Weer'd World

Cam Edwards has a great series on his show called “Media Misinformation”, here’s a recent one:

Now Cam does a great job pulling apart that stupid “Gun Owners are Racist” nonsense, plus missing the whole connection to Jim Crow and Racism to America’s gun control movement.

Still I see another angle to Brokaw’s rant. The anti-gunners are pushing that bullshit MAIG poll so hard they’re starting to belive that it might not be the fabrication it is.

Tom somehow thinks that he’s on the right side of history with this one, and somehow there are anti-gun people EVERYWHERE, but for some strange reason they’re scared to show their support for the “Glorious Cause”.

Yeah, note you’re bashing gun owners on NATIONAL TV, and we live in a world where people can talk their politics under pseudonyms to prevent retaliation. Note that there isn’t any targeted violence from pro-gun groups against anti-gun groups. None of the New York media who published permit holders have been harmed, none of the Brady campaign, or Joyce foundation activists have been harmed.

This isn’t like whites standing up for black rights in the Jim Crow South, this NOTHING by comparison. The pro-gun side does not have the Klan Night Riders, we don’t have lynchings we don’t have corrupt police violating the law to protect the pro-gun agenda. Hell its the other way around, actually!

No, Tom, the reason why you’re seeing THOUSANDS of lawful gun owners standing up against this next wave of stupid laws that only hurt lawful people and make us LESS safe, and there are maybe a few hundred people standing up for Brokaw, is because Tommy, you and your statist compatriots are the new Bull Connors.

Just got thinking about this while watching a Black Ops II video reviewing my favorite rifle both in game and in Meatspace.

The FAL in the Call of Duty games is locked in Semi-auto, much like how the British locked out the auto-sear on their L1A1 rifles. In the game this is done as a “Nerf” to make the gun a little less powerful and rely more on the skill of the player. As shown in the video the player can spend a skill slot to unlock the Auto-Sear, and as said in the video the auto-sear perk is pretty popular (personally I do pretty well with semi-auto only, as that’s how I train in real-life).

The 1994 Assault Weapons ban was pushed heavily by confusing “Semi-Auto” with full-auto weapons already restricted by the NFA. Again the famous Josh Sugarmann quote:

Assault weapons’ menacing looks, coupled with the public’s confusion over fully-automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons –anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun– can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons.

I wonder if even the voter’s kids know the difference between semi-auto and full auto, that this nonsense can be spread.

**UPDATE** Interesting on his channel I found that he hosted a gun debate between a Brit and an American on gun control, and probably because they’re all online gamer friends, and they aren’t gun activists on either side it was one of the most civil and thought-provoking debate.

Also nice to hear like myself, a lot of the online gun-gamers are also real-life gun owners and carry permit holders.