{"id":92013,"date":"2023-04-20T22:24:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T03:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=92013"},"modified":"2023-04-20T22:24:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T03:24:19","slug":"92013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=92013","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

So Called \u2018Assault Weapons\u2019 ~ When Words Are Used Instead of Guns To Disarm Us<\/a><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start off at the very beginning, following the\u00a0\u201cYellow\u00a0<\/a>Brick Road,\u201d with a few definitions and essential information for those new gun owners, non-gun owners, and anti-gun critters. Please note I\u2019m sorry if I insult those already\u00a0in the know<\/i>!
\nDefinition of the word ASSAULT<\/a><\/p>\n

assault \u2013 verb: a violent physical or verbal attack.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Definition of the word\u00a0WEAPON<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

weapon \u2013 noun: something (such as a club, knife, gun, etc.) used to injure, defeat, or destroy someone or something.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Definition of a\u00a0RIFLE<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

rifle \u2013 noun: a shoulder fired firearm with a rifled bore (spiral grooves in the bore).<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Definition of a\u00a0PISTOL<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

pistol \u2013 noun: a specifically handheld firearm whose chamber is integral with the barrel.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Definition of a\u00a0SEMIAUTOMATIC FIREARM<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

semiautomatic firearm \u2013 noun: a firearm able to fire repeatedly through an automatic reloading process but requiring the trigger to be pulled for each successive shot (a semiautomatic rifle or pistol).<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Definition of a\u00a0MACHINE GUN<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

machine gun \u2013 noun: a firearm for\u00a0sustained rapid fire, or burst,\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0on a single pull of the trigger. (a.k.a. an automatic weapon).<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Definition of the phrase\u00a0ASSAULT RIFLE<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

assault rifle \u2013 noun: any of various intermediate-range, magazine-fed\u00a0military rifles<\/b>\u00a0that can be set for automatic or semiautomatic fire (a.k.a. Select Fire).<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So where does the infamous\u00a0Assault Weapon<\/i>\u00a0fit into the linguistic picture? It doesn\u2019t! It\u2019s essentially MADE UP! Here\u2019s a brief history:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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During World War II, Hugo Schmeisser designed a\u00a0light rifle<\/i>\u00a0to fire the Germans\u2019 7.92-mm Kurz (\u201cShort\u201d) cartridge, which was of the same caliber as the Mauser rifle cartridge but was lighter and shorter and was therefore of a less-potent \u201cintermediate<\/i>\u201d power. This weapon became known as the\u00a0Sturmgewehr (\u201cAssault Rifle\u201d) 44<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(also MP44). It had a curved box 30-round magazine and was designed for approximately 300 yards. It was a lightweight automatic infantry weapon for the 21st century.<\/p>\n

Notice, they didn\u2019t call it an Assault Weapon, as it was specifically a lightweight\u00a0rifle<\/i>\u00a0capable of automatic fire.<\/h3>\n

Years later, upon investigating history, it was discovered that in the late 1980s, Josh Sugarmann, a gun-control activist and founder of Violence Policy Center (vpc.org), coined the term \u201cAssault Weapon\u201d in a paper he authored. In his writing, Sugarmann stated:<\/p>\n

\u201cAssault weapons<\/b>\u2014just like armor-piercing bullets, machine guns, and plastic firearms\u2014are a new topic. The weapons\u2019 menacing looks, coupled with the public\u2019s confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons\u2014anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun\u2014can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons. In addition, few people can envision a practical use for these weapons.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is where the tactic of gaining public support by blending the terms Assault Rifle and Assault Weapon comes into play. While the true origin of the term Assault Weapon is uncertain and remains a topic of heated debate, the ultimate objective of gun control is not merely to disarm individuals but to eradicate the capacity for self-defense. By merging the terms \u201cRifle\u201d and \u201cWeapon,\u201d the connotation of the latter encompasses a wider range of items, including anything that can be wielded as a weapon, thus serving the purpose of eliminating self-defense. It\u2019s important to remember that a RIFLE is simply a RIFLE, a PISTOL is just a PISTOL, but a WEAPON can be anything \u2013 from a firearm to a blade, a rock, or even the chair you\u2019re seated on.<\/p>\n

So the confusing conflation of Assault Rifles and Assault Weapons completes the attack on Self-Defense. An attack on anything that can be used as a\u00a0weapon\u00a0<\/em>for defense, thrusts the self-defense attack quietly into the mainstream.<\/p>\n

That can explain why the Left wants to disarm gun owners of anything that can be used any way they can. They scream ASSAULT\u00a0WEAPON<\/i>, implying black, ugly, military-style rifles, but they\u2019re really after any self-defense items. That is how they are trying to force our cooperation and approval of complete disarmament. So they lie. AND THAT MY FRIENDS IS\u00a0THE BIG LIE<\/b>, the attempted destruction personal self-defense.<\/p>\n

Just look around at the Blue Cities and States attacking the victims instead of the perpetrators with legal actions. Look at countries like England and Australia who; punish those who try and protect themselves.<\/p>\n

The conflation of the terms Assault Rifle and Assault Weapon is also known as \u2018norming,\u2019 the act of normalizing an idea or behavior.\u00a0Norming is also a trick that the United Nations does in their Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), but that\u2019s a story for another time.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

During these current times of incredible Governmental Lies that are circulating throughout our culture, our society is cleaving into separate angry groups of confused, frightened people. Police forces are finding their own safety an issue through defunding.\u00a0 And we struggle with the need to protect our families from criminal violence and tyranny. These attacks and lies are a constant physical grind upon Americans. And that grind creates Federal Over-reach.<\/p>\n

We find this new \u2018normal\u2019 as only a next step in the continuous efforts from our home-grown Leftists, where the attempted disarmament by the Left is trying to overwhelm our values of Freedom and Liberty. These lying norms are a direct threat to our Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n

Without self-defense, there is no self-reliance. Without self-reliance, there is bigger government. And with bigger government, there is only tyranny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So Called \u2018Assault Weapons\u2019 ~ When Words Are Used Instead of Guns To Disarm Us Let\u2019s start off at the very beginning, following the\u00a0\u201cYellow\u00a0Brick Road,\u201d with a few definitions and essential information for those new gun owners, non-gun owners, and anti-gun critters. Please note I\u2019m sorry if I insult those already\u00a0in the know! Definition of … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,95,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deceit","category-mendacity","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92015,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92013\/revisions\/92015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}