William Weld, the former Republican governor of Massachusetts selected to be Gary Johnson’s running mate on the Libertarian ticket, just made one of the mind-blowingly stupid comments I’ve heard a politician make regarding firearms, bar none.
16 minutes and 50 seconds into an interview with Revolt TV, Weld dropped this stunning statement.
“The five-shot rifle, that’s a standard military rifle; the problem is if you attach a clip to it so it can fire more shells and if you remove the pin so that it becomes an automatic weapon, and those are independent criminal offenses,” Weld said. “That is when they become, essentially, a weapon of mass destruction. The problem with handguns probably is even worse than the problem of the AR15.”
It’s actually impressive that Weld was able to pack so much idiocy into a disjointed series of utter falsehoods.
Allow me the opportunity to unpack this so you can appreciate Weld’s statement for in all of it’s moronic glory.
“The five-shot rifle, that’s a standard military rifle;
The last five-shot rifle issued to the United States military as a “standard military rifle” was the 1903 Springfield, first adopted more than a century ago and phased out when the semi-automatic M1 Garand was standardized January 9, 1936, nine-and-a-half years before the 71-year-old Weld was born.
the problem is if you attach a clip to it
The aforementioned M1 Garand was the last clip-fed rifle issued to American soldiers.
No modern military firearms (and very few revolvers) are clip-fed. They all use magazines.
I’d further note that you can’t “attach a clip” to a rifle, you insert it, but that’s clearly beyond his grasp.
Rifles and handguns use cartridges, or more colloquially, bullets. “Shells” are a term for either shotgun cartridges or hollowed-out explosive-filled ammunition used by artillery. It’s just awkward.
and if you remove the pin so that it becomes an automatic weapon,
The “very special” Mr. Weld seems to think that a five-shot bolt-action rifle from World War I can be turned into a machine gun by affixing an obsolete ammunition holding device to it a removing a pin.
Mr. Weld seems to be under the impression that all guns are equipped with a magic metal pin that, if removed, will turn them into run-away engines of death.
I wish I was kidding, but I’m not.
So what happens when you put all these elements together, Bill?
“The five-shot rifle, that’s a standard military rifle; the problem is if you attach a clip to it so it can fire more shells and if you remove the pin so that it becomes an automatic weapon, and those are independent criminal offenses,” Weld said. “That is when they become, essentially, a weapon of mass destruction.”
So according to Weld, I can take an old military rifle like a Mosin Nagant…
… attach clips to it…
…pull a pin…
and then it will turn into a chemical, biological or radioactive weapon capable of causing widespread death and destruction.
I think it’s self-evident that Governor Weld doesn’t have the first clue what he’s talking about, and that he’s been sharing a bong with his running mate.
Sadly, after dumping on common rifles in such a mind-numbingly stupid way showing that he knows less about firearms than virtually any politician in the United States today (and that’s saying a lot), Weld then goes on to attack handguns, suggesting that he’d be in favor of banning them as well.
The problem with handguns probably is even worse than the problem of the AR-15.
Weld then went on to state his very anti-libertarian belief that he believed people arbitrarily placed on lists by the government without due process should be stripped of their core constitutional rights without due process.
Why is he on the Libertarian Party ticket?
#1: tpaine To: Y'ALL (#0)
Because todays 'Libertarian Party' is not actually very libertarian. -- Today's american libertarian totally supports/defends our Constitution (excepting income tax).
tpaine posted on 2016-08-15 07:45:26 Reply Private Reply
#2: Stoner To: Deckard (#0)
Yes, it is self evident that Bill Weld is as dumb as a box of rocks
Stoner posted on 2016-08-15 08:03:06 Reply Private Reply
#3: CZ82 To: Stoner (#2)
CZ82 posted on 2016-08-15 17:08:16 Reply Private Reply
#4: Gatlin To: Deckard (#0)
No surprise here. What we have here is another stupid fuckin' libertarian simpleton expounding his blabber from the position of a cultish religion which has no redeeming value and exists only to churn out annoying and despicable flamers acting like nothing more than street-preachers on the wrong information sidewalk. It is hard to understand how libertarians get to the sort of fanatical proselytizing as displayed by Weld, but then I don’t understand the Black Lives Matter movement either….I just see both as unnecessary.
Gatlin posted on 2016-08-15 17:49:43 Reply Private Reply
#5: Deckard To: Gatlin (#4)
This asshole Weld is by no means a libertarian of any stripe - in fact he is the kind of good Republican that you would have no problem supporting had he been running as a R.
Actually, what we have here is a stupid fuckin' simpleton (that would be you) fouling the thread with another bitter screed bashing a concept that he simply does not have the intellectual ability to comprehend.
Deckard posted on 2016-08-15 18:05:38 Reply Private Reply
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BorisY posted on 2016-08-15 18:42:00 Reply Private Reply
#7: Gatlin To: Deckard (#5)
BULLSHIT....he is running as a libertarian, therefore he is a libertarian.
Just ANOTHER stupid libertarian who once posed as a Republican.
The same as Ron Paul ...
Deceitful assholes....one and all.
Gatlin posted on 2016-08-15 19:54:45 Reply Private Reply
#8: GrandIsland To: Gatlin (#7)
Including the rabid followers of ill repute that ruin chit chat channel blogs at FreeRepublic, Liberty Post and this site. You can dress a paultard up, but you can't take them out.
GrandIsland posted on 2016-08-15 20:00:41 Reply Private Reply
#9: buckeroo To: Gatlin (#7)
Sarge ... you have proven yourself to be a horse's ass once again. Eliminating or describing firearms as dangerous is not a libertarian philosophy; it is a contemporary Democratic Party political philosophy. It is shameful you know NOTHING about these parties and continue to post on a chit-chat channel as though you do.
buckeroo posted on 2016-08-15 20:21:37 Reply Private Reply
#10: Deckard To: Gatlin (#7)
Good grief, are you really that stupid?
Just because he is running as a "Libertarian doesn't make him libertarian.
Deckard posted on 2016-08-15 20:25:00 Reply Private Reply
#11: Deckard To: buckeroo (#9)
Don't bother posting facts to Gatslime the simpleton - they only confuse him.
Deckard posted on 2016-08-15 20:26:11 Reply Private Reply
#12: buckeroo To: Deckard, gatlin has become a complete, blubbering idiot. (#11)
buckeroo posted on 2016-08-15 20:27:42 Reply Private Reply
#13: Gatlin To: Deckard (#10)
Then, just because he is running as a libertarian" makes him as stupid as a libertarian.
Gatlin posted on 2016-08-15 21:21:11 Reply Private Reply
#14: Hondo68 To: BorisY, Gatlin, *The Two Parties ARE the Same*, Romney Republicans (#6)
Standard issue Romney Republican.
Hondo68 posted on 2016-08-15 21:26:45 Reply Private Reply
#15: Titorite2 To: Deckard (#0)
Titorite2 posted on 2016-08-15 21:31:52 Reply Private Reply
#16: Gatlin To: hondo68, Deckard (#14)
Not any more. You Paultard assholes own the shithead now. He joins all you kooks in your crazy world.
BILL WELD’S LIBERTARIAN CONVERSION.
Gatlin posted on 2016-08-15 22:34:30 Reply Private Reply
#17: Gatlin To: buckeroo (#9)
Don't tell me that. Tell it to your libertarian asshole buddy who has that stupid idea.
BILL WELD’S LIBERTARIAN CONVERSION.
Gatlin posted on 2016-08-15 22:38:04 Reply Private Reply
#18: buckeroo To: Gatlin (#17)
I am a libertarian; the philosophy is not a political conviction of and about a political party, LIBERTARIAN.
You, as usual, are totally FUCKEDUPPED in expressing some personal opinion because of your ignorance. I laff at you, sarge.
buckeroo posted on 2016-08-15 22:42:47 Reply Private Reply