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<blockquote data-quote="ConstitutionCowboy" data-source="post: 3263038" data-attributes="member: 745"><p>What makes anything a so-called assault weapon(in the vernacular) is not what it is, but how it is used. Drive a nail with a hammer, and the instrument is a hammer. Bash someone's skull with a hammer and that one hammer has been used as an assault weapon(in the vernacular). In the law, it isn't much different as far as the actual use of the device is concerned except the term 'assault' only extends to a threat or an attempt to cause physical harm. Beyond the threat is battery which includes killing, assassination, butcher, dispatch, destroy, massacre, murder, slaughter, and slay. Ergo, no particular class of device can be labeled an assault class. Even in the vernacular, only the actual individual device used to kill, assassinate, butcher, dispatch, destroy, massacre, murder, slaughter, and slay can be properly described as an assault weapon. It's not what it is but how it is used.</p><p></p><p>Makes me wonder why they don't misname those devices as "battery weapons" instead of misnaming them "assault weapons" ... Ah, but that would require knowing the difference between assault and battery; or not trying to promote an agenda.</p><p></p><p>Woody</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ConstitutionCowboy, post: 3263038, member: 745"] What makes anything a so-called assault weapon(in the vernacular) is not what it is, but how it is used. Drive a nail with a hammer, and the instrument is a hammer. Bash someone's skull with a hammer and that one hammer has been used as an assault weapon(in the vernacular). In the law, it isn't much different as far as the actual use of the device is concerned except the term 'assault' only extends to a threat or an attempt to cause physical harm. Beyond the threat is battery which includes killing, assassination, butcher, dispatch, destroy, massacre, murder, slaughter, and slay. Ergo, no particular class of device can be labeled an assault class. Even in the vernacular, only the actual individual device used to kill, assassinate, butcher, dispatch, destroy, massacre, murder, slaughter, and slay can be properly described as an assault weapon. It's not what it is but how it is used. Makes me wonder why they don't misname those devices as "battery weapons" instead of misnaming them "assault weapons" ... Ah, but that would require knowing the difference between assault and battery; or not trying to promote an agenda. Woody [/QUOTE]
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