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<\/a><\/p>\nRob Doar with the Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance holds up a Ruger 10\/22 Assault Rifle as a visual aid on day two of hearings on proposed new gun laws the House Public Safety Committee in the State Office Building in St. Paul, Minn., on Tuesday, February 5, 2013. He was arguing that the proposed law would make certain versions of gun illegal depending on what he called ‘cosmetic changes’. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin)<\/p>\n
Read that again: \u201cRuger 10\/22 Assault Rifle.\u201d You realize it shoots ordinary .22\u2019s, right? Yes, it has all the bells and whistles to look like a heavy-duty killing machine, but it\u2019s still just a .22. And it\u2019s semi-auto, meaning one-shot-per-trigger-pull. A true \u201cassault rifle\u201d is a machine gun: hold the trigger and it shoots until empty. This isn\u2019t one of them. This is a baby wannabe. It\u2019s good for shooting at tin cans but not much else.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s like the Asian guys who put mag wheels, spoilers and loud mufflers on their Honda Civics. Looks cool, yes; but it\u2019s never going to win NASCAR. That tricked-out Honda is not a muscle car and this tricked-out .22 is not an assault rifle. <\/p>\n
The fact the reporter believes this plinker needs to be as heavily regulated as the M-16\u2019s that Marines carry in Afghanistan tells you all you need to know about the Media. The fact Democrats on the committee agree with him, that\u2019s the really scary part.<\/p>\n
They keep telling us there is no Liberal Bias in the Legacy Media. Ignorance, maybe. Stupidity, possibly. But definitely not Liberal Bias. It\u2019s stuff like this keeps me from believing them. <\/p>\n
Joe Doakes
\nComo Park<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Joe is right, of course. <\/p>\n
The hard part is turning low-information news consumers into informed voters. It’s also the mandatory part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails Here\u2019s the photo and the caption from the St. Paul Pioneer Press, March 6, 2013. Rob Doar with the Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance holds up a Ruger 10\/22 Assault Rifle as a visual aid on day two of hearings on proposed new gun laws the House Public Safety […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34886"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34929,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34886\/revisions\/34929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}