CNN on airsoft BB guns - They call them weapons! Hahahaha!

[SUBMAN1]

Is our media completely ignorant, or just stupid? Or maybe a combination of the two. Or maybe they are just trying to blow a story out of proportion again? Look at this picture:



They specifically call the airsoft bb guns (I've been shot with airsoft - not a big deal) 'WEAPONS'! :rotfl: CNN is an overhyped BS machine.

Of course they fail to tell you that Airsoft is harmless. It shoots yellow rubber BB's. They are fun to play with though.

-S

Full article here - http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/11/stu...nal/index.html

[AVGWarhawk]

That is a Red Rider BB Gun and you could take an eye out with that thing!!!!!

[Subnuts]

They're weapons if you strap 30 or 40 of them together. Which I suppose this kid was intending to do.

They are showing their left-wing leaning. Trying to ramp up anti-self protection rhetoric by plying on peoples fears of the unknown. This time using airsoft. Go figure.

[Takeda Shingen]

Ya'll like Wikipedia so much that I went out and quoted it for you:

A weapon is a tool used to injure, incapacitate, or kill an adversary.[1][2] Weapons may be used to attack and defend, and consequently also to threaten or protect. Metaphorically, anything used to damage (even psychologically) can be referred to as a weapon. A weapon can be as simple as a club or as complex as an intercontinental ballistic missile.

An airgun seems to fit the definition of weapon. Webster's seems to agree as well. I don't think that I see any bias.

[Kapitan_Phillips]

So are they trying to ban them?

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

Ya'll like Wikipedia so much that I went out and quoted it for you:

An airgun seems to fit the definition of weapon. Webster's seems to agree as well. I don't think that I see any bias.

:rotfl:That shows how terrible Wikipedia is. Nice. They wouldn't even allow us to use Wikipedia in college because of that. Anyway, so I guess by Wikipedia's definition, the kitchen sponge is a weapon! Wikipedia should further clarify that for the sponge to be a weapon, it must be used in a threatening manner first! Same goes for the airsoft. It can't be used to kill or incapacitate, nor injure someone, so before it could be thus classified, it must also be used in a threatening manner.

-S

the kitchen sponge is a weapon!

It is indeed a weapon if used as one. Water can be used as a weapon which shows how ............well, silly the CNN editors really are.

[Subnuts]

The kid also had a hand grenade and was working on three other explosive devices. He also had a video of the Columbine shootings and a hand-painted Nazi flag in his bedroom. Oh yeah, and his Mother bought him a rifle for his 14th birthday, too young for him to legally own one.

Naturally, I'm going to assume that he was working on a school project on the problem of Nazis in our classrooms.

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by Subnuts

The kid also had a hand grenade and was working on three other explosive devices. He also had a video of the Columbine shootings and a hand-painted Nazi flag in his bedroom. Oh yeah, and his Mother bought him a rifle for his 14th birthday, too young for him to legally own one.

Naturally, I'm going to assume that he was working on a school project on the problem of Nazis in our classrooms.

I wonder what the laws are on that one these days? Most states allow people younger than 21 to own rifles, but not pistols / handguns. Matter of fact, I know a few people that got their first .22 prior to his age - one got his first .22 at even 7 years old. As you may have guessed, this guy has been a life long hunter.

Anyway, I have no problem with a kid and a .22 as long as he is properly supervised, especially out in the country. In the city, probably not a good idea. What the main problem here is not the kid, it is the mother who obviously is a push over. Where are her parenting skills? A kid who loves Columbine tapes, and Nazi flags is probably not the best candidate to be buying rifles for, and especially not black powder unless one has a black powder rifle to go along with it. Money is probably much better spent on counseling or phycho therapy! :hmm:

-S

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Subman makes a good point here. It doesnt take a rocket scientist to think that hand painting a Nazi flag in a room and viewing Columbine tapes is grounds for a serious rethink of your childs mental wellbeing.

Dont get me wrong. I possess some German WW2 Memorabilia, but as memorabilia only. I have an entire wall littered with plans, maps and diagrams from major allied assaults, as well as German Panzer organisations along Normandy.

Anyway, the signs are present that this child both posesses the means and possibly motivation to injure or kill people. Quite frankly, purchasing weapons and black powder for such an individual is a pretty dumbass thing to do.

[micky1up]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Is our media completely ignorant, or just stupid? Or maybe a combination of the two. Or maybe they are just trying to blow a story out of proportion again? Look at this picture:



They specifically call the airsoft bb guns (I've been shot with airsoft - not a big deal) 'WEAPONS'! :rotfl: CNN is an overhyped BS machine.

Of course they fail to tell you that Airsoft is harmless. It shoots yellow rubber BB's. They are fun to play with though.

-S

Full article here - http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/11/stu...nal/index.html

to be honest i dont trust your nation with those never mind the arrary of weapons that you can buy

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by micky1up

to be honest i dont trust your nation with those never mind the arrary of weapons that you can buy

Here is proof right here that CNN's propoganda scheme is working on outsiders. He actually thinks they are real.

Micky1up - They are fake by the way. They are not real guns. Even if they were, it is no reason to fear our nation since if everyone walking over here had an arsenal like this, there would be no crime whatsoever. Everyone would be calm and courteous. Do you realize that these generations are the first generations to grow up unarmed? Look what it is bringing us - harm and fear and disrespect. America used to be a much nicer place 50+ years ago. A man used to be able to walk down the street and the teenagers moved out of his way to the other side. Now days, a man walks down the street and it is he who moves to the other side for the teenagers.

-S

[Skybird]

... a 14-year-old boy...
... including a 9 mm rifle with a laser scope...
... The boy's mother bought the rifle for him several weeks ago at a gun show...

Strange person, that mother.

... Police also found an operational hand grenade, ...

CNN calls that a weapon...! Hahahaha!

[fatty]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

Ya'll like Wikipedia so much that I went out and quoted it for you:

An airgun seems to fit the definition of weapon. Webster's seems to agree as well. I don't think that I see any bias.

Regulated in nearly all Western states, protective gear required for organized play, designed and built to be wielded against human targets... not sure what it is about them that makes them anything besides weapons. Certainly not toys. At any rate, if you pointed one at a police officer or brought it to school, I don't feel that anyone would be interested in debating semantics or lethality. Keep them on the playing fields - but out of the hands of loony Nazi kids!