aus71383

I don't like it. My rifles are assault rifles - I don't go around assaulting places with them, but that is the purpose behind their design. The 2nd Amendment doesn't say what kind of arms we're allowed to have, but it does make it pretty clear that they would be guns that a militia would use. If I was in a militia and I had to choose between a "Sport Utility Rifle" and an "Assault Rifle" I would choose the assault rifle every time. That and I don't like pandering to fools or beating around the bush. It is what it is....IMO

Austin

sgtD

I don't think there should be any designation other than RIFLE, period. Assault rifle, hunting rifle, whatever. They are all rifles, and should be treated the same. The liberals started this crap as a way to point out certain guns they don't like with hopes of getting them banned. It worked too.

Anyway, I think it's ridiculous for me to have to call a rifle, a "sport utility rifle." So I'll just stick to calling all mine a rifle. The only designation I make is when it is necesary to point out what action type I am refering to. Then I will preface the word rifle with, pump, bolt-action, semi-auto, or whatever.

I personally am against the doube-speak crap. But, as a soon to be lawyer I can understand that words have meaning. In fact words can have several meanings depending on context and can even mean something entirely different from the dictionary definition, given the intent of the writer or speaker.

However, I think it is a sign that our society as a whole has become too soft and out of touch with reality when we have to invent words that are intended to somehow mask what is really going on.

When I kill an old sick dog, I kill him. You can call it "euthinasia" or "putting him to sleep" if you want, but he dies; thus I killed him.

I am a hunter ed. instructor, and this month's HEA magazine has an article about not saying that we kill animals. We now "harvest" animals instead. Well, the last time I ate one, it was dead, so it must have been killed first. I killed it, and am not afraid to say it. People have been doing this for 10s of thousands of years in order to survive. Why are we reluctant to admit it?? Newsflash, someone KILLED a frickin cow to make Nancy Pelosi's hamburger.

In Kalifornia, they are now having "mandatory conservation" of water due to drought; this used to be called "rationing", but we don't say that anymore.

At the hunter ed. range, we cannot refer to a firearm as a weapon, it is to be called a rifle, shotgun, or firearm.

I think it's all a load of crap, but Orwell would be proud. JMO YMMV.

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tangoseal

To be honest I like the Marine's Idea haha. He has a damn fine point.

And about hunting...

Believe it or not if they were to "Ban guns in our country" they would be taking the right to eat for many families in rural America away. It is a fact that many American families actually hunt in the wilderness to feed their families for a season. I know my cousin in fact lives 100 something miles away from the closest actual grocery store so he feeds his 2 kids and wife with Deer and other game and he grows his own food in a garden. He does work a normal job but prefers to live off the land as much as possible.

I just hope that this never happens to our ability to feed our selves not even discounting self defense as well.

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