Ralph Peters (vomitus erectus)
Posted on 02/23/2018 11:21:22 AM PST by DCBryan1
Guns and I go back a long way.
My father was a champion skeet shooter. A picture of him aiming his favorite pump skyward has pride of place in our living room. He owned fine rifles and shotguns, and he valued them.
My first experience with pulling a trigger came late, by family standards. I was already 7 or 8 when my dad and “Uncle” George took me out back of Old Lily’s house and handed me a sawed-off shotgun (illegal then and now) kept handy for woodchucks and rattlesnakes. The recoil didn’t knock me off my feet, but my shoulder ached for weeks.
I’m blessed to have few material regrets, but I still feel a sting when I recall how, after my father’s bankruptcy, we had to sell his guns to put food on the table. Those arms were important to him and, thus, to me.
I served in the US Army, including unforgettable years in an infantry battalion. I fired my share of automatic weapons, from M16A1s to machine guns and even Kalashnikovs. (Let’s not talk about dud-grenade disposal . . .)
And I’m a gun owner. As I write these lines, there’s an 1858 Tower musket behind me and a Colt on my desk.
But I believe, on moral, practical and constitutional grounds, that no private citizen should own an automatic weapon or a semi-automatic weapon that can easily be modified for automatic effects.
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Ralph Peters (vomitus erectus)
This useless pr!ck again!
Cuck
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Well that does it! I guess the debate’s over now. /s
Yes! Triple yawn!
Every citizen in Switzerland has a fully automatic assault weapon IN THEIR HOME to protect the country from invasion. Curiously/s, they have had NO school shootings. Coincidental? I think not.
I don’t give a flying fu@k what Peters says or thinks.
5.56mm
Jesus.
I’ve read A LOT of his stuff since the mid 1980s and I never imagined this.
I don’t care if you’re a “military man”.
I don’t care if your’re a cop, DEA or Secret Service.
My rights have NOTHING to do with your profession.
Who paid him off to say this?
You are,a dumb ass military man if you classify a sem-auto weapon an assault weapon.
NEXT
How about this creep - I don’t believe guys like you should have free speech because you don’t know what to do with it, so let’s ban it for everyone. Makes sense, right? No, it’s stupid, just like banning guns when the problem is mental illness and psychotropic drug use.
We have guns for a reason, hunting is nice, self defense is super, but we have them for protection against a tyrannical government to safe guard all of our hard won and kept freedoms.
“Useless for target shooting”?
WTF, I can shoot a DIME-size group at 100yds with my best AR.
Hunting? Who gives AF about hunting?
Ashamed for this guy.
I am a man born in america and i think we should ban no guns. Stop trying to stack the deck and us “assult” in your description.
I’ve got a couple ex-military buddies that spew similar BS, and worse.
I just tell to em stick a sock in it because nobody cares what a washed-up potato-peeler thinks. lol
So, the NatioalGuard predates the Second Amendment? Learning all the time....
What, I was asleep.
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