We are all collectively losing it over this fucked up state of affairs in America.
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Iâve requested that my Christian friends on FB explain to me how thoughts and prayers are working to stop this crap. Their God isnât doing his job; and I donât want to hear any Satan-crap because we all know their God is more powerful than him. Either their God is all-powerful or all-loving but he canât be both to be allowing all this shit to keep happening.
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We shouldnât be banning abortion ââ we should just arm the fetus. A fetus with a gun will end all abortion.
The NRA ought to get behind that.
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exactly. I thought I should make the joke before republicans presented it as a serious suggestion.
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@lava - is this close?
And does this guy even have a neck? How does one guillotine someone with no neck?
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actually not even close. That shitheads theory is if you are killing babies, then you will also kill children. But the record shows that women who have had abortions are not killing children - men are.
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If they thought that they could get a fetus sized gun up there, they totally would do that.
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they would, but more likely they would totally ignore the ridiculousness of the suggestion and gaslight us that it is a reasonable thing to suggest.
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first step
not expected to pass Senate, but be basis for start of negotiations
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Apparently the US military is about to introduce a new range of guns using a new type of ammo, and all of the Youtube gun channels are terribly excited about it.
Imperialism turned inwards.
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Dems appear to be attempting a strategy of trying to ban modern US high-velocity military ammunition, on the basis that its effects are exceptionally horrendous and destructive in an unprecedented way.
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This is almost entirely bullshit. All bullets are designed to do horrendous things when they hit, and the wounds caused by modern ammunition are not worse than those caused by Napoleonic muskets.
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However, the grain of truth underlying it lies in the deliberately unstable terminal ballistics of US military ammo. They are designed to tumble after impact, increasing the size of the wound.
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This does not create some new type of unprecedented injury, it just allows you to use a smaller and lighter projectile while maintaining the damage potential of the older heavier projectiles.
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However, the way it does that is basically by mimicking the effect of an expanding (âdum-dumâ) round without technically being an expanding round. The reason why they donât just use expanding rounds is because the use of those is specifically outlawed as a war crime.
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So, to summarise: US military ammo is not abnormally deadly. But it is the blatant abuse of a technicality in order to allow the US military to commit warcrimes without prosecution.
The enthusiasm of the Dems for specifically going after the AR-15 and its ammo is probably not unrelated to the point that both are about to become obsolete, BTW. The gun industry is probably quite keen on the idea of forcing everyone to upgrade their old AR-15s to Sig Spears.
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They didnât have armor-piercing bullets back then, did they? (Iâve since learned that âarmor-piercingâ is misleading. Did they have the ability to increase powder charges when manufacturing cartridges? (duh, If I could do it with metal ones, they could do it with paper cartridges). I donât remember seeing artistsâ renderings of exit wounds made by the balls shot by said muskets. (I stand by this.)
I used to know how to put together cartridges at home, when I was married to my 1st-ex-husband. I made some for his .45 automatic pistol, and they turned out to be âhotâ; seems I added a bit too much powder. The bullets in the cartridges werenât hollow points, but they, um, did some damage to a steel door, I was told.
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