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« Maryland legislation passes House | Main | More hypocrisy »

A ... well, it's hard to say it's a mistake...

Posted by David Hardy · 4 April 2013 01:27 PM

So I guess it's a lie.

Pres. Obama on the Sandy Hook shootings:

"make sure that we don’t have another 20 children in a classroom gunned down by a semiautomatic weapon – by a fully automatic weapon in that case, sadly.“

2 Comments | Leave a comment

Me | April 4, 2013 8:56 PM | Reply

I almost crapped myself, but CNN is actually carrying the mistake right now on their front page! Someone's getting fired tonight!

Bill Bentnickel | April 4, 2013 11:48 PM | Reply

Pure speculation, but here is my theory (and I apologize if already posted by someone else somewhere):


It is interesting that Obama corrected himself after using the correct term "semi-automatic."


My suspicion is that the new talking point for the anti-gun crowd (to maintain as much confusion as they can between the guns they seek to ban and machine guns) is to use "automatic" in place of "semi-automatic" when referring to semi-automatic rifles.


They can justify this terminology with the (barely) plausible argument that "automatic" can be used to describe a semi-automatic action (as is done on occasion, for example, when referring specifically to Browning's "Model 1911 .45 Automatic Pistol").

Disingenuous? Absolutely. Debatable? Well, you be the judge. I do seem to recall already having heard the argument from some anti-gun source lately that this usage is acceptable.


Obama just screwed up because he got confused momentarily after he caught himself accidentally using the correct term "semi-automatic" and reflexively, but mistakenly, threw in "fully" in front of "automatic."

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