. You aren’t alone — I hear it too.
Manchin is one of the biggest hypocrites who ever lived. He claims he’s “pro-life”, “pro traditional” marriage, he voted against lifting DADT, and he ran AGAINST ObamaCare. So can anyone tell me why this character is still a democrat and supports the most pro-abortion, anti-God president in the history of the country. WV is a red state and if he decided to switch parties he will be elected as a republican. The man is a hypocrite of the first degree. He has nothing in common with the party he belongs to, but still remains a democrat.