With nauseating predictability, the usual political hacks clamor to compromise our Second Amendment every time some ghastly crime involving a firearm occurs.\u00a0\u00a0Seldom if ever is attention paid to the workings of the twisted mind that actually\u00a0caused<\/em>\u00a0the horrible event.<\/p>\n A combination of ignorance and the desire to deceive has led to the inherent misnomer of the term “assault weapon.”\u00a0\u00a0Recent\u00a0nuance<\/em>\u00a0has added the suffix “style” to the word “assault” \u2014 supposedly to add a hint of honesty to the expression, although a recent nominee to head the BATF was still unable to define what an assault weapon is.\u00a0\u00a0I shall give it a try right here: a common military weapon, being a rifle that has\u00a0selective fire\u00a0<\/em>options of single shot, bursts of three, and full-automatic.\u00a0\u00a0It may also have enhanced magazine capacity and heat displacement.\u00a0\u00a0Oh, and by the way, full-automatic weapons have not been legal for American civilians to possess for about a hundred years \u2014 except for people who have a Class Three federal firearms license.<\/p>\n [I’ll let this pass because the vast, vast majority of people have no real idea of how NFA ’34 and Title II of GCA’68 operate]<\/strong><\/p>\n Assault-style<\/em>\u00a0weapons are nothing more than single-shot, semi-automatic rifles that only\u00a0look<\/em>\u00a0like actual military weapons…usually because they have a second grip for the shooter’s other hand.\u00a0\u00a0There may also be a heat shield around the barrel…whoopie!\u00a0\u00a0So what’s the big deal about how they look?\u00a0\u00a0It’s because political demagogues, whose arguments hardly have any substance, have to rely on superficiality to get their points across.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Another tactic used by those who are hostile to the Second Amendment is to grossly misinterpret what it says: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”\u00a0\u00a0They fixate on the reference to the word\u00a0militia<\/em>\u00a0and falsely conclude that the amendment pertains only to the National Guard.\u00a0\u00a0Really?\u00a0\u00a0At the Constitution’s writing,\u00a0militia<\/em>\u00a0meant just plain ordinary folks who could be called upon to muster in the event of an emergency \u2014 and they needed to bring their own weapons and ammunition \u2014 and there was then no such thing as a National Guard.\u00a0\u00a0Some constitutional scholars also like to point out that, in the language of the document, the government has\u00a0powers<\/em>\u00a0and the people have\u00a0rights<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0“The right of the people” excludes the government.<\/p>\n Another common fallacy claims that the only firearm the founders were aware of was the musket.\u00a0\u00a0People had rifles and pistols then as well.\u00a0\u00a0Rifles were more accurate than muskets and had greater range, but they were not a military weapon because they needed to be cleaned much more often than the smooth-bore muskets.\u00a0\u00a0Shortly into the Civil War, rifles began to be used because of the invention of the Mini\u00e9 ball, which was cone-shaped and didn’t do as much lead-fouling of the barrel.<\/p>\n Before the adoption of the Class Three federal license requirement, “Tommy” guns were sold in hardware stores and other places.\u00a0\u00a0Introduced in 1918, they were nicknamed the “trench broom” by the doughboys fighting in France.\u00a0\u00a0Not truly a rifle, since they fired pistol rounds, they were still quite popular.<\/p>\n The latest fad among the enemies of the Second Amendment has been to call for the banning of\u00a0semi<\/em>-automatic firearms.\u00a0\u00a0Much like a double-action revolver, a semi-automatic weapon will fire a bullet with every complete pull of the trigger…but with noticeably less effort.\u00a0\u00a0Such weapons have been available for over a hundred years.<\/p>\n There’s also this pesky statistic<\/a>\u00a0that more Americans are punched and stomped to death than are killed by rifles.\u00a0\u00a0Also, there are more gun suicides than murders \u2014 which may explain the current advertising blitz over gun suicide prevention \u2014 but such events, however unfortunate, are not accidents.\u00a0\u00a0Guns may make it easier to kill, but they’re not the\u00a0reason.<\/em><\/p>\n Speaking of causation, the recent spate of unfortunately sensational “mass” murders, in my opinion, is the result of focused media attention and the psychic dislocation caused by the government’s overreaction to the COVID pandemic.\u00a0\u00a0It can only be an opinion, since nobody has actually figured this out.\u00a0\u00a0By the way, it also seems that stabbings are on the rise as well…in spite of the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n The problem is not inanimate mechanical devices.\u00a0\u00a0It is human fallibility.\u00a0\u00a0Murder has been against the law since Moses came down from the mountain, but it still hasn’t stopped.\u00a0\u00a0It may actually be getting worse, but diverting attention away from the essence of the problem doesn’t help.\u00a0\u00a0Yeah, blaming guns rather than the jerks who pull the triggers is much easier \u2014 but dealing with murder isn’t supposed to be easy.<\/p>\n America used to be a lot cornier \u2014 and that was a good thing.\u00a0\u00a0With the expansion of the welfare state, we have vastly increased the number of males who’ve grown up in fatherless homes.\u00a0\u00a0Popular sociologic theory has it that females are compelled by biology to mature in mostly the proper way \u2014 whereas males need to be\u00a0taught<\/em> how to be an adult.\u00a0\u00a0Without a father, young males are left to learn that on the street.\u00a0\u00a0What could go wrong?\u00a0\u00a0Sounds complicated, so let’s blame guns instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, they understand it. 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