My friend and colleague streiff at RedState generally berated these anti-gun comments by Hillary Clinton earlier today, but I want to really drill down on something – look, I know that too much belief in gun control apparently causes neurological degeneration, but this is absurd.
Hillary Clinton slammed the Supreme Court as “wrong on the Second Amendment” and called for reinstating the assault weapons ban during a small private fundraiser in New York last week, according to audio of her remarks obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
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“The idea that you can have an open carry permit with an AK-47 over your shoulder walking up and down the aisles of a supermarket is just despicable,” she said.
…The AK-47 – and, having listened to the audio; that’s what Hillary Clinton said – is a fully automatic weapon. Let me put it this way: if you legally own a fully-automatic rifle like, say, the AK-47 (and you can actually do that, in some parts of the country), you are not going to be carrying it to the supermarket, largely because it is a vintage item that cost more than your car. For that matter: your fingerprints and photograph is on file at BATFE. You have undergone a background check with the FBI. You are, in other words, highly unlikely to suddenly snap and start shooting people.
Hillary Clinton either knows this, and is deliberately conflating the AK-47 with the AR-15 (a semi-automatic rifle that LOOKS REALLY SCARY TO LIBERALS, MAN) because she knows that her audience is dumb enough to buy it; or she doesn’t know this, because she is as dumb as her audience. Take your pick! Either way, Hillary Clinton’s just wrong. And saying stupid things that will only get the desired reaction from people who are themselves stupid.
Via Hot Air.
Moe Lane (crosspost)
PS: There is no longer any such thing as a private event where one may speak freely. Too many recording devices, too much incentive to get a recording. You can either move with the times and accept that you’re always on the record, or you can get caught telling stupid lies to people who want to hear them. There is no third option.
Truth be told, there’s plenty of semi auto AK variants, think even those that meet CA laws about pistol grips and the like.
Meh. To lefties and journos (but I repeat myself), all longarms are either AR-15s or AK-47s.
The Washington Navy Yard shooter used a Remington pump shotgun. The same model my dad bought in the early 1960’s.
The Sandy Hook jackwagon could have walked into that school with a pair of machetes and done as much carnage.
Actually the higher priced and the better machined the weapon the more fit it is for distance/target shooting. For massacre a simple pump shotgun is best because you are going to go in close, and that means a shotgun and a handgun together. A sawed off pump shotgun like the WNY guy had and an M1911 clone for close up work, and….
Maybe I should stop now.
Probably just throwing some red tofu to the ignorati.
Gee, Hillary; I spent time surrounded by 19-23 year olds that had real assault rifles and even fully automatic grenade launchers yet nothing happened. That tells me that it’s the person not the weapon.
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And yes; belief in gun control causes neurological damage. These people think that laws are magic spells and speaking the right one into existence will suddenly make criminals behave themselves.
They aren’t brain damaged, they’re just white supremacists. They know that as long as they pretend they believe, they can keep minority neighborhoods disarmed, so they can burn them down whenever they need the political return.
True enough since every new restriction on guns makes it tougher for poor people to get protection. And given that gun control laws in this country got started because the KKK didn’t like blacks shooting them…
The federal assault weapon ban was allowed to die because 1) Democrats had lost control of Congress, in large part because voters hated the assault weapon ban, and 2) Attorney General Janet Reno conducted a study on the law’s effectiveness in reducing crime as required by the law, and found it to be essentially useless.
So go ahead, Hillary, and poke that bear.