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Originally Posted by llwhiteoutll
If you want the first to be as hard to get as the second, then you must support a measure that would make it just as impossible to get any semi-auto as it is to get a full auto?
What has happened is the US with defining and assault rifle by a meaningless feature is outright deceit in order to push an agenda. These measures should be sold to the public on facts, not fear mongering and lies.
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If we're going to start worrying about stating facts and not using fear mongering and lies, the pro-NRA side should probably be the ones you look at first, they're the ones far and away using fearmongering and scare tactics to convince people to vote on their side.
Also the only reason that common-sense gun laws aren't enacted is not because the public doesn't support them. They don't get passed because gun manufacturers and the NRA are lining the pockets of legislators who then vote in their favor.
Then when a politician with half a brain starts suggesting basic things like universal background checks, the NRA gets Fox News to tell their viewers that THEY'RE GONNA TAKE YOUR GUNS AWAY even though that's not what's happening at all.
If we're going to talk "fear mongering" you really need to look at your side of the issue way before you start splitting hairs over what's an automatic or semi-automatic weapon.