Clinton perpetuates full-auto/semi-auto conflation, endorses thought control

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As mentioned here in passing yesterday, the Violence Policy Center, as far back as 1988, openly advocated exploiting the public's ignorance about the difference between fully-automatic and semi-automatic firearms, in order to make so-called "assault weapons" sound "scary"--a strategy with which they have enjoyed decades of help from the mass media:

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The weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons--anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun--can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons.
http://www.examiner.com/article/clin...hought-control

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Glaze's confession will not slow anti-gunners' exploitation of mass shootings

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Stepping down from his position as executive director of former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg's "Everytown for Gun Safety" (formerly "Mayors Against Illegal Guns" and "Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America"), Mark Glaze startled gun rights advocates with an unprompted acknowledgement of a basic fact that we have been hammering for years. Glaze admitted that the high profile mass shootings that "gun control" groups so callously, opportunistically exploit to advance their forcible citizen disarmament agenda would not have been prevented by the measures they claim these shootings prove the need for. From the Wall Street Journal:

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And Mr. Glaze said the movement hasn’t solved one of its signature problems: Many mass shootings wouldn’t have been stopped by tighter regulations proposed by gun-control advocates, even if they might have prevented other gun crimes.”

"Many" would not have been stopped? It would be interesting to find out if he can name one that would have. Glaze words it this way:

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Because people perceive a mismatch in the policy solutions that we have to offer and the way some of these mass shootings happened, you know, it is a messaging problem for us, I think. … Is it a messaging problem when a mass shooting happens and nothing that we have to offer would have stopped that mass shooting? Sure it’s a challenge in this issue."
http://www.examiner.com/article/glaz...mass-shootings