DeGette spokeswoman doubles down on congresswoman’s ignorance

Examiner ^ | 4/3/13 | David Codrea

[Nachum]

Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette, a lead sponsor of the federal ban on personal defense-capacity magazines showed a Denver Post forum she doesn’t have a clue as to what it is she wants to ban, and the “clarifying” statement made by her spokeswoman served to confirm the ignorance of both women.

“I will tell you these are ammunition, they’re bullets, so the people who have those now they’re going to shoot them, so if you ban them in the future, the number of these high capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won’t be any more available,” DeGette claimed when asked how a ban would help reduce violence committed with firearms.

“Oh no my car is out of gas! I better buy a new gas tank!” commentator “ParkerGuy” posted under the article, wittily illustrating the level of what should be criminal ignorance under

[nonliberal]

If you shoved this woman’s brain up a gnat’s ass, it would rattle around like a BB in a boxcar.

[TigersEye]

DeGette and her spokeswoman are 'Dr. Who stupid!' They have traveled in their
RETARDIS to realms of stupid beyond the known universe.

[muir_redwoods]

“I didn’t do I so stop talkin’ about my mother”

[Sooth2222]

"“I will tell you these are ammunition, they’re bullets, so the people who have those now they’re going to shoot them, so if you ban them in the future, the number of these high capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won’t be any more available,” DeGette claimed when asked how a ban would help reduce violence committed with firearms. "

If by "dramatically" she means "over eons"....true, eventually the springs will rust. But I think if people will actually vote for someone like her, we've crossed the Rubicon and we've now transformed the US into an idiocracy.

[smoothsailing]

[libstripper]

Having so little brain in so much empty head, it’s pretty sure nobody could kill her by shooting her in the head. The bullet would just fly through empty space, missing her mini-pea and doing no damage.

[La Lydia]

Sorry, I thought Boulder was in the 1st district. Forgot about Homo. Haven’t lived in Colorado for year. Degette really is a dim bulb.

[stormryter]

In other bad news, Time magazine will soon have a capacity of less than 10 pages so they will not be outlawed by the high capacity ban.
Oh, don’t complain, it made as much sense as that politicians statement.

[Nachum]

“I didn’t do I so stop talkin’ about my mother”

:)

[TurboZamboni]

[nonliberal]

The sad thing is that she isn’t even the dumbest member of Congress.

[averagemo]

Look at this exchange with one of her constituents....what a moron!!!! http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/04/outrageous-dem-rep-degette-mocks-denver-senior-says-youd-probably-be-dead-anyway-if-confronted-by-armed-criminals-video/

[Mom MD]

She replaced the famous patsy Schroeder. One vapid idiot replacing another......

[ExTexasRedhead]

Please God, save this nation from insane Liberals!

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

It is nice to see them line up all of the campaign material to be used against them.

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Wouldn’t it be great if there were an opposition party to challenge them?

[sarasmom]

LOL!
You are young.

Before the definitions “changed”, clips were what is now called magazines.
ie-I often taped together two 15 round banana clips for my .22 long while plinking.
It was annoying to have to individually load each round.

Then a fast way of loading 15 rounds into the clip was made, and for some idiotic reason, some marketing moron deemed that a "clip".
So my “clip” was no longer called a clip, it is now deemed a magazine.
If I hand load a 15 or 30 round magazine, it is not a clip.
Because clips are a string of connected rounds, that go into magazines.
No matter, they most always jammed, if over ten rounds are loaded, no matter what you call them.
Unless you have a really expensive gun.

I prefer a snub nosed revolver, hot loaded with plastique tipped rounds.

It's never once jammed. I've heard there are clips for them now....

[Graybeard58]

Assemblywoman Patricia Eddington claiming she wanted to ban .50 caliber rifles because they shoot an "incendiary...heat seeking device [and] you don’t shoot deer with a bullet that size. If you do, you could cook it at the same time.”

Ya gotta love it.

[PLMerite]

Stupid should be punishable by bad things. And not in a random, Darwin kind of way.

[Avid Coug]

You gotta give DeGette some credit—she clearly has figured out that “ammunition” refers to “bullets”, and those are the thingys that you shoot.

[ConservativeInPA]

Nothing personal, but I am not young and you have no idea what you are talking about. Rifles, shotguns and pistols have magazines. Some detachable, some not. Magazines for AR-15s, what the article refers, are detachable. You can hand load the magazines or you can use stripper clips. 5.56mm ammo is typically stored in ammo cans (in quantity). It can be stored as loose rounds or alternatively in bandoliers which contain clips of 10 rounds of 5.56 ammo. The old style bandoliers had 7 pockets that held two clips each. The new style bandoliers have four pockets holding three clips each. The pocket size aligns to magazine capacity. At one time, M16 and AR-15 magazine standard capacity was 20, hence two clips. Today, standard capacity is 30 rounds, hence three clips per pocket.

Other weapons, such as the M1 use clips as well. Whether a M1, M16, AR-15 or M4, clips are used to load magazines. I am not aware of clips being used to load pistol or shotgun magazines. Yes, shotguns have magazines. That tube "thingy" at the front of semi-auto and pump shotguns is a magazine. It is also true that lever action rifles have magazines - another tube "thingy". There is no such thing as an attached or detachable clip.

I am not trying to come off rude. My original post was making fun of a liberal that didn't know jack about the thing they were trying to ban. Then the liberal comes back and proves she had no idea about what she was trying to ban.

Personally, I don't get hung up in everyday speech about clips and mags, but when it comes to a liberal trying to take way my rights or someone calling me young, I get a little technical. For what it is worth, my birthday is tomorrow, so I am a little sensitive about the age thing.