# Stupid Gun news of the day (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 29, 2013, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729 "2013-01-29T19:01:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 395
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/7882 "2018-02-17T08:03:10Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Not only is he not being charged, he’s [not even going to lose his carry permit](http://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/crime/2017/11/17/man-who-wounded-wife-self-accidental-east-tenn-church-shooting-keep-gun-permit/874412001/). > > I understand that there are plenty of responsible gun owners in the United States, but this is precisely the kind of person that guns need to be taken away from. He’s over 80 years old, and by his own admission he’s carried a gun for years and takes it everywhere, and yet he STILL apparently doesn’t know the difference between chambering a round and inserting a magazine. He also appears not to know what the “loaded chamber” indicator on his own gun means. Using the pens of The Founding Fathers™, God wrote " the right of the people to keep and bear arms _ **shall not be infringed** _." He didn’t write “right of mentally competent people.” He didn’t write “if they know what a loaded chamber indicator means.” He wrote “_ **Right of the people** _ … shall _ **not** _ be infringed.” Why do you hate America, **mhendo**? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/7883 "2018-02-19T22:59:18Z")
An excerpt from a recent Facebook post from the father of a student at MSD High School… > [@](#): > > If reading another long well written blog post is not your thing, here is a short quiz you can use to determine if you are a gun fetishist and a sociopath: > > When someone kills a large number of children using a military weapon, do you rush to the Internet to defend the rights of the weapon? > > When someone kills a large number of children using a military weapon, is your first thought that you hope there will be evidence of mental illness? (credit given if its your second thought with your first thought being please let is be a Muslim) > > When someone kills a large number of children using a military weapon, do you run out to buy more military weapons? > > When someone kills a large number of children using a military weapon, are you pre-armed with poorly sourced, easily debunked alternative facts in defense of your arsenal? > > When someone kills a large number of children using a military weapon, do you spend time correcting the terminology people use in describing the weapon? > > When someone kills a large number of children using a military weapon, do you like to bring up how the long dead founding fathers support your views? (Do you object to a standing army as strenuously as they would? Can you name any of them?) > > If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, I would highly recommend you do some serious soul searching. But who are we kidding, you are not capable of that. You would have to have one to be able to search it. [Eric Ronkin](https://www.facebook.com/eric.ronkin/posts/1773776982643808) (public link, no account or login required) ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/7884 "2018-02-19T23:06:36Z")
and one more Facebook link - to a video response to the recent school shooting. > **[Log into Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1993509594242800&id=100007513365065)** > > Log into Facebook to start sharing and connecting with your friends, family, and people you know. Or if you prefer, a YouTube link. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNIxWPuNFfk) A final [link](https://imgur.com/a/OHOOK), to the end result… ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/7885 "2018-02-20T00:43:01Z")
What’s a military weapon? ---
**Author:** ![SigMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SigMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SigMan)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/7886 "2018-02-20T00:47:12Z")
A howitzer? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/7887 "2018-02-20T02:36:25Z")
Any weapon that could realistically be converted to full auto (even with a jury rig like a bump stock) is going to be call a military (style) weapon, even if no army does or would use it. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/7888 "2018-02-20T02:58:17Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > What’s a military weapon? > [@Eric Ronkin](#): > > When someone kills a large number of children using a military weapon, do you spend time correcting the terminology people use in describing the weapon? text ---
**Author:** ![SigMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SigMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SigMan)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/7889 "2018-02-20T03:23:39Z")
An AR15 is modeled after the M1 military rifle. Only difference is it’s semi-auto instead of full auto. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/7890 "2018-02-20T03:29:20Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I understand you need to indicate whom you’re replying to, but it’s such a flaw that the comments of posters on Ignore still show up in quote boxes. …angrily muttered the Sex Tourist. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/7891 "2018-02-20T04:00:43Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Any weapon that could realistically be converted to full auto (even with a jury rig like a bump stock) is going to be call a military (style) weapon, even if no army does or would use it. Fair enough. Thanks for the straight answer. ---
**Author:** ![SigMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SigMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SigMan)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/7892 "2018-02-20T04:20:55Z")
Bump stock are such a stupid idea but they want full auto one way or another. I can turn my Glock to full auto with an attachment and they sell em. Add the 33 round mag and let er rip! ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/7893 "2018-02-20T04:30:06Z")
Like Jared Loughner. ---
**Author:** ![Batano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@Batano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batano)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/7894 "2018-02-20T13:34:26Z")
The Onion or real news? > [@](#): > > A baseball team for third-graders in Neosho, Missouri is raffling off an AR-15 rifle even after it was used to commit the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida. No, not The Onion, it’s real. [Are Third-Graders Raffling Off an AR-15 After the Parkland Shooting? | Snopes.com](https://www.snopes.com/are-third-graders-raffling-off-an-ar-15-after-the-parkland-shooting/) ---
**Author:** ![SigMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SigMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SigMan)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/7895 "2018-02-20T14:01:07Z")
Life goes on. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/7896 "2018-02-20T16:08:05Z")
> [@SigMan](#): > > Life goes on. :rolleyes: Ummm, not for those who were in the way of the bullets, I’m sorry, the “freedom sauce” that pours out of the end of a gun. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/7897 "2018-02-20T16:09:53Z")
> [@SigMan](#): > > An AR15 is modeled after the M1 military rifle. Only difference is it’s semi-auto instead of full auto. M16? ---
**Author:** ![SigMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SigMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SigMan)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/7898 "2018-02-20T18:39:02Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > M16? You’re right. The M1 is a Garand rifle. My mistake. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/7899 "2018-02-20T19:19:20Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Ummm, not for those who were in the way of the bullets, I’m sorry, the “freedom sauce” that pours out of the end of a gun. “Seeds”. They are “freedom seeds”. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/7900 "2018-02-20T19:35:34Z")
A Northern California Fire Department is raffling off an AR 15 for fund raising purposes. > **[Cameron Park fundraiser raffles off an AR-15 after Florida shooting. Some...](https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article200867469.html)** > > A raffle item at a Cameron Park Fire Department crab feed Saturday night made some attendees so uncomfortable that they left the event. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/7901 "2018-02-22T04:35:14Z")
President Shithead has now suggested arming the teachers. No doubt the gun filth will love that. But CNN has been showing a Trump tweet from the campaign where he chastised Clinton for saying he wanted to put guns in the school. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729.md?page=394) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729.md?page=396)