Virginia Delegate Speaks About Guns for 6 Minutes, Says 0 Accurate Things

Recently there was a pro-2nd Amendment rally in Virginia to protest some gun control laws they were considering passing. You might not remember hearing anything about it, because it was very tame and law-abiding and there were 0 instances of white supremacist violence.

In case you thought maybe the protesters were overreacting and the Virginia state house knew what it was doing, well. . . here’s a video to put those suspicions to rest.

The only thing that makes this video bearable is the snickers and guffaws from the people in the audience who actually know like, four things about guns. Because that’s four things more than Mark Levine. Mark Levine is a man who thinks a pistol grip is a feature on a “weapon of war.” Mark Levine should not be allowed to make decisions about gun legislation.

For my part, I’m not going to point out when he’s wrong about guns; I’ll quote someone who actually knows what they’re talking about. I will, however, point out that when he mentions machine gun use during Prohibition, he mentions Machine Gun Kelly and John Dillinger. John Dillinger had nothing to do with Prohibition, and since that is my single favorite period of U.S. history, I WILL be a pedantic stickler about it.

Anyway, back to the guns.

Virginia Delegate Mark Levine, who represents areas of liberal Northern Virginia, spoke at a town hall on Saturday and when asked to define “assault weapon,” launched into a six-minute speech that provided nothing but misinformation. He begins by reiterating the Democrat talking point that the 1994 “assault weapons” ban reduced gun crimes. It didn’t by any real margin, as the guns banned weren’t typically used in gun crimes to begin with. The Department of Justice produced two studies on the ban to measure its effectiveness and concluded in both that it had little to no effect.

I always wonder, is it willful ignorance or intentional dishonesty that makes them say such blatantly false things? Does Mr. Levine really think this legislation was successful, or does he just really want US to believe it?

Levine then mimics someone holding a “rifle” used for hunting and claims mass shooters don’t want to use weapons like that because “someone could hit the rifle butt against their head – deer don’t do this, elk don’t do this, but humans trying to save their lives do this.”

This is the best part because it’s the first comment he makes where the audience actually just cannot hold back their mirth. WHO SAYS THINGS LIKE THIS AND EXPECTS TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY LOL

He then mimicked what he claimed mass shooters like to use. His body language suggested he was using a fully automatic weapon (he twisted at the hips like he was in some old gangster movie). Fully automatic weapons are not used in mass shootings because they’ve been banned since 1986. Democrats and their media allies like to claim “semi-automatic” is virtually the same as fully automatic, but they’re not. A fully automatic weapon means it reloads and fires repeatedly with one trigger pull. Semi-automatic weapons fire one round per trigger pull.

Ughhh. Outta here with your facts and reality I WANT TO PRETEND GUNS WORK JUST LIKE THEY DO IN THE MOVIES.

Next, Levine claims the Dayton, Ohio shooter was able to shoot “some 75 rounds in less than 30 seconds, shooting 40-odd people while the police were right there.” The gunman actually fired 41 rounds in that time frame (shooting 75 rounds in less than 30 seconds is impossible for a semi-automatic weapon). Even still, the gunmen [sic] was only able to shoot that many because he illegally modified his weapon (meaning he didn’t care about gun laws to begin with).

I’m going to give Levine a pass on this one, because I doubt he has any idea what a round even is.

These are the people enforcing stricter gun control laws. Let that sink in. Or don’t– none of us need a bout of hypertension and partisan rage. Let’s save it for the next gun rights rally.