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Personally, I'm sick to death of the media calling every single firearm a "weapon". It's the same as that stupid term "Assault weapon". Anything can be a weapon when wielded with malice; bricks, sharp sticks, cars, trucks, marshmallow sticks......etc., etc. "Weapon" as a descriptive word connotes danger and harm. Firearm is the proper word here. This Vet did not threaten anyone so his firearms are not weapons unless they are used in that way. I know, I know........this seems like a small thing but if you re-read that news story and pull the word "weapon" out and insert "firearm" it takes on a different tone. It's still ludicrous that they would do that, however.
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You bring up a good point. A few years back the wife and I rented a little cottage on the cape. I have no idea where the marshmallows came from but some of us were drinking and a marshmallow war ensued. I was forced out of the front door by someone taking shots at me from behind the couch. We were having a good exchange of marshmallow fire but we were throwing so hard the marshmallows would sail up over the target. I suppose we both figured this out at the same time and I timed my lunge through the door at the exact time he fired a shot. I was hit in the eye. I went don and went down hard. I screamed for a medic. "I'M HIT!!!!!" My bil dragged me out of the line of fire and quickly handed me a cold Bud. I was ok, just a little shaken.....
After that I started a campaign to stop these types of senseless wars with marshmallows. However all my attempts at trying to get these spontaneous events banned so now i just wear sunglasses...lmao....
It did hurt a little bit. Nothing another beer didn't take care of. We all went fishing later that night....we didn't catch anything but we went...
Seriously though, you are right. Anything can be turned into a weapon. Why is it so difficult for these morons to grasp the fact that a weapon is created out of how an item is used. ANY ITEM!!! Just libs trying to fulfill their anti agenda...
First They disarm the ones who already know how to use said weapons, and the rest will just follow along.
The Weimar Republics well-intentioned gun registry became a tool for evil.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/365103/how-nazis-used-gun-control-stephen-p-halbrook
History is repeating itself.
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Why did the VA send a "you can't have guns" letter to this guy? What's the backstory here?