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Offline WingNot

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Which Vehicles Should Be Labeled "Assault Weapons"?
« on: April 26, 2018, 01:34:18 pm »
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Following Monday’s mass mayhem in Toronto that saw ten people killed and 15 others injured by a madman driving a rental van, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is challenging authorities and the liberal media to start using the term “assault vehicle” or simply call these killing machines “assault weapons.”
“What happened in Toronto Monday was a horrible tragedy,” noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “Fatal vehicle attacks have been increasing. The 2016 Nice terror attack killed more than 80 people. Last year a man driving a rental truck killed eight people on a bicycle path in New York City. Also last year, 13 people were killed in Barcelona, eight more died in a car attack in London and four were killed in Stockholm. If a gun had been the weapon instead of a vehicle, all of those would have been mass shootings.

“How should we define an ‘assault vehicle,’” he wondered. “Is it a van or truck? Does it have a high-powered engine? Does it have an automatic transmission? Can it be fitted with a high capacity fuel tank? Do they all come in solid black, or are other colors available? Can they be equipped with large mufflers to suppress engine noise? Once we define them, should we ban them, require special training to operate them, or just raise the age limit to buy or rent one?

https://www.ccrkba.org/after-toronto-attack-ccrkba-asks-if-vehicles-are-assault-weapons/
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Re: Which Vehicles Should Be Labeled "Assault Weapons"?
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2018, 04:01:48 pm »
These are assault vehicles---assaults on my eyes, that is . . .









Tell me this one doesn't remind you of "Teeth Malloy" from the old Bugs Bunny gangster cartoon:

















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« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2018, 04:07:41 pm »
WTF? The MKT is a nice car.

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« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2018, 05:02:07 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on April 26, 2018, 04:07:41 pm
WTF? The MKT is a nice car.


The grille on that one kills its look.

This one's a lot more better . . . doesn't have the Teeth Malloy look . . .



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Re: Which Vehicles Should Be Labeled "Assault Weapons"?
« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2018, 06:56:17 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on April 26, 2018, 04:07:41 pm
WTF? The MKT is a nice car.


Bill Conrad wouldn't be caught dead in that POS.  Joe Penny maybe. 
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Re: Which Vehicles Should Be Labeled "Assault Weapons"?
« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2018, 07:12:52 pm »
@EasyAce You forgot:

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Re: Which Vehicles Should Be Labeled "Assault Weapons"?
« Reply #6 on: April 26, 2018, 07:13:48 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on April 26, 2018, 04:07:41 pm
WTF? The MKT is a nice car.


I believe following the lead of BMW, most car companies decided they needed really distinctive grilles.

Ford must have usede Aztek focus group, for the Lincolns.
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Re: Which Vehicles Should Be Labeled "Assault Weapons"?
« Reply #7 on: April 26, 2018, 07:16:39 pm »
Unsafe at any speed.

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Re: Which Vehicles Should Be Labeled "Assault Weapons"?
« Reply #8 on: April 26, 2018, 07:20:52 pm »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on April 26, 2018, 07:12:52 pm
@EasyAce You forgot:


Look again. It was the fourth one from the top in my original post. Might even have been from the same photo shoot!
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« Reply #10 on: April 26, 2018, 07:30:54 pm »
Quote from: truth_seeker on April 26, 2018, 07:13:48 pm
I believe following the lead of BMW, most car companies decided they needed really distinctive grilles.

Ford must have usede Aztek focus group, for the Lincolns.
@truth_seeker
They worried about distinctive grilles long before that . . .


(Talk about needing dental work!)








(One of the cars to which Norman Mailer once compared the Playboy Bunny costume: . . . each breast looked like the big bullet on the front bumper of a Cadillac.)













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« Reply #11 on: April 26, 2018, 07:37:48 pm »
God help us.

First the smog they produced was going to kill us all, so they made them lighter.
Now a fender bender is dangerous, and some nut cases are using them as steam rollers.

Let's just ban them all.

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Re: Which Vehicles Should Be Labeled "Assault Weapons"?
« Reply #12 on: April 26, 2018, 08:03:13 pm »
Quote from: EasyAce on April 26, 2018, 07:20:52 pm
Look again. It was the fourth one from the top in my original post. Might even have been from the same photo shoot!

It sure was.  In my defense, I was overwhelmed by all the ugly in that post.  It was like every female Democrat politician ever was trotted out on a catwalk display.
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Re: Which Vehicles Should Be Labeled "Assault Weapons"?
« Reply #13 on: April 26, 2018, 08:04:07 pm »
Quote from: EasyAce on April 26, 2018, 07:30:54 pm
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They worried about distinctive grilles long before that . . .


True enough, but the American makers, once great, forgot most of what once made them so.

So when they reinvented themselves, they used BMW often as a standard of excellence.

Bob Lutz admitted it to be true. But Pontiac couldn't be saved by merely a BMW copy grille.

Too bad, since the (Australian) GTO was a decent car for the day.
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Re: Which Vehicles Should Be Labeled "Assault Weapons"?
« Reply #14 on: April 26, 2018, 08:25:11 pm »
Quote from: truth_seeker on April 26, 2018, 08:04:07 pm


Too bad, since the (Australian) GTO was a decent car for the day.

The Holden was a great car.

Edit to add:  The Commodore I believe?
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Re: Which Vehicles Should Be Labeled "Assault Weapons"?
« Reply #15 on: April 26, 2018, 08:30:27 pm »
A very sad era of automotive design.

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Re: Which Vehicles Should Be Labeled "Assault Weapons"?
« Reply #16 on: April 26, 2018, 08:33:25 pm »
Assaulting those inside or outside the vehicle?
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Re: Which Vehicles Should Be Labeled "Assault Weapons"?
« Reply #17 on: April 26, 2018, 08:39:21 pm »
Quote from: truth_seeker on April 26, 2018, 08:04:07 pm
But Pontiac couldn't be saved by merely a BMW copy grille.
Pontiac essentially was killed by the Aztek; nobody would trust the marque that had GM's best and brightest designing a car
that failed that spectacularly, and GM didn't help matters when it finally junked the Aztek in favour of the Torrent---which was
nothing more than a rebranded Chevrolet Equinox. It took five years and the hope of a government loan to put Pontiac into
its grave, but the Aztek should have been tried by jury for firing the fatal bullet.
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