Fellow Bostonians: How many of us wished we had an assault weapon last night?

Nuh-uh.

So then, why does the military implement these features in their weaponry?

Baldimo wrote:

You will have to tell me that, you are the one's who have a problem with those items.

The military has a feature on their weapons that a civilian will never have, a selective fire switch, without that, the weapons of a civilian and the military are not the same.

It's not "to give the willies," as Glennn would have us believe?

I've already explained why pistol-grips, flash suppressors and other such features make a rifle especially dangerous; it's because it makes a rifle more effective in its purpose.

InfraBlue wrote:

Thanks for explaining your all's alternate language.

No alternate language. That is regular English language.

InfraBlue wrote:

Heh, you're telling me what I mean to say. You're a card.

It is what your words mean in the English language.

InfraBlue wrote:

You're making the comparison, not I.

I did not make any comparison.

I merely asked you to explain why you attribute some kind of significance to the use of a flash suppressor.

Not exactly. For that to be an example of the military implementing pistol grips, someone would have to provide evidence that the military actually implemented those pistol grips.

No one has provided any such evidence.

That is incorrect. My post stated a fact.

In your mind only.

What you're asking for is ridiculous because you'd need a controlled experiment to answer your question. That's much like the tobacco companies saying that there is no proof that smoking causes cancer because there are no controlled experiments proving that it does, that all we have are inferences.

Nuh-uh.

A pistol grip allows for faster and more accurate shooting.

So then you don't think a pistol grip is an ergonomic improvement?

InfraBlue wrote:

Baldimo wrote:

You will have to tell me that, you are the one's who have a problem with those items.

The military has a feature on their weapons that a civilian will never have, a selective fire switch, without that, the weapons of a civilian and the military are not the same.

It's not "to give the willies," as Glennn would have us believe?

A selective fire switch is considerably different from a pistol grip and a bayonet mount.

InfraBlue wrote:

I've already explained why pistol-grips, flash suppressors and other such features make a rifle especially dangerous; it's because it makes a rifle more effective in its purpose.

I've not seen any evidence that they make guns more effective. But that's beside the point. "Being more effective" does not mean that a weapon is "especially dangerous."

"Especially dangerous" means that a weapon is far more dangerous than an ordinary gun.