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@rarity It does sell, but it can also be used to push an agenda and/or gain support, as Trump proves.
Sunday, 20-Mar-16 02:04:56 UTC from web-
A gun shop had H&K and Beretta guns in a "1911 guns" section. They should have to give them to me for free due to that advertising error. :P
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@m14brony Isn't the 1911 like, basically a class of guns now since tons of manufacturers make them
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@rarity i might be wrong but "1911" refers to tye military designation for tye very first of those pistols, as in m1911.
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@awl well yeah, but I always figured that all of the guns that were visually and functionally similar to the original military hardware are colloquially called "1911s" as well, I may be wrong
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@rarity It refers to a single design of a type of pistol made in 1911. All the others that evolved from that design also have 1911 in their name.
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@rarity "Everyone and their grandma" makes a 1911 variant, but it is a specific model of gun. Everything else (USP, VP9, M92FS, Desert Eagle) was entirely different.
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@colfax I stick to "handgun", "rifle/semi-auto rifle" and "shotgun" for firearm descriptors in my newscasts to keep it simple
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@metaltao It's a "journalist's guide" mocking anti-gun types who want to ban things about which they know nothing.
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@m14brony Trump is the perfect example of ratings being more important that political agenda for the media. All the supposed "liberal" TV channels are all Trump, all the time, helping the mango out of his campaign. I read that news sources have given him what amounts to over a billion dollars in free campaign advertising
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@rarity No. People like his agenda.
That is why he is winning.
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@metaltao yes, but politicians don't get elected if voters don't know who they are. Hence, all the coverage news stations give him amounts to advertising.
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@rarity Everyone knows who Hillary is, and from the hundreds of interviews of Trump supporters shows, they hate Hillary, Ted, and Bernie.
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@rarity Ratings may be a primary aim, but other interests often coincide with such a aim. And let us not forget that liberalism is ultimately a variant of conservatism. As Gore Vidal said, the USA is ruled by one Property Party, and it has two right-wings: Democrat and Republican.
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