# How to confuse a left-wing hippie environmentalist into allowing assault weapons **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 11, 2014, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-confuse-a-left-wing-hippie-environmentalist-into-allowing-assault-weapons/683395 "2014-03-11T00:50:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-confuse-a-left-wing-hippie-environmentalist-into-allowing-assault-weapons/683395/1 "2014-03-11T00:50:21Z")
[Shoot into ground; plant flowers](http://imgur.com/gallery/nhwbL15). As my friend said “but officer, if I can’t carry 30 rounds it will take me so much longer to landscape”. I, for one, support assault weapons for gardening purposes. 😃 I swear to God if there is any serious discussion of the right to bear arms in this thread I will grab my nearest ballistic gardening device and turn all y’all’s heads into the prettiest fucking topiaries. Also hippie, not hippy. I reported the post ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-confuse-a-left-wing-hippie-environmentalist-into-allowing-assault-weapons/683395/2 "2014-03-11T01:11:27Z")
Perfect for the zombie apocalypse. Every walker you put down also starts a food crop! ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-confuse-a-left-wing-hippie-environmentalist-into-allowing-assault-weapons/683395/3 "2014-03-11T01:15:36Z")
Hey, you can convince them to produce and [deploy bombs, too](http://www.guerrillagardening.org/ggseedbombs.html)! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-confuse-a-left-wing-hippie-environmentalist-into-allowing-assault-weapons/683395/4 "2014-03-11T01:23:17Z")
To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit - ever. They’re like the Viet Cong - Varmint Cong. So you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower. And that’s all she wrote. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-confuse-a-left-wing-hippie-environmentalist-into-allowing-assault-weapons/683395/5 "2014-03-11T01:25:00Z")
For when Chia Pets attack. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-confuse-a-left-wing-hippie-environmentalist-into-allowing-assault-weapons/683395/6 "2014-03-11T02:02:04Z")
Fixed the title as you asked. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-confuse-a-left-wing-hippie-environmentalist-into-allowing-assault-weapons/683395/7 "2014-03-11T02:40:44Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Perfect for the zombie apocalypse. Every walker you put down also starts a food crop! Plants vs. Zombies? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-confuse-a-left-wing-hippie-environmentalist-into-allowing-assault-weapons/683395/8 "2014-03-11T06:12:48Z")
The flora pictured on the shell in the picture in the OP’s link looks like a dandelion. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-confuse-a-left-wing-hippie-environmentalist-into-allowing-assault-weapons/683395/9 "2014-03-11T06:14:43Z")
Shoot a bunch of people in the head with this civilization-destroying weapon and then send them to San Francisco with flowers in their hair. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-confuse-a-left-wing-hippie-environmentalist-into-allowing-assault-weapons/683395/10 "2014-03-11T06:23:19Z")
This is my rifle. This is my gun. This is for planting. This too, kinda. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-confuse-a-left-wing-hippie-environmentalist-into-allowing-assault-weapons/683395/11 "2014-03-11T11:45:41Z")
All we need is Tom Sizemore chasing frightened teens around an abandoned factory: “Whose the best gardener…?” _BOOM…!_ _Rack-shak_ “Whose the best gardener…?” _BOOM…!_ _Rack-shak_ “Whose the best gardener…?” _BOOM…!_ _Rack-shak_ “Oh… I think I see someone who wants to push up daisies…!” _BOOM…!_ _Rack-shak_