# Hey US Gov't Isn't About Time You Gave Us Our Automatic Weapons Back? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 18, 2001, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-us-govt-isnt-about-time-you-gave-us-our-automatic-weapons-back/88224 "2001-10-18T15:36:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wildest\_Bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Wildest\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wildest_Bill)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-us-govt-isnt-about-time-you-gave-us-our-automatic-weapons-back/88224/1 "2001-10-18T15:36:52Z")
I mean I don’t want to go up against one of these wacko terrorist that is holding a ak with 30 rounds with my limited 10 clip 22? I want an M16, MP5 or an uzi. Come on giv’em back isn’t about time to let the taxpayers defend themselves agaist these scummy sub-human roaches? ---
**Author:** ![Zanshin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e274bd/32.png) [@Zanshin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zanshin)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-us-govt-isnt-about-time-you-gave-us-our-automatic-weapons-back/88224/2 "2001-10-18T15:38:58Z")
Aw, Christ. Someone please tell me he’s kidding. \ ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-us-govt-isnt-about-time-you-gave-us-our-automatic-weapons-back/88224/3 "2001-10-18T15:40:43Z")
> [@](#): > > I want an M16, MP5 or an uzi. Come on giv’em back isn’t about time to let the taxpayers defend themselves agaist these scummy sub-human roaches? Bill, please explain how having an M16 in your possession will stop an airplane from crashing into a tall building, or how an Uzi can protect you from a bacterium? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-us-govt-isnt-about-time-you-gave-us-our-automatic-weapons-back/88224/4 "2001-10-18T15:41:16Z")
And you will be pointing it in which direction? C’mon Bill, quit holding out. Please please please please please … Where are the terrorists? ---
**Author:** ![Wildest\_Bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Wildest\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wildest_Bill)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-us-govt-isnt-about-time-you-gave-us-our-automatic-weapons-back/88224/5 "2001-10-18T15:48:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gobear \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > I want an M16, MP5 or an uzi. Come on giv’em back isn’t about time to let the taxpayers defend themselves agaist these scummy sub-human roaches? > > Bill, please explain how having an M16 in your possession will stop an airplane from crashing into a tall building, or how an Uzi can protect you from a bacterium? \*\* It will definetely make me feel more confident when I die at least. 😉 Your’re right it won’t against that stuff but it will help me if those suckers are planning raids on American neiborhoods. They might have watched “Invasion USA” too. No telling what they are going to do next. But I know one thing they are going better armed than me and I don’t like that one bit. Especially since I can affored better guns than 10 of them losers put together but I can’t have them because of a law. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-us-govt-isnt-about-time-you-gave-us-our-automatic-weapons-back/88224/6 "2001-10-18T15:53:50Z")
Where do you live, again? That you have heavily-armed terrorists darting between the garden gnomes? ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-us-govt-isnt-about-time-you-gave-us-our-automatic-weapons-back/88224/7 "2001-10-18T16:03:50Z")
WOLVERINES! ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-us-govt-isnt-about-time-you-gave-us-our-automatic-weapons-back/88224/8 "2001-10-18T16:06:19Z")
Garden gnome. That’s funny. Hee hee hee hee… An exercise in recursion: Where do _you_ live, **Uke** , that you have to ask where **Bill** lives that he has heavily-armed terrorists darting through his–hee hee–garden gnomes? Hmm? ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-us-govt-isnt-about-time-you-gave-us-our-automatic-weapons-back/88224/9 "2001-10-18T16:07:43Z")
And while I have your attention, Bill, please check out [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=93406)thread. ---
**Author:** ![Tymp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Tymp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tymp)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-us-govt-isnt-about-time-you-gave-us-our-automatic-weapons-back/88224/10 "2001-10-18T16:09:47Z")
There’d be no problem if garden gnomes had assault rifles. ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-us-govt-isnt-about-time-you-gave-us-our-automatic-weapons-back/88224/11 "2001-10-18T16:10:29Z")
Since WB has already told us that he considers abortionists the domestic equivalent of terrorists, the last thing I want is WB with an automatic weapon in his hands. I suspect a great many other people feel the same way. All I can picture is this schmuck waltzing around with an M16 firing at sharks, abortionists, alligators, and “ragheads.” ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-us-govt-isnt-about-time-you-gave-us-our-automatic-weapons-back/88224/12 "2001-10-18T16:16:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tymp \* > \*\*There’d be no problem if garden gnomes had assault rifles. \*\* Assault rifles don’t kill people. Garden gnomes kill people. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-us-govt-isnt-about-time-you-gave-us-our-automatic-weapons-back/88224/13 "2001-10-18T16:21:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Legomancer \* > \*\*WOLVERINES! \*\* ::wiping screen off with kleenex:: I’m auditioning to play Ben Johnson. Loved that guy! ---
**Author:** ![Wildest\_Bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Wildest\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wildest_Bill)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-us-govt-isnt-about-time-you-gave-us-our-automatic-weapons-back/88224/14 "2001-10-18T16:22:00Z")
Y’all crack me up. Funny funny stuff. Especially you PLD I am laughing my butt off right now. ---
**Author:** ![Trucido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@Trucido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trucido)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-us-govt-isnt-about-time-you-gave-us-our-automatic-weapons-back/88224/15 "2001-10-18T16:35:48Z")
I’ll make you a deal, **Bill**. You take my Selective Service slot, and I’ll make sure you can have all the automatic weapons you can shoot. You can prance after terrorists all you want, and I can guarantee a death lousy with confidence. Sound good? ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-us-govt-isnt-about-time-you-gave-us-our-automatic-weapons-back/88224/16 "2001-10-18T16:37:35Z")
I’m glad you find it funny. I wasn’t joking. I would no sooner give you an automatic weapon than I would give Charles Manson a copy of the “Beatles Anthology.” ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-us-govt-isnt-about-time-you-gave-us-our-automatic-weapons-back/88224/17 "2001-10-18T16:41:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wildest Bill \* > \*\*I am laughing my butt off right now. \*\* :: Peers around :: Nope, it’s still there. ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-us-govt-isnt-about-time-you-gave-us-our-automatic-weapons-back/88224/18 "2001-10-18T16:49:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Captain Amazing \* > \*\*Garden gnomes kill people. \*\* Actually, the ordinary variety of garden gnomes are not what we have to worry about. It’s the _assault_ garden gnomes that causes concern. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-us-govt-isnt-about-time-you-gave-us-our-automatic-weapons-back/88224/19 "2001-10-18T16:51:18Z")
Thanks-I could have lived without thinking of **Bill** ’s ass. **Bill** did it ever occur to you that right now might NOT be such a good time to give back weapons-think about it-someone may be connected to a terrorist organization? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-us-govt-isnt-about-time-you-gave-us-our-automatic-weapons-back/88224/20 "2001-10-18T16:51:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tymp \* > There’d be no problem if garden gnomes had assault rifles. Fool. The garden gnomes _are_ the terrorists. If your neighbors have them, you don’t want to be out at night. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-us-govt-isnt-about-time-you-gave-us-our-automatic-weapons-back/88224.md?page=2)