Comments by "Crazy Eyes" (@CrizzyEyes) on "" video.

@flatebo1 When debating, the objective is never to convince your opponent, it is to convince the audience. Judge van Dyke might have said he never intended for the video to go viral, but he should have, because that's the only way it will have an impact.
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@Talishar Assault rifle is a real term, as much as many contrarians try to say it isn't. It means: 1) intermediate rifle caliber, 2) detachable magazine, 3) select fire. Assault weapon is not and is merely an attempt to muddy the waters by semantic assocation. A military spec AK is definitely an assault rifle. I will say that the term goes all the way back to Nazi Germany, "Sturmgewehr" literally means assault rifle and Hitler himself changed the name of the StG-44 in a propaganda move. It was originally classified as a submachine gun. Although it's a useful classification, "assault rifle" is literally Nazi propaganda.
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Did you miss that the term "assault weapon" was used and not "assault rifle" not to mention the very high likelihood that the AK is not even operable?
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@mattmurphy7030 Assault rifle. Notice how the word "weapon" or "style" doesn't enter into it. Would you also happen to think that "machine gun" and "machine shop" are in any way related, by chance?
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@RoseCityKing "assault weapon" isn't a term with any meaningful definition. "Assault rifle" is, however, they would have to prove that the AK is a pre-ban select fire AK, or that the judge has an FFL and therefore the ability to own machine guns, which he likely doesn't.
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@thomaspike1475 Or, the third option: "assault weapon" and "assault style" are meaningless fear mongering labels. By acknowledging them, you are validating them, which muddies the waters as these terms have no real definition and exist just to scare people whenever it is convenient for the speaker.
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@ Funny how that has nothing to do with what was said in the video.
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@mattmurphy7030 What is an assault weapon? If you can answer that question, which nobody else I have ever talked to can, then sure, I'll say you win. "It includes assault rifles" isn't a good enough answer. Long arms and military grade weapons also include that and yet somehow, everyone knows what those things are.
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@ Because they have ACTUAL DEFINITIONS that we can use to apply to a new gun. If I made a new gun that uses a full-size rifle caliber with select fire, it would be a battle rifle. If I made a new gun that had X, Y and Z properties, it would be an "assault weapon." It's your burden of proof to define what those X, Y and Z are. You are disingenuously conflating the terms assault weapon and assault rifle just like the stupid reporter in this video. The term assault weapon exists purely to loosely conflate the idea of an assault rifle to literally anything in the viewer's mind and for no other reason. It is illegal to own an assault rifle in the US except under very specific circumstances, plain and simple.
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@johnross5909 So what? It isn't fully automatic, unless that judge happens to have an FFL
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@ Firstly, that's a single example of your term, it is by no means a definition. Secondly, the idea that a pistol caliber weapon should be called an "assault weapon" is laughable and disingenuous. I'd call it a piece of shit ghetto blaster that wastes your ammo. How many military forces use Glock 18s again?
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If it has a skeletonized or polymer frame, it's an "assault weapon"
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