The word ‘assault’ is in the news so much as an adjective when in fact,
according to the dictionary, assault is either a noun or a verb.
as·sault
[uh-sawlt]
noun
- A sudden, violent attack; onslaught: an assault on tradition.
- Law. An unlawful physical attack upon another; an attempt or offer to do violence to another, with or without battery, as by holding a stone or club in a threatening manner.
- Military. The stage of close combat in an attack.
- Rape.
verb (used with object)
- To make an assault upon; attack; assail.
To call a weapon an “assault
rifle” would be giving that weapon the ability to create action; it can’t. Only the person using the weapon can
assault. With that in mind, any object
can be used to assault: a rock, a club, a knife, bare hands, etc. Assault is not limited to weapons that use
powder, firing pins, and triggers.
Politicians who push “assault
rifle” bans are either misinformed or are misleading the populace; probably the
latter.
One has to wonder about
this entire scenario where this gun or that gun is banned and where it will
end.
Once one type of gun is
listed as illegal to own, will the criminals stop using that gun? If one type of gun is used to commit a crime
and that gun is no long manufactured, what is to stop someone from using the
next smaller caliber gun? Will that smaller caliber gun then be declared
illegal?
Is the goal to totally
disarm the American people?
Probably. Then the only weapons
out there will be the ones used by criminals and those in power and those
weapons can and will be used against law-abiding citizens.
