Posted March 18, 2019 8:30 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster

It’s almost amusing how members of Congress fancy themselves as experts on everything. No matter the topic, they seem to think they know more than everyone else. After all, few of them talk to legitimate experts on the subject before having an opinion. Instead, they reflect whatever opinion their party shares.

Take guns, for example. They routinely tell people what they need and don’t need for self-defense, despite having pretty much no knowledge of self-defense. This is the party of Joe “Shoot ’em through the door” Biden, right?

The latest example is noted anti-gunner Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), who tweeted this gem over the weekend:

Nobody needs an AR-15 to hunt.

Nobody needs a semi-automatic rifle to defend their home.

But mass shooters NEED these weapons in order to murder as many people as efficiently as possible.

And so nobody will miss them when they are illegal – except for the killers.

— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) March 16, 2019

Let’s break this down step by step, shall we?

“Nobody needs an AR-15 to hunt.”

Well, that depends on what you’re hunting, doesn’t it? The AR-15 is a preferred weapon for hunting animals like coyote because of a quick cycling time and ammo capacity. …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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