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now if you were to say m16, m60, m249 you know full auto weapons.... or lets say c4 explosive...then you may be using the correct term
but instead you lie and call a small caliper ar15 a WMD.....
Isn't it great when the ignorant who know nothing about firearms want to dictate what we can, and can't have. They ignore all the information we've given them on the AR-15, and its puny, little small game round. Yes, it can kill, but there are much more powerful guns out there. The AR-15, nor any other semi auto rifle are no WMD's. That's just the emotion of the Left for you. Totally irrational, and ignorant of the facts.
Her name is Emma. Her silence for 6 minutes represented the 17 kids who were killed within that time frame. It wasn't propaganda. It was being respectful for the ones who were died. They know nothing about propaganda. They are just tired of seeing their friends dying next to them, and they are taking a stand....finally. I am so proud of them.
and I could kill 100 with my 44mag revolver in less time than the tiny ar15 that MISSED MORE THAN THE MENTAL IDIOT hit
So I sat down and watched the entire 3 hour rally... Heir Goebbels would have been impressed but I thought the art was a wee bit more advanced these days.
The narrative was so "by the book":
What are you scared of? Getting killed by someone with a gun! (insert some scary stories of death and violence here).
What do we want you to to believe is the root of the problem? Public ownership of guns! (insert scary AR15 video with sinister music/unverified statistics here)
Who's to blame? The evil NRA and Legislators who don't push gun control! (Insert more scary NRA vieos and blame gun control fence-sitters)
Attention spans are finite...Getting bored? Watch Miley and Ariana sing! You've heard of them, right?
What's the solution? Vote Democrat!!! Yay!
Some things were freaking hilarious. At one point, one of the speakers said, yeah there's famous singers and movie stars in the audience but this is real life! Not the (flop) Oscars! Never mind this propaganda piece had a budget in the hundreds of millions and quietly paid travel expenses for tens of thousands of warm bodies to be there for pictures and videos of impressive crowds... yeah, that's real life all right. Add just the right amount of nervous kids being nervous but who somehow pull it all together just as they make their talk's "point" with fire and ambition... seems legit, right?
When the shaved head militant girl gave her speech, she literally pulled a tactic straight out of #$÷ing Adolph Hitler's speech playbook... stand there silent and scowling for an awkwardly long time so the crowd could build anticipation for her to say something that would surely be earth-shattering.
And then to top it off, they attempted do what all propaganda tries to do: turn the world upside-down and convince the audience that making MORE restrictions on people somehow makes them more free.
And to seal the deal, they tried to tap into religious zeal gospel style and make the whole thing into a memorable psuedo-religious experience.
People of America... I don't even care what your personal stance on gun control is anymore, but please, just tell me you are more sophisticated than 100 year old propaganda techniques. Cause if you're not... we are ALL doomed to repeat the horrors of the previous century.
Stop lying. The entire movement to ban firearms is aimed at taking away the right to own firearms. The BS story that "we only want to ban 'assault weapons'" is aimed at convincing the ignorant otherwise. Anyone with more than two brain cells bouncing around in their skull realizes that the ban on assault weapons will, by necessity, lead to further bans. Why? Because banning the AR-15 won't do diddly-squat to stop mass shootings. Mass shootings took place long before the AR-15 became popular, and they will continue to take place with other firearms if the ban on "assault weapons" goes into effect. You don't stop the behavior of psychopaths by taking away the tool that they use to commit their crimes.
If, for some reason, a ban on AR-15s and similar firearms goes into effect, we'll be having this same conversation about whatever firearm is used in the next mass shooting - whether it's a handgun, a shotgun, or another type of rifle. And once again, you'll say "Nobody is wanting to remove anyone's rights." And once again, I'll call you out for lying.
Typical conservative black and white thinking. No room for nuance; no room for compromise; no room for the middle ground.
the bill of right... the PEOPLES rights...are there to PROTECT US..
the 2nd amendment SPECIFICALLY says "shall not be infringed"
banning a basic gun...a basic rifle... a basic small caliper rifle... is infringement
there is NO DIFFERENCE between an ar15 (a small caliper semi automatic) and any other modern HANDGUN
heck my 1911 45cal has MORE KNOCKDOWN power than the ar15
you enjoy the 1st amendment??? your ability to protest and SPEAK FREELY???...it goes away with the removal of the 2nd amendment
you enjoy the 1st amendment??? your protection against search and seizer of your property???...it goes away with the removal of the 2nd amendment and confiscation of guns
you enjoy the 5st amendment??? your ability to SPEAK FREELY and no self incriminate???...it goes away with the removal of the 2nd amendment.. and your ability to say "I have/havenot guns"
I disagree. No one is wanting to take away anyone's rights. What is wrong with common sense gun reform? What is wrong with comprehensive background checks? What is wrong with raising the age of owning of a gun? What is wrong with banning assault weapons? There are many people in the service and law enforcement who agree. The bearing of arms is not being infringed. If you owns guns, keep your guns. It's getting tiresome, the influence the NRA has over the people in this country.
So I sat down and watched the entire 3 hour rally... Heir Goebbels would have been impressed but I thought the art was a wee bit more advanced these days.
The narrative was so "by the book": What are you scared of? Getting killed by someone with a gun! (insert some scary stories of death and violence here). What do we want you to to believe is the root of the problem? Public ownership of guns! (insert cary AR15 video with sinister music/unverified statistics here) Who's to blame? The evil NRA and Legislators who don't push gun control! (Insert more scary NRA vieos and blame gun control fence-sitters) Attention spans are finite...Getting bored? Watch Miley and Ariana sing! You've heard of them, right? What's the solution? Vote Democrat!!! Yay!
Some things were freaking hilarious. At one point, one of the speakers said, yeah there's famous singers and movie stars in the audience but this is real life! Not the (flop) Oscars! Never mind this propaganda piece had a budget in the hundreds of millions and quietly paid travel expenses for tens of thousands of warm bodies to be there for pictures and videos of impressive crowds... yeah, that's real life all right. Add just the right amount of nervous kids being nervous but who somehow pull it all together just as they make their talk's "point" with fire and ambition... seems legit, right?
When the shaved head militant girl gave her speech, she literally pulled a tactic straight out of #$÷ing Adolph Hitler's speech playbook... stand there silent and scowling for an awkwardly long time so the crowd could build anticipation for her to say something that would surely be earth-shattering.
And then to top it off, they attempted do what all propaganda tries to do: turn the world upside-down and convince the audience that making MORE restrictions on people somehow makes them more free.
And to seal the deal, they tried to tap into religious zeal gospel style and make the whole thing into a memorable psuedo-religious experience.
People of America... I don't even care what your personal stance on gun control is anymore, but please, just tell me you are more sophisticated than 100 year old propaganda techniques. Cause if you're not... we are ALL doomed to repeat the horrors of the previous century.
Her name is Emma. Her silence for 6 minutes represented the 17 kids who were killed within that time frame. It wasn't propaganda. It was being respectful for the ones who were died. They know nothing about propaganda. They are just tired of seeing their friends dying next to them, and they are taking a stand....finally. I am so proud of them.
One slight correction. She talked for two and a half minutes and was silence for 4 minutes for a total of 6 1/2 to represent the time it took to slaughter the students at the school. Otherwise, everything you wrote is spot on. I'm proud of their generation, too. They showed up all over the country in numbers too big to ignore.
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