Busting gun-culture myths that always surface after mass shootings; let’s get real
Uvalde, Texas school shooting spurs spurious rhetoric on why to do nothing. Here’s how to confront it | Commentary
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AR-15s aren’t assault rifles’
One of the most common tactics used by gun culturists is to try to belittle their opponents’ knowledge of firearms.
By their lights, anyone who calls an AR-15 or one of its many variants an “assault rifle” is uninformed and not worth listening to.
They’ll tell you the only “real” assault rifles are “selective fire,” which gives the user the choice of shooting multiple bullets with one trigger pull, while the AR-15 fires only one bullet per pull.
And they almost always point out that AR doesn’t stand for assault rifle, but for Armalite rifle, after the company that originated it.
The AR does stand for Armalite, but that’s about as true as this myth gets. The gun was developed under a Pentagon bid specification — I’ve read it — specifically seeking a “semi-automatic assault rifle” for troops.
Armalite sold the design to Colt, which cranked out two versions — the military M-16 in selective fire and the civilian AR-15 in semi-automatic.
AR-15s and their copycats — along with cheaper Chinese knockoffs of the Soviet AK-47 — were called assault rifles in gun catalogs, gun magazines and by owners until well into the 2000s.
But the term got a bad reputation after assault rifles became the weapon of choice for random mass shootings, because they’re the most capable and formidable weapons a civilian can buy.
In 2009, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a gun industry trade association, coined a new and softer term — “modern sporting rifle” — and demanded everybody use it.
Gun magazines and lots of mainstream news sources, including the Associated Press which I ordinarily respect, have changed their style to refer to assault rifles by more warm-and-fuzzy euphemisms.
I won’t.
AR-15s aren’t assault rifles’
One of the most common tactics used by gun culturists is to try to belittle their opponents’ knowledge of firearms.
By their lights, anyone who calls an AR-15 or one of its many variants an “assault rifle” is uninformed and not worth listening to.
They’ll tell you the only “real” assault rifles are “selective fire,” which gives the user the choice of shooting multiple bullets with one trigger pull, while the AR-15 fires only one bullet per pull.
And they almost always point out that AR doesn’t stand for assault rifle, but for Armalite rifle, after the company that originated it.
The AR does stand for Armalite, but that’s about as true as this myth gets. The gun was developed under a Pentagon bid specification — I’ve read it — specifically seeking a “semi-automatic assault rifle” for troops.
Armalite sold the design to Colt, which cranked out two versions — the military M-16 in selective fire and the civilian AR-15 in semi-automatic.
AR-15s and their copycats — along with cheaper Chinese knockoffs of the Soviet AK-47 — were called assault rifles in gun catalogs, gun magazines and by owners until well into the 2000s.
But the term got a bad reputation after assault rifles became the weapon of choice for random mass shootings, because they’re the most capable and formidable weapons a civilian can buy.
In 2009, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a gun industry trade association, coined a new and softer term — “modern sporting rifle” — and demanded everybody use it.
Gun magazines and lots of mainstream news sources, including the Associated Press which I ordinarily respect, have changed their style to refer to assault rifles by more warm-and-fuzzy euphemisms.
I won’t.
She's so fucking dumb she should be a politician
10 injured, 3 law enforcement officials hurt after gunfire erupts in Charleston, S.C.
Shots were fired in the area of 41 South Street around 11:40 p.m. Monday, the site of a vacant lot where a large party was taking place with more than 100 people believed to be in attendance, Charleston Police Chief Luther T. Reynolds said in a news conference Tuesday afternoon.
Shots were fired in the area of 41 South Street around 11:40 p.m. Monday, the site of a vacant lot where a large party was taking place with more than 100 people believed to be in attendance, Charleston Police Chief Luther T. Reynolds said in a news conference Tuesday afternoon.
Agency: 1 dead, 7 injured in Oklahoma festival shooting
Authorities said a 26-year-old man was in custody after one person was killed and seven people were injured in a shooting early Sunday at an outdoor festival in eastern Oklahoma, where witnesses described frantic people running for cover amid gunfire.
Authorities said a 26-year-old man was in custody after one person was killed and seven people were injured in a shooting early Sunday at an outdoor festival in eastern Oklahoma, where witnesses described frantic people running for cover amid gunfire.
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ohhhh suck it you dumb ammosexuals!
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Month before Buffalo shooting, poll finds, 7 in 10 Republicans believed in 'great replacement' ideas
Weeks before the massacre of mostly Black victims in Buffalo, a poll found, a majority of Republicans believed ideas making up "replacement theory."
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"Conspiracy theory":Month before Buffalo shooting, poll finds, 7 in 10 Republicans believed in 'great replacement' ideas
Weeks before the massacre of mostly Black victims in Buffalo, a poll found, a majority of Republicans believed ideas making up "replacement theory."www.usatoday.com
DNC announces initiative targeting Latino voters
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced Wednesday that it would launch an outreach program targeting Latino voters. The program, known as Adelante, will “build on Democrats’ intensive out…
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“let’s reach out to latino voters”"Conspiracy theory":
DNC announces initiative targeting Latino voters
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced Wednesday that it would launch an outreach program targeting Latino voters. The program, known as Adelante, will “build on Democrats’ intensive out…
omg they’re killing da whites!!
So you're not even familiar with the conspiracy you're complaining about? Sweet.
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The Great Replacement (French: Grand Remplacement), also known as the replacement theory,[1][2] is a white nationalist[3] far-rightconspiracy theory[4][5][6] disseminated by French author Renaud Camus. The original theory states that, with the complicity or cooperation of "replacist" elites,[a][4][7] white European populations are being demographically and culturally replaced with non-white peoples—especially from Muslim-majority countries—through mass migration, demographic growth and a drop in the birth rate of white Europeans.[4][8][9] Since then, similar claims have been advanced in other national contexts, notably in the United States. Mainstream scholars have dismissed these claims as rooted in a misunderstanding of demographic statistics and premised upon an unscientific, racist worldview.[10][11][12]
the idea is “they” (usually my ppl) are purposefully lowering white birth rates through policy and “replacing” them with “coloureds”, usually blacks, muslims or hispanics.
spare me
@Lars, I didn't know you were referenced in the Oxford Dictionary!
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sweet, white ppl trying to deny my people’s lived experience and tell me how not racist they are. check your privileges bruv. we pay attention to these things, and with good reason
You're Canadian. Canadians are the whitest people on the planet.
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goes back to the late 1800s if you actually want to trace it pre-camus
White replacement theory’s antisemitic origins
White replacement theory (also known as white genocide theory or “the great replacement”) has its roots in antisemitic ideology. Popularized by white
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@mysticmac are you a great replacer?
I am great.
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you should really learn about the 130 years of replacement theory before you start accusing people of unfamiliarity bruv
Replacement theory isn't providing the inspiration for any racist massacres, I was told this by a clown.
Never mind that every day I drive past the mosque one of them shot up, and that he released a massive manifesto literally titled "The Great Replacement", where he explains at great length that he's murdering all these strangers to draw attention to the coming demographic replacement of white people.
So on one side there's that, and on the other hand there's clowns pathetically shilling for liars. But hey, if a clown says it ain't so, then reality can just go fuck itself, I guess.
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