Shotguns are widely used by hunters in Ireland and cannot be used in massacres as they only load 2 cartridges at any given time. Machine guns carry hundreds of bullets at a given time and can fire long distances. Shotguns can only fire at short distances. What Obama is trying to say here to the Southern gun loving states is hey, Im not going after the hunting guns. Im after the assault guns that are used by dangerous criminals.

DMC, all of that was factually inaccurate? Shotguns are more lethal than rifles like the AR-15 at the kind of distances you see in the mass shootings this ban is supposed to stop. And while some shotguns hold two cartridges at a time, and some only one, many hold eight to twelve and can be reloaded before those eight to twelve are all shot, thus making the magazine size effectively be however many shells you can physically carry.

Not knowing simple details like that and still pushing for changes to social policy and legislation is a problem here, because it’s the legislative equivalent to homeopathy and just as unhealthy. Perhaps we ought to demand evidence-based legislation as well as evidence-based medicine….

What sort of a message does that photo send out .
Remember this guy has a kill list – which he openly boasts about .

He doesn’t know how to properly hold a rifle?

@dmc what is the difference between a “hunting gun” and an “assault gun”, your logic would make .22 calibre semi automatic rifle an “assault gun”. You do know you can buy semi automatic shotguns?

This ban in the states is stupid there are too many guns/gun owners out there to police. In fact this ban has increased the sales of these so called “assault rifles” so if anything it has been counter productive.

That would be two shots…

That was the joke I assume, fr ted etc

Thats the joke. D’Unbelievables…

Dangnamit, I mixed up that as a line from Tom in Fr Ted, #patshorttermmemoryfail

Ya, have ya nevet seen him sign somethi g on tv

Peter, that’s because Willie was only after telling shooters here that we couldn’t reintroduce Olympic pistol shooting here because pistols were too dangerous…

Gun Control laws are not the same as banning guns. The point is that recreational shooters, like Obama apparently, would not be effected by the new controls.
Smart move really.

…except that they would be. Not all of them, but rather a large percentage of them, and often ones you wouldn’t have expected. All these laws sound great in soundbites, in reality they’re ill-considered and badly written (and that’s not just a US thing, it happens here too).

I think the nuts in the south with semi automatics are unlikely to be worried about the KKK. More likely to be in it!!

Youre sick.

Your grammar and punctuation are also sick.

Over react much?

Think you missed the point there, which is, banning assault rifles will not impact sports shooting.

Remember, guns don’t kill people, it’s the light lump of metal travelling at a couple of hundred ft/sec followed by 20 other similar lumps of metal that do

To the Irish Obama can do no wrong

Vocal, they’re not talking about banning assault rifles (because those have been heavily controlled in the US for decades), they’re talking about banning assault weapons.

The difference is that “assault rifle” is a defined term (pick up a copy of the OED or mirriam-websters’ dictionary and look it up) while “assault weapon” is not, and so can be legally defined to mean whatever anyone wants it to mean. Historically, it’s been defined to be anything that looks scary to legislators, who usually don’t have any knowledge of what they’re banning. End result; useless law and more dead kids because nobody’s trying to fix the problem, they’re all standing around congratulating each other on banning something that looks like a symptom, but might not be. Like I said above, the legislative equivalent of homeopathy.

ha ha ha, relax you will ya?

Read in a loud high-pitched voice for best effect.

Obama’s done plenty wrong. Most of us aren’t blinded by his “Irishness”.

Amazing that it took this to realise it.

That was his running mate Paul Ryan who pulled that particular stunt