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jimmy the one

(2,720 posts)
5. quickly recognized acronym
Thu Dec 10, 2015, 01:16 PM
Dec 2015

doubledee: ....Groucho was a funny and wise fellow but your reasoning here is not so much that.

Wasn't trying to be funny.

DDee: No, sorry, but the use of that term is explosive and designed, not to accurately describe the weapon, but to create a mind set in the people reading that term.

You should be sorry I agree; obviously you didn't comprehend what I even wrote. I clearly said the 'term' assault rifle was not to accurately describe the weapon, but that the term 'assault rifle' has morphed into a quickly recognized acronym (kinda) used to describe the high end of rifle lethality, rifles which were generally designed for mass shooting on battlefields (ie m16 from ar15).
That you propagate far rightwing propaganda that the motivation behind the term is solely to convoke these rifle's lethality for fearmongering, seems to bring you out of the closet as pro gun.
Going out on a fairly strong limb, enjoy your brief stay here, can't say I'll miss you.

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