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:
https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/967375494659395584
It “easily” fires more than 10 rounds a second? And damn, those bullets go fast. More than 2,000 mph?
https://twitter.com/ishapiro/status/967466829236113410
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 O'Fall (@applecharlie5) February 24, 2018
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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 O'Fall (@applecharlie5) February 24, 2018
But Tribe did his research, you know. That’s where he got the 2,000 miles per hour number, certainly.
https://twitter.com/BenjaminBudde/status/967377455093821440
Remember when you used to be taken SERIOUSLY?
— ?It's?Almost ⛄️Christmas? (@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.
— While Supplies Last (@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
https://twitter.com/bakedflounder/status/967468127528169472
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.
— ????? ????? (@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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