A discussion of rifle ammunition bans and .223/M855 murders, by the numbers.

[jimmy the one]

60. at what point does nra idiocy offend reason

ezra: Pointing out facts is always "rabid gun zealotry" if those facts happen to run counter to any proposal that attacks peaceable gun owners

Spin, pseudo realism, sentence & paragraph from 2nd amendment mythology bible.
You use for support the word 'facts' while ignoring them. The 'rabid gun zealotry' I refer to is the FACT that, if this green tip ban were put to national referendum, it would probably garner more than 70% support, support to ban the bullet. 'Rabid Gun Zealotry' comes into play when ATF held it's 'comment period', which attracted oodles of gun zealots: The informal comment period will close March 16, 2015. ATF has already received more than 80,000 comments... the vast majority of the comments received to date are critical of the framework...

What could possibly be the reason for the predominance of 'comment period' opinions to go AGAINST the ban, when the predominance of public opinion in referendum would be FOR the ban? Rabid gun zealotry, or intensity; fed by nra & gun lobby propaganda & paranoia that some ancient right is being infringed upon.

So what we have is the tail wagging the dog - a small fraction of rabid fanatic gun owners opposing the ban egging on republican rightwing legislators, while support for the ban comes from some police organizations, the Obama govt, bureau of alcohol tobacco & firearms explosives, & most of our fellow democrats & democrat congress people (you do allege to be a democrat, I am not totally convinced).

fox: The proposed regulation would not prohibit owning the bullets, but it would stop anyone from manufacturing or importing them

Ha, I didn't know that. So tell me jokers how does your reasoning (cough) work? You could stock up prior to the ban date with boxes of armor piercing green tips, but you'd use them all up before the tyrranical Armageddon? ON WHAT? Why wouldn't 20 be a lifetime supply for a normal gun owner (not tyrannically minded).

Do you subscribe to the idiotic gunnut lunacy contained in the crux of the following? Although only a single bullet would be banned—M855 green tip or SS109 rounds with certain types of metal cores—and 168 others would still be allowed, gun groups say the proposal could be the beginning of bans on other bullets: It’s a blatant “power grab” that runs counter to the spirit of the Second Amendment, said mmmm Gun Owners of America. “They’re going to take out the gun by taking out the ammunition,” “If you have a gun that has no bullets in it, you can use it as a door stop or hit people over the head with it, but it’s basically no longer a gun.

At what point does this nra garbage cross the threshold of reason to even rabid gun owners? How long do you use an obsolete 2nd amendment to defend possession of such overkill, such lethal firepower, such utterly idiotic specious reasoning as the above? You all appear to adhere in lockstep with this far rightwing republican point of view.