Aaand then they go right back to being out of touch. Many people can’t afford to hire mercenary hunters to drive out to the middle of nowhere just to shoot some Wilburs. This sounds like something a parody of a rich person would do in a comedy movie where they’re forced to work on a farm.
Bullets…travel…faster…than the speed…of sound…genius.
Also, night-vision scopes exist.
So if a wild boar is heading for someone’s kid, how exactly should that person react? Just stand there and let Timmie and/or Susie get maimed, at best?
Also, how is “lots of kids die of guns in the home” any sort of counterargument or counterpoint? It’s almost like you’re just hammering to “kids die to guns!” by reflex.
“I’m no hunting expert, but I’m still going to volunteer my opinion on something I know almost nothing about.”
Also, the discussion was about wild pigs, not deer. Feral hogs are, in fact, significantly bigger and tougher than Bambi’s mom. Stop falling back on canned NPC responses and actually think.
Heck, just read the article; it specifically says feral hogs sometimes kill more people than sharks.
I was hoping this was going to actually have a decent argument, say, ex-military contractors have specialized training that a lot of average gun users don’t and would be more effective a deterrent, but it’s literally just “your 2nd Amendment rights are meaningless, so you might as well give up.”
In Australia the increased restriction of semi-automatic rifles changed the way people hunted deer, specifically sambar deer. Because people couldn’t rely on a quick follow up shot if the first was not effective, they shifted to calibres that were very effective. The 9.3x62mm Mauser became popular, a cartridge that was popular in Africa for large and dangerous game, and is used in Europe for boar.
I wonder how they’d react to the alternative to an AR15 being something that could take down an elephant?
Slate’s expert is all
With the same exact counter, too:
like, okay devil’s advocate I’ll stand up for the “no point in an AR, they’ll scatter” guy
picture a long gun that kinda falls into the same role as an AR but isn’t an AR - fires faster than a bolt action, optimized for medium range
you are picturing like what, a lever-action Marlin in 30-30?
and so how is an AR gonna be any better than that? you’ll get off 7 shots rather than 4 with a more consistent sight picture before they make the treeline? On a pack of 30-50 scattering, juking hogs? And you’ll have 23 left in the magazine instead of just 2, cause it’s not like you’re gonna try to lay down unaimed suppressive fire on a bunch of beasts, right?
so what’s an AR give you?
(a richer and cheaper ecology of sights, accessories, and rechamberings, I guess)
