Comments by "Jack B" (@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing) on "VICE News"
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Key categories of military purpose rifles/weapons excluding cannons and dedicated GP machine guns:
1. Assault rifle. Tailored for the Offense, meant to provide high volume, rapidly employed fires while on the move towards and inside of objectives. Characterized by lighter weight, higher capacity, mid range kill power. M4/M16/AK-47/M1 Garand (for it's time). You would not be wrong to put the civilian term "carbine" in here.
2. Battle rifle. Tailored for the Defense, meant to provide accurate, hard hitting long distance fires from stable positions. Higher weight, lower capacity, longer range, higher caliber. M14/FN-FAL/SMLE
3. Precision rifle. Most commonly adapted from civilian hunting platforms for prosecuting single high-payoff personnel targets. High caliber single shot lethality, deliberately restricted from volume fire or rapid maneuver, used from increased standoff compared the Battle Rifle by specialists either organic to the unit or operating alone. Remington 700 (M24/M40)/M25 (repurposed M14)
4. Anti-Materiel Rifle. By purpose meant to engage equipment and vehicles, personnel at ranges beyond standard precision and battle rifles, and for the destruction of explosive devices. Extreme range, multi-payload family Macro caliber rounds, extremely high weight and extremely low mobility. You wouldn't use this to shoot up a nightclub, but for assaulting an individual who was well protected at long range. M107A1 .50/NTW-20 20mm.
5. SMG. Submachine gun. Pistol redesigned to handle immedate, very close range high volume fire for assault in enclosed areas, defense when a rifle isn't feasible (pilots), and in civil actions such as policing and urban pacification, and silenced black operations. Small (pistol grade) ammunition, ultra low weight, concealability and suppression, high capacity, low accuracy, low penetration. Semi automatic versions in the civilian marketplace are labeled as "PDW's", personal defense weapons.
So? What is an assault rifle? It's a rifle suitable for fast Warfare purposes, where you go to the people you kill quickly, with enough power to kill alot of them in a short period of time. Big, small, short, long. Doesn't matter. You can move fast with it to your targets, it's high capacity with a rapid fire rate at average rifle distances and below with reasonable expectation of lethal hits bullet-for-bullet. It's for ASSAULTING, not defending.
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I spent a year being educated into the LDS faith because I was engaged to a Mormon, her parents were moderate Mormons, and her grandparents were very wealthy orthodox Mormoms. So the pressure started for me to assimiliate. And I gave it a shot. Coming from an old school Catholic family, it didn't seem particularly daunting.
And I loved the local Bishop, he was an oddball for Mormon orthodoxy. He was an Army chaplain (I was in the Army) and liked to curse from time to time me when the hat came off. A closet Jack Mormon. But as I spent a year of mornings in seminary classes with the counselors, I came to understand that they operate like the Scientologists. They slowly, perniciously disclose their beliefs, and after a while I started to understand all the dark points of view they held. No, not the polygamy that everyone associates with them. It's racism and what all those "missions" are all about. They aren't trying to save anyone, they had a core belief that you can't go to hell until you have been offered the opportunity to convert. If you don't convert, THEN you can go to hell. And I was going to be expected to go on a mission in order to get married in Temple. They are sending missionaries abroad in order to condemn people (particularly blacks in African countries) to hell.
This blew my fucking mind when it finally dawned on me. My fiance's little sister was watching a seminary childrens program that had puppets like Sesame Street, but then a homeless Black puppet was on the screen approaching a child. That was Satan, according to her mother. Because Satan is black and black people are the cursed descendants of Cain. There is an active eugenics thing going on in that church, a white Eugenic program where they bring acceptable people and families to Salt Lake by using that tithe money to buy them houses. In church, Mexican converts were present, but they sat in the back and they only were there because they were migrant farm workers working on my fiance's Grandparents farm. They HAD to go to their church. The richest families that had the most to tithe sat in the front.
It was fucking crazy once you realize what you're looking at. But they're smart enough to keep themselves mysterious. Today I simply identify as comfortably agnostic, now that I've seen what a tribalist church does when it influences a government.
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I lived on Kodiak with my step dad when I was young. Guy owned 2 commercial fishing rigs. I didn't know it at the time, and you wouldn't have known it to look at him, but he was filthy rich. The money he paid to the state to permit those 2 boats and crews each year was a fortune in and of itself, not to mention what was invested into those boats, nets, and paying crew.
So when I see our captain here, I see not just Morgan in his waders, I see it's about local millionaires taking on oil company billionaires.
In that contest, I still side with Morgan, simply as a matter of corporate creep, but guys like him will overfish if it makes him more money as well.
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