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The M14 with super fast 360 mph bullets is awesome, oh wait

posted 12 years ago by trompos
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Hollywood is almost as bad as the stupid politicians who outlaw guns that they don't understand. This liberal douche is making a movie where he is a hitman and doesn't know a mini 14 when he holds one, and talks about the MV in MPH. Don't they have any advisors? Oh, well I guess no self respecting gun expert would be caught dead on set with George Gloomy.

Reminds me of the idiot congresswoman who said "the thing that goes up" when asked what a barrel shroud was, the very thing she wanted to outlaw. The other idiot who said that she wanted to outlaw bullets that were "heat seeking" and could "cook a deer if shot".

Stupid gun hating ignorant libs.

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[–] JimB-4 12 years ago

Why do I think there are all kinds of things you don't know that any number of people would think you were stupid for not knowing?

How about the fact that the actors don't make up their lines, and script and technicalities are the responsibility of writers and technical advisers, not actors? Or that in Europe the Mini-14 is known as the M-14, even though there is an old American weapon of the same name? Or that MPH is a pretty good way of explaining muzzle velocity to someone who might not grasp the nuances of feet-per-second?

How about the fact that not everything is a liberal conspiracy or a political matter? You really think only liberals can be ignorant? I'm a liberal, gun-owning former Marine Vietnam vet. And somehow I wouldn't mind matching IQs with you.

[–] trompos 12 years ago

Big whoop.

To answer your questions, Hollywood, actors, directors, producers are all guilty of ignorance,

The woman who asked about muzzle velocity was an assassin, she was supposed to low guns. The audience might prefer mph, but what of the inaccurancy of his numbers?

I have never heard of the mini 14 called the m14 in Europe or anywhere else, please provide a source for this claim.

Congrats, you were in Vietnam, war's over, stop trying to impress people by telling them of your service.

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[–] JimB-4 12 years ago

Not trying to impress, trying to make a point that not everything is just one way. People are shocked, SHOCKED that I could have been a Marine Vietnam vet and still be a liberal. There are lots of us. My point is that lumping people into one-size-fits-all categories doesn't serve anyone's knowledge or awareness. For example, I'm also a fundamentalist Christian, and yet I think your signature line is pridefully, arrogantly counter-Christian, as is your approach to online conversation. Not everyone in a category is a cookie-cutter stamp-out. Probably not even you.

[–] Defenseman13 12 years ago

Once I hear some simpleton throw the word "liberal" around, I can be pretty sure that logic has also flown out the window.

The op clearly has no idea what he's talking about.

You have owned him proper, don't even waste another second on this guy. There is no middle ground, things are either in black or white.

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[–] Pregnat_asian_woman 12 years ago

Stop trying to impress people with how much you love your magical sky-dad. ugh. For all your gun knowledge, I'm sure the former Marine knows a bit more about a gun's intended purpose than you do. Gripe if the figure they used was incorrect (or not, the movie's not about the gun or its specifications). It did look pretty sick though, regardless of what it's called or not.

[–] trompos 12 years ago

Yep, bash my religion, very original.

I pity people like you.

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[–] Defenseman13 12 years ago

And he loves insulting people. How very un-Christian of him. He obviously knows as little about his own religion as he does guns and Hollywood.

Oh, way to bash a former Marine and Vietnam Vet. I'm sure your life accomplishments make you the life of the party as well.

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[–] feodoric 12 years ago

Unfortunately, the OP represents what makes Americans the laughingstock of the rest of the world, with official pseudoscientific meetings on Geocentrism in the 21st century (authentic!), and laws that require creationism to be taught as a theory as valid as evolution in schools. Fortunately, however, the situation is not so, and there are plenty of Americans with a rational thinking and good judgement and who are stamped as liberals but nevertheless persist in defending reason against bigotry and are the hopes for that nation, my neighbor of the South...

And of course, narrow-minded neoconservative bozos (no particular example coming to my mind, though...) keep ridiculing anything less white than their bread and will consider a movie such as "The American" as pure *** only because the filmmakers' conception of the guns used in the movie are not up to the NRA standards. Oh well, as Paul the extraterrestrial says in that other movie, "You can never win with these people" (talking about Bible-chewing hillbillies who won't vote Obama because he is a moose-slim and will kill anyone popping their daughter's cherry... with an M-14).

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[–] thelastfaceyouwillsee 12 years ago

Feodoric, I would happily buy you the cold beverage of your choice for that.

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[–] eddiewinehosen 11 years ago

Make that two cold beverages.

[–] Selish70 11 years ago

"Why do I think there are all kinds of things you don't know that any number of people would think you were stupid for not knowing?"

Maybe so. But the OP isn't making a movie about any of those things. I think his point was that if you are going to put yourself in a position where you will basically be telling the whole world you don't know what the *beep* you are talking about then maybe you do 30 minutes worth of research on google.

I realize that people do this on the internet all the time but that, at least, is usually anonymous and at little monetary cost.

[–] kingsx_64 11 years ago

You love jesus AND guns?

did you by any chance bump your head when you were little?

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