sporting shmorting, tactical shmactical

This is what I was giving up with my Great Compromise, the semi automatic tactical rifles that are sold on the civilian market.


This is the quote I was working from.  I guess I failed to notice that you had slyly slipped in the term tactical, because you had, as your ilk is inclined, taken a seemingly clear cut issue and led it into the swamp of makes and models.  So (sigh) what is the difference between a sporting and a tactical weapon?  Off to the google machine and there are pagefuls of various and differing definitions each one preceded by how it is complicated and how definitions vary. 


So what, does one rifle have a picture of Babe Ruth on it, and the other has a picture of General MacArthur?  Anyway it's a distinction without a difference.  Your offer to allow banning of one kind of semi automatic weapon as long as another kind of semi automatic weapon continues to be legal, is not half a bowl, it is no bowl at all. 


I have to keep repeating my assertion because it keeps getting buried in your obfuscation.  Semi automatic weapons have no real function in civilian life.  Every now and then a bunch of people get shot with them.  We ought to ban them.

The guy on the next barstool, the Old Dog, is not that different politically than me, but also like me, he likes to argue.  He was saying that it was difficult to convert a semi automatic to an automatic.  I'm pretty sure you said it was a piece of cake.  He also said something about the barrel overheating if you do the convert or something.  It is all machs nicht as far as I am concerned.  All I have to say on the matter is in the preceding paragraph.

There is some kind of silly gun control thing going on right now.  I believe the thrust is to ban selling to suspected terrorists.  The gun people are all in a bunch over the word suspected.  How can you deprive a person a deadly weapon just from suspicion?  Of course they have no qualms about keeping a person in Guantanamo for the rest of their life because they are under suspicion.  Anyway it will never happen, and you gun nuts will be happy to note that even speaking of gun control keeps the cash registers jingling at the gun store.

And again I fail to see the difference between being an official and a non official Democrat.  The Old Dog was mumbling about regular democratic organizations, but beyond the name there was nothing more to say.

I don't know what that 43 million number means.  That's one in eight Americans, hardly likely that that many are dues paying card carrying Democrats.  It seems a little low for how many people vote democrat since we generally get half of the vote of 3 billion people. Maybe it has something to do with who registered in those states that have registration, maybe how many chose the democratic ballot in the primaries.  Maybe the latter, since most people don't vote in primaries that number sounds credible.


Not a player?  I guess I don't wear the official blue hat with the kicking donkey inside the big letter D.  But I do vote and that is like taking an at bat.  And I have given time and money, and a couple times I have even marched with the dems in the Champaign Urbana Fourth of July parade.  I think I am part of the team, if you don't think i am. well fine.