We’ve said it many times already, but we’ll say it once more: does anyone really believe gun control advocates will be satisfied if the AR-15 is banned? Because judging by the tweets we’ve seen over the past week, no one needs an AR-15, which gun grabbers like to call a “weapon of war” — but handguns are OK?
Either that or gun control advocates are trying to argue that the reason Broward County deputies took up positions outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School while kids were being shot was because they only had handguns while Nikolas Cruz was armed with the unstoppable AR-15.
Harvard’s Laurence Tribe is among those arguing that the AR-15 has no other purpose than to kill people, and he’s done his research:
The R in NRA stands for RIFLE. The AR-15 is a semi-automatic RIFLE. Its bullets fly at over 2,000 mph. It easily fires over 10 rounds PER SECOND. Its only purpose is to rip human beings apart and leave them dead. Nobody needs it for defense or for sport. It should be BANNED.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) February 24, 2018
It “easily” fires more than 10 rounds a second? And damn, those bullets go fast. More than 2,000 mph?
You managed to pull the trigger 10 times in one second? Wow my hat’s off to you and your fast-twitch muscles.
— Ilya Shapiro (@ishapiro) February 24, 2018
I researched it; didn’t draw the 10ps rate from thin air. But even at 4ps, the devastation is staggering. Don’t get hung up on the immaterial details.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) February 24, 2018
Got that everyone? The distinguished law professor says “don’t get hung up on the immaterial details.”
“Don’t get hung up on details” seems to be a fun popular go to argument when these guys are fact checked on firearms
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) February 24, 2018
So excuse us if we get hung up on details, but we’re now supposed to ban firearms depending on how fast the bullets fly? We can’t believe people are actually making this argument rather than pointing the blame where it belongs.
"Its bullets fly at over 2,000 mph"
?????
— ⛄️ Brian ☃️ (@applecharlie5) February 24, 2018
Larry, I realize at your age the dementia is setting in, but a 9mm travels at about 1,200 feet per second, and a .223 travels at about 3,200 feet per second. In any instance, you're going to be dead before you can hear the shot. Stop talking.
— ⛄️ Brian ☃️ (@applecharlie5) February 24, 2018
But Tribe did his research, you know. That’s where he got the 2,000 miles per hour number, certainly.
Laurence, I love and believe in you, but none of that is true. Please, we can't disseminate false facts like they do. "Semi-automatic" means single fire, not automatic; ie, not 10/s. And 2500 ft/s is not 2000mph. We can't misinform like the tea party of the left. Be the antidote
— Benjamin Budde (@BenjaminBudde) February 24, 2018
Remember when you used to be taken SERIOUSLY?
— Jim Treacher is a dumb pseudonym (@jtLOL) February 24, 2018
You should take an AR-15 to a gun range and see whether you can "easily" fire "over 10 rounds PER SECOND".
Please take video of your research and put it on YouTube.
Then stop lying to your gullible audience.
— Add your name (@corrcomm) February 24, 2018
Mr. Tribe: Would you be willing to bet, say, $1000 on your ability to rent an AR-15 at your nearest gun range and videotape yourself firing "over 10 rounds PER SECOND"? I'm willing to bet that you can't do it.
— Robert Woolley (@RandomlyBob) February 24, 2018
Show me a video of someone putting out ten rounds from an AR-15 in one second. I’ll wait right here.
— Andrew S. (@shoutingboy) February 24, 2018
2000 mph and 10 rounds per second? AHAHAHSHAHAAA. No fact checking here, folks.
— bakedflounder (@bakedflounder) February 24, 2018
An UZI fully automatic fires 600 rounds per minute, or 10 rounds per second. An AR-15 semi-automatic will not “easily fire” at the same rate. The “R” statements are true. The fire-rate statement isn’t.
— Marty Duren (@martyduren) February 24, 2018
I don’t know about anyone else in this thread, but I can’t twitch my finger on a 3.5 pound trigger 10 times in a single second. ??♂️
Did you mean to write this? It’s a confusing statement.
— Techindustry (@techindustry) February 24, 2018
Almost every aspect of this is wrong. A semi-automatic rifle only fires one round every time you pull the trigger. There is not one human on the planet that can pull the trigger ten times in 1 second.
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) February 24, 2018
OK, everyone, let’s not get hung up on immaterial details just because our constitutional rights are under assault.
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