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Sen. John Thune says Americans need AR-15s to fend off "prairie dogs."

By Walter Einenkel for Daily Kos

According to both Republican Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado and Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, vermin like “prairie dogs” and “raccoon” are the main targets for people owning AR-15-style, semiautomatic rifles. The longer . 223 bullet round that travels at a far higher velocity than many rifles and handguns, and delivers considerably more foot-pounds of force, is essential for gun-loving Coloradans and South Dakotans in their eternal war against … vermin.

During a Congressional hearing on gun violence, Rep. Buck used some of his time to zoom in from his kitchen and say that AR-15s were needed to stop raccoons “before they get to our chickens.” He wasn’t making a joke. This poorly written script, possibly jotted down with bloody hands by some whiskey-soaked gun lobbyist for Buck to read, was his excuse for how AR-15s—a gun that was manufactured with the military in mind—is a normal civilian firearm. Buck’s position, like most NRA stoolies’, is not shocking.

Buck is one of those perverse new Republican representatives that believe they should be allowed to strap on their garishly-painted guns and walk around Congress.

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020, after voting against funding to help Americans dealing with the then-new pandemic, Buck tweeted out a threat aimed at Democratic candidates (at the time) Joe Biden and Beto O’Rourke, where he gripped an AR-15 in his congressional office, like he was terrified there were raccoons running rip-shot through the hallways.

The AR-15 is called the “most popular rifle sold in America" by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, and they should know as they make all of their money promoting guns.

While proponents of the gun will offer up that the relatively small size of the . 223 used by the AR-15 makes it a great varmint control gun— the problem is, it’s also a damaging, easy-to-use, and easy-to-get weapon for hunting people.

[dailykos.com]

LiterateHiker 9 June 8
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Today, on NPR, it was said this weapon decapitated some of the children's heads in the elementary school shooting. Obviously to some scumbags eliminating Prairie Dogs is more important than small children keeping their heads.

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Maybe he is competing for "street cred" against MTG.

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I want to know how all these seemingly-adult people were hypnotized. Just WTF did Putin's crew extract from the RNC servers in 2016?

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It's only humans that think prairie dogs are vermin. Those little critters keep the ecosystem healthy.

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It's ridiculous.

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There are bolt action 223s, the idea that an AR-15 is required to shoot vermin is either shockingly ignorant or deliberately disingenuous.

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OMG, I can't believe the obtuseness of elected officials. The only purpose of an AR15 is to inflict massive damage. They need to put pictures of the bodies of the school shootings on television, that would horrify the population really fast. It would also traumatize everyone else, but what is a little collateral damage when children have been killed. NO ONE needs an AR15, ever! If someone wants to handle an AR15 let them enlist and handle the first cousin of the AR15, the M16A1 rifle. That is locked in the Arms Room while it isn't checked out to be used for training. They are highly controlled, as is the ammunition.

After all, the need for guns is for a "well regulated militia". Let's get some good regulations

Just saw this since posting the comment above
it points out the same thing [theatlantic.com]

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HELL, NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A 22 caliber rifle with "long rifle" ammo works just fine and is much less dangerous .

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