[funsec] wow - is a "shadow" politician still a politician?

[Black Ops Security]

 > Drsolly drsollyp at drsolly.com
 > Tue Aug 28 19:36:50 CDT 2007
 >
 > You need more powerful guns, not just more guns. When everyone in the
 > USA is walking around carrying their own AK-47, then (after the
 > initial surge in murders), the depopulated USA will have a much lower
 > murder rate.

Ironically, the AK-47 is not a very powerful gun, and is nowhere near as 
powerful as the typical "big game hunting rifle".  And in the US, MUCH 
more powerful weapons can be purchased.  For example, anybody who is 18 
yo in the US (and not a convicted felon) can buy a .50BMG "sniper rifle" 
that is capable of accurate kills out to distances of 7+ kilometers. 
Hell, for the .50BMG, _anybody_ in the US can buy AP (Armor Piercing), 
API (Armor Piercing Incendiary), and SLAP (Saboted Light Armor 
Penetrator) ammo.  We can get it at the local gun shop, and can even buy 
it online.  Some of that .50BMG ammo can easily penetrate armored 
trucks, shoot down airplanes, etc.  Oddly, the number of crimes 
perpetrated with .50BMG rifles, in the entire history of the US, is less 
than the number of people beaten to death with fists and sticks in the 
UK in one month.

But yet, gun control advocates in the US now want to ban the .50BMG. 
More children die every day in the US in swimming pool accidents than 
the number of people who have EVER been killed in the US by .50BMG 
rifles, and yet nobody here is interested in even suggesting that 
swimming pool owners be more responsible.

Regards,
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