# Bricker: any documentation at all = "intense documentation" so don't ask me for any

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**Created:** [March 22, 2013, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-any-documentation-at-all-intense-documentation-so-dont-ask-me-for-any/653688 "2013-03-22T22:09:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 23, 2013, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-any-documentation-at-all-intense-documentation-so-dont-ask-me-for-any/653688/32 "2013-03-23T14:18:24Z")

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> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> Are you serious?

Apparently not very.

Summarizing what’s wrong with Bricker’s lone ‘example,’ post 50 from the original thread:

1. Senator Webb didn’t say anything like what the Doper he quoted suggested.
2. Even if he had, Webb is irrelevant as a for-instance. He’s retired from the Senate and can neither honor nor violate any pledge he made concerning gun control in the wake of Newtown.
3. Bricker now says he wasn’t citing Webb, but rather what a SDMB poster said in 2006 _about_ what Webb said. (What that supports, and how, are as unclear to me as I’m sure they are to every poster here besides Bricker.)
4. That contradicts what Bricker said in post 50:

> [@Reid Admits No Support For "Assault Weapons" Ban](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reid-admits-no-support-for-assault-weapons-ban/653402/50):
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> there are plenty of examples of legislators who strongly sold the idea, without making it a notarized oath.

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