Tag: second ammendment

For me, being familiar with guns, I guess I tend to find the idea of “assault weapon” bans actually rather scary because it gives the illusion of doing something without actually restricting access to what actually allows things like this to happen. Removing the bayonet lug won’t make us safe, it’ll just make us feel safe and that really scares me.

Also if you are not likely to be on the receiving end of state violence you don’t understand how scary the idea of the only people with guns being police and military personnel is.

Honestly

Most people should fire a gun (preferably something small and easy, like a .22 rifle) at least once in their lives and know a bit about them.  Like if you’re really scared I get it, but I also think a lot of people are culturally distanced from parts of the culture that use guns and get really shitty and condescending/unnecessarily terrified because they aren’t actually familiar with them and only associate them with really scary situations.

I mean there are a lot of shit arguments from the pro-gun side too, but it’s like a matter of cultural distance and people not really knowing the other side and why they are the way they are and like… it’s a darn shame.

Like people’s perceptions of say AR-15s are really weird.  They’re just a rifle that uses a midsize cartridge rather than a full size rifle cartridge which means they’re easier to shoot accurately if you’re small, like me, or while moving.  The civilian models are semi-automatic (meaning that instead of having to use a bolt or a pump to chamber the next bullet it does it automatically, personally I slightly prefer a good well designed bolt action, meaning one that suits my long fingernails for accuracy reasons, it’s a very nice rifle). It’s appropriate for hunting and for target shooting.  They do jam easily and require a lot of cleaning though.

Also a lot of guns get called AR-15s that aren’t by news and I don’t know why.