Okay, yesterday's, but that doesn't sound as good. MAAAASSSS MUUUURRRRRDERRRRR MACHIIIIIINE!!!1 OOOOOOO! BOOOOGABOOOOGAAAHH!! The article goes on to say how a "sick gun nut" traveled to a different parish just to for a chance to get in on a "sick lottery" to win the very same gun that was used to kill school children in Newtown!!!! Ooooooooo!!!! eeeeevillll! Siiiiiiick!!! Sadly I can't find this particular piece of yellow journalism on their website.
I'm in favor of gun control (and no, I don't want to talk about it), but no, that isn't even in the same ballpark as journalism.
I have no doubt that The Daily News is a rag generally, but I'm not finding anything wrong with this story.
Your bias is showing. Might want to get that checked. As for the rag, it critically fails the objectivity test with that headline. Means I can flush it with the rest of the sewage that purports itself to be 'news'.
My bias is well-founded. If you want to own a machine gun, then there's something seriously wrong with you.
The Daily News is now and has always been a rag. Not quite in the "Moon Landings Were Faked" category, but close.
The headline and readable text is over the top, but the concept of gun as door prize also seems a bit over the top. A gun is a serious tool, not something to be frivolously handed out to some random person who may or may not be prepared for the responsibility.
It's not a machine gun. It's a semi-automatic rifle, of the kind millions of people own, lawfully use, and peacefully enjoy. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Apparently Rick's utopia is one in which only The State and it's police force should be allowed access to weapons. Because The State can always be trusted to act in the best interests of it's citizenry and would never, ever behave in oppressive, despotic ways. And if The State does do this, well then, it's always possible to sit at the negotiating table and talk despots out of their bad behavior. Doesn't this guy live in Ireland? Haven't they been Britain's bitch for like, thousands of years? Didn't this guy learn anything from Braveheart?
I'm a vegetarian, against the death penalty, against most forms of violence and war, in favor of gun registration, and some regulation, and I think machine guns are awesome, powerful pieces of equipment. They are offensive weapons and not defensive ones, in my opinion, but that doesn't mean someone who wants to own one has issues, or has anything wrong with them. Generalities and stereotypes help no one.
The butch types of what? Men? Women? Did you think about your comment before you vomited it onto the forum floor?
FTFY Um, you are aware that before taking possession of said firearm the winner will have to fill out a form 4473 like anyone else and pass a background check? In any of these types of raffles this is always the case. As for the gun being an over the top prize, I disagree. My son's shooting club team is currently raffling off one as a fundraising effort. Beats the shit out of selling chocolate bars. Point of order, but they are bloody important in the defense. That's why most are mounted on tripods and the line. Not busting your balls. Just pointing it out. True. Then again I've been coming to an idea about the antis that constantly react as if the world is coming to an end
Yes, of course, otherwise it would be an illegal transfer. My point is that people who might not have gone through the usual deliberative process might suddenly have a complex and potentially dangerous tool for which they aren't prepared to own. Very different in my mind. Your son's club is topically associated with gun use. It is likely that in selling the tickets they also spend some time talking about what the club does, which of course relates to concepts around safe ownership.
In a perfect world, the machine gun store would be next door to the marijuana store. Across the street from the gay marriage chapel.
Look at it this way, do Girl Scouts bake all the cookies they sell or are they about cooking? Its a legal product being raffled off. Sorry but I'm not seeing the big deal. As for the deliberative process, what deliberative process are you talking about? The decision that "hey I want a gun"?
And if you think that an AR-15 is a machine gun, then you're the one with the serious problem. ETA: Damn you, Captain X! You took my answer!
I also can't help but note the irony of this lump of pulp decrying the AR-15 as a prize because of how hawrrrrrrible it supposedly is -- and yet they're giving away a prize far and away more deleterious to innocent human life: Yankees tickets.
The original raffle didn't bother me, but if it implies an equivalence between "hey I want a cookie" and "hey I want an AR-15", it's clearly much more sick than I thought. Besides everything else, I don't remember the guy the church is dedicated to saying anything about beating cookies into ploughs.
That seriously sounds like one hell of a weekend. I call dibs on starting my own gay marriage chapel. One of you guys will need the machine gun store, the marijuana store, and for good measure, the bakery. We'll build right next to each other, and rake it in.
I won a Cav Arms lower in a raffle. Got an upper and a LPK in group buys but after that got sidetracked. Eventually I'll get back to the build.
a) Semi-auto rifles are not machine guns. b) Mass murder machine doesn't strike you as the least bit hyperbolic?
It still behooves you to use critical thinking and discount the headline for it's over the top subjectiveness... especially if you agree with it.
If you want to own a car that travels faster than the allowable speed limit there's something seriously wrong with you. BTW where the hell is my mass murder machine? All my semi-automatic rifle does is propel lead via expanding gases. It hasn't murdered even one person let alone a large number. Quality control is for shit these days.
Mountain Home Air Force Base had the best raffle prize back in the day - a kid's little red wagon filled with booze and a 30-06 hunting rifle.
