When A Gun Isn’t A Machine Gun
Justice Clarence Thomas has found that an AR style rifle that is equipped with a bump stock, allowing it to spray 1000 rounds of rifle bullets in 11 minutes, is not a machine gun.
He used one word to differentiate what was used to kill 58 people in Las Vegas in October 2017 from, say, an M60 machine gun.
Function.
A “function” of a trigger is not the same as a “pull” of a trigger. When you pull the trigger of an M60 machine gun with a trigger finger, it fires a spray of bullets until you take your finger off the trigger. If you pull a trigger of an AR style rifle equipped with a bump stock, it fires a spray of bullets, but it is the bump stock that maintains the spraying.
Defining a weapon’s functionality based on its trigger, and not based on how many bullets the weapon fires per minute – or per second – is no sane way to define a weapon’s functionality.
But it is the way that 6 Supreme Court Justices define it.
So since the Vegas mass murderer pulled the trigger of his AR only once, that means he’s not – technically – a mass murderer, right?
Not forgetting that Mother Ginni tells Clarence what to say/do .
1Repeal 2A.
Fun fact: The only actual purpose of the militia named in the Constitution was to shoot workers when bosses asked. The militia never shot bosses.
2The word ‘sane’ should no longer be used in any sentence or paragraph pertaining to this supreme court.
3Let’s see how they try to rationalize that the orange crime boss is above the law and his criming ways are actually needed. That day is coming up soon.
4This is the latest nightmare, on sale now. You see, the army wanted a weapon could get through body armor. Now they got it, and you can get it too:
5https://www.sigsauer.com/spear.html
Okay so Harry I have to admit you’ve piqued my attention.
6Cuz I’ve always thought that was vague as hell.
On purpose.
So exactly what militia is named.
I was thinking of ‘well-organized militia,’ which is one of the very few private organizations specified in the constitution.
Of course, none of the actual militias were well-organized. Mostly just drunks.
In history, only two militias refused an order to shoot workers. These were local groups in West Virginia who declined to shoot their neighbors in the Great Railroad Strike of 1877.
Not to worry, though. The bosses brought in militias from the next towns over, and they were happy to shoot workers.
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