Pennsylvania Governor Ed RendellQuoted from Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell on the possession of a firearm on the side of good:
"It's nuts for ordinary citizens to go out and buy assault weapons. Assault weapons are difficult to operate, they jam easily. If you want a gun to protect your home, it's the last thing you should have... If you have an assault weapon to protect your house, you're crazy...they're not very effective."
In the hands of criminals, (those who do evil) Rendell said:
"Assault weapons have only one purpose...They fire at short range; they put out a ton of fire at one time; and they are very powerful...There is no purpose for these guns but to kill or maim."
As Soap Box Ravings understands Governor Rendells statements, assault weapons are not suitable for defense but they are suitable for offense.
According to the article, all of Rendell's double talk was said virtually in the same breath.
Soap Box ravings memory recalls the communist militaries and those they supported used the AK-47 assault weapon which Rendell says is difficult to operate. They used this weapon family because any peasant whether they be Russian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Nigerian, Iranian, Iraqi, Afghani, or whatever could be trained in their use. This weapon family functioned with very little factory maintenance in countries like Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Vietnam, North Korea, and anywhere else around the world while being used by these same peasants.
I doubt my military peers with an extensive small arms background would agree with the Governor of Pennsylvania's above statements regarding "assault" weapons.
Side Note: The term doublespeak was coined in the early 1950s. It is often incorrectly attributed to George Orwell and his 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The term does not appear in that novel, although Orwell did coin newspeak, oldspeak, and doublethink, and his novel made fashionable composite nouns with speak as the second element, which were previously unknown in English. Doublespeak may be considered, in Orwell's lexicography, as the vocabulary of Newspeak, words "deliberately constructed for political purposes: words, that is to say, which not only had in every case a political implication, but were intended to impose a desirable mental attitude upon the person using them." The term double talk (with a similar meaning) dates back to at least 1936. [1]
Soap Box Ravings believes the Governor's lack of knowledge on his subject matter shines like a headlight in a dark tunnel.
Fully automatic assault weapons (those that put out a "ton" of fire) are regulated by the U.S. Government; their rate of fire is also affected by the size of the individual firearm's magazine. Semiautomatic firearms mislabeled as assault weapons fire one round with each squeeze of the trigger. Their rate of fire is also affected by the size of the magazine. There is essentially no difference in rate of fire among semiautomatic firearms whether they have been wrongly identified as "assault weapons" or are described as hunting rifles. Each semiautomatic rifle, pistol, or shotgun will essentially fire as fast as the trigger can be pulled regardless of caliber or gauge until the magazine is empty.
The labeling of firearms as "assault weapons" is basically to vilify the firearm so those who do not support Second Amendment Rights can restrict firearm use to whatever they think you should possess until you are left with very little or nothing as citizens now are in many other English speaking countries..
As you decide how you should defend your family, remember: The police are only minutes away. That of course disregards such things as: budget cuts, blue flu, vacation and training days, etc. Ask yourself how many people live in your area and how many officers work in your area? How many work all night long? How is it working for you at this point.
Planning for self preservation before an incident allows many people to survive the first incident. Failure to plan relies on luck alone.
