# Gun Grabber 2: Semi-automatic bugaloo **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 4, 2013, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-grabber-2-semi-automatic-bugaloo/649293 "2013-02-04T07:22:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 67
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-grabber-2-semi-automatic-bugaloo/649293/67 "2013-02-05T20:57:17Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > I don’t see how you could sensibly read the statement as anything but an accusation that those who want the gun want it to shoot children. Further supported by his arguing that exact point. He never argued that anyone wanted the gun so they could shoot children. He said the opposite in both post #34 and post #44. > [@The Most Wanted Gun In America](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-wanted-gun-in-america/649254/34): > > Whether that’s because of the proposed assault weapons ban or not, the weapon is now famous and cmmercially popular in large part for its use in shooting children, even though your personal motive for buying one isn’t to go shoot children. If you don’t like that, well, that’s life. > [@The Most Wanted Gun In America](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-wanted-gun-in-america/649254/44): > > > [@The Most Wanted Gun In America](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-wanted-gun-in-america/649254/37): > > > > Do you really, honestly believe that people are buying it because they think it’d make a great weapon to murder kids with? > > No, which is why, you’ll note, I never said that. > [@Irishman](#): > > Note that **Ellen Cherry** came in much sooner (according to her post in this thread) but didn’t do anything. She might have been early enough to mod the comment for being a political hijack and a threadshit. Yes, it’s possible that the thread would not have gone so badly if she had told everybody to cool down or had given a note in response to a couple of posts. But the post wasn’t a political hijack - the use of the gun in that massacre isn’t political - and I don’t think it was a threadshit. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-grabber-2-semi-automatic-bugaloo/649293)._