It's called the "poor man's deer rifle."All by its own self, no doubt. And they're cheap! And "idiot proof"!! And "poor men" own them!!! And you can find out how to clean them on YouTube!!!!
Inexpensive, deadly, and fairly common, the gun that killed a Philadelphia police officer Saturday was originally designed for the Soviet Army in the mid 1940s.
Think "Authorized Journalist" Sam Wood of "The Poor Man's Newspaper" could have packed any more PSH into his "straight" (no editorializing or bias here, honest!) "news" story?
I would like to address the "idiot proof" slander though, or at least the motivation behind it, as if reliability and simplicity of tool use is a bad thing.
It's a squeeze play. Because while Sam and his fellow travelers are working one side of the street decrying "idiot proof" guns, their cohorts in citizen disarmament are working the other demanding them:
I would like to address the "idiot proof" slander though, or at least the motivation behind it, as if reliability and simplicity of tool use is a bad thing.
It's a squeeze play. Because while Sam and his fellow travelers are working one side of the street decrying "idiot proof" guns, their cohorts in citizen disarmament are working the other demanding them:
There you have it, their true goal, laid out in black and white. The only acceptable guns are those which can be handle
It's a squeeze play. Because while Sam and his fellow travelers are working one side of the street decrying "idiot proof" guns, their cohorts in citizen disarmament are working the other demanding them:
There you have it, their true goal, laid out in black and white. The only acceptable guns are those which can be handled in complete safety by fools. Forget responsibility and accountability. Forget training and judgment. Forget the fact that life is fraught with risks and benefits and trade offs. Forget individual freedom and inalienable rights. Unless a drooling moron can hold the gun in his toes and gnaw on the barrel and yank back on the trigger with his (presumably opposable) thumbs in utter and oblivious tranquillity, it must be banned.[Via John R]
But it seems I read somewhere that anyone who thinks he's come up with a fool-proof device has underestimated the ingenuity of fools.