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Gun Control & RKBA

benEzra

(12,148 posts)

10. That piece was criticizing broad ignorant statements about "assault weapons"...

Reply to upaloopa (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 19, 2015, 11:39 AM

Dec 2015

which are ordinary one-shot-at-a-time civilian rifles that kill fewer Americans annually than bicycles, but which a lot of journalists and fence-sitters think are military-grade automatic weapons. A lot of people also seem to think that "semiautomatic" means military bullet hoses rather than ordinary civilian guns, which is another blooper the op-ed criticized.

The dog breed analogy is actually a pretty good one.