What Gun Should I Get?

Townhall.com ^ | July 27, 2015 | Katie Kieffer

[Kaslin]

Dr. Seuss’ new book, “What Pet Should I Get?” inspired me to write a Seuss-style poem from the perspective of a mother who wants a gun to defend her family.

My poem is a plea for 2^nd Amendment rights in the wake of recent mass tragedies committed by Dylann Roof, Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez and John Houser. As you know, I’ve written many columns in defense of gun rights. However, given last week’s tragic shooting in a Louisiana movie theatre, I will try reaching hearts and minds by presenting my facts in a more creative way.

Please share this column with any “compassionate liberals” in your life so that they may see that your ideas come from your heart as well as your mind. Here goes my poem:

What gun should I get? I’ll ask and I’ll ask. I’m up for the task!

Son, what gun should I get? A pistol? A rifle? A shotgun? Tell me, son. Son-of-a-gun.

Daughter, what gun should I get? Yes dear, I know, any new gun will shoot farther than your mother’s old handgun!

Dog, what gun should I get? A toy gun for you to chew and to toss? Or a real gun so that we may safely walk through the forest blanketed with moss?

President Obama, I know you love skeet! Give me advice for choosing a firearm that will help me stand my ground on my own two feet!

“Don’t carry concealed. Call the police,” you say? OK, OK. But how do I call the good folks in blue when a mugger is three steps away from my shoes?

“Then, shout ‘STOP!’” you suggest? I’m trying, I’m trying, to envision that working. But all I can picture is an antagonist lurking in the mist—before I drop to the ground with one quick whoop of his fist.

Michelle, you’re a mother like me. You have armed guards around you and your daughters from dawn until dusk. Surely you will not imitate your husband in being so brusque! What gun should I get for my 18-year-old daughter when she heads off to college?

“Her best defense is pepper spray,” you say? But what if she is raped, I say? How will I live to see another day?

Michelle, tell me why I should reduce my daughter to warding off sexual assault with the dormitory’s wrinkled sheets or the cafeteria’s pickled beets—instead of the proven practice of packing heat?

Back to you, Mr. President. No American president has presided over a deadlier record of mass shootings committed by mentally ill madmen than you. Ignoring the root issue, why do you continue to treat me and other law-abiding gun owners like animals who belong in a zoo?

Major Nidal Hasan. Jiverly Antares Wong.

Jared Loughner. Elliot Rodger. John Houser.

James Holmes. Adam Lanza. Aaron Alexis. Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez. Acknowledge our right to defend ourselves against these madmen, please.

We know that the Charleston, South Carolina shooter popped pills like Xanax and Suboxone before making his kills. When you learn about shooters like Dylann Roof—flying higher than drones before setting their sights on gun free zones—why do you cite false claims about firearms without showing your proof?

Ignore Jonathan Gruber’s manufactured poll telling you that we’re “stupid” and search your soul for more reliable council. You’ll surely realize that more love and more guns is the only way for America to rekindle the peace of the dove.

Mr. and Mrs. President, why won’t you support my desire to purchase a tool to protect my daughter when she heads off to undergraduate school? Instead, I feel like you sometimes choose to reduce my reasonable fears to the level of booze by hosting summits where you and your guests throw back beers.

Since you’re so unkind, I’ll make up my own mind. I have a natural right to defend myself and I will decide on the gun that’s right for me; the gun that will help me to be more free. After all, my family and friends are more precious than popularity. Here is my gun; here is my holster; and here is my paper showing that I am a proud and responsible permit holder!

With my gun secure in its safe and criminals on the loose, I will have peace of mind as I curl up with the new book by Dr. Seuss.

[knarf]

determine purpose

one that fits your hand

Almost all civilian use guns are for protection in the no-more-than-10 yard- range ... and the favorite gun of the close quarter assassin is a .22 ...
determine purpose

A canon doesn't fit in a purse or a waist band ... girls and smaller men have smaller hands

think .... ergonomics

Baseball players have their bat .... golfers their clubs ... bowlers their ball ..... and they were all chosen for the ability to be used by the one that fit the tool

[Joe Boucher]

Kimber .45
it hits what the laser spots real hard

[NTHockey]

But what good does a gun do locked in a safe? Does anyone believe that, if you are being attacked, you will have the time and the discipline to open the safe AND protect?

I realize it is a poem; but gun in a safe is no help.

[trebb]

I realize it is a poem; but gun in a safe is no help.

Same goes for one without a round in the tube.....

[Daffynition]

This article is dumb. As waste of ink.

Gun ownership is a very serious subject ...not something to be taken lightly, as I believe the author, wants to project. It’s not cute. It’s not funny.

Kittens are cute. Dr, Seuss is cute. Guns are serious.

I suggest the author, or her daughter, call 911, when she has a problem.

[Kaslin]

I can see the point locking a gun in a safe if you have children around, as you hear or read so many times that small children get a hold of their father's loaded gun and accidentally kill their sibling or a friend, or even their parent.

On the other hand why bother having a gun anyway if there are no small children around if you have to keep the gun locked in a safe?

[Yosemitest]

"I suggest the author, or her daughter, call 911, when she has a problem."

And while you WAIT for a person WITH A GUN to arrive, to "investing your problem", WHO WILL KEEP YOU AND THE ONES YOU LOVE ,,,, ALIVE ?

You and your's are DEAD DUCKS !


“A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me.”
King George III


The United States Citizens KNOW that they're going to have to fight TYRANTS in their own government.
You can not protect life, without the ability to take life.

While you are WAITING for the police to respond, someone could be losing their life.
All people of a responsible age should be armed.

As EternalVigilance reminded us:

The Second Amendment IS Pro-Life.

"Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these:
First, a right to life;
Secondly, to liberty;
Thirdly, to property;
together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.
These are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation,
commonly called the first law of nature...
In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the entering into society,
to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights;
when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution,
is for the support, protection, and defence of those very rights;
the principal of which, as is before observed, are Life, Liberty, and Property.
If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any essential natural right,
the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation.
The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty,
it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift
and voluntarily become a slave."




-- Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists

Click here to read the 12 page pamphlet.

Let us NEVER FORGET THAT !

Let's subjugate them to OUR end game, DUST!
"COMPROMISE" is a DIRTY word!
People who study the Bible know that COMPROMISE almost always leads to destruction.


It's time to mock the "Gun Control" Zombies!
"Gun Control" is a firm grip, steady breathing, accurate aim (developed by lots of practice), and a slow trigger pull.


The Swiss have got it CORRECT !
We need to learn from the Swiss and implement their "gun control measures" here in the United States right now, today!
These laws are the ones we should shove into the "2nd Amendment Haters" faces.

" Today, military service for Swiss males is universal. At about age 20, every Swiss male goes through 118 consecutive days of recruit training in the Rekrutenschule. ...

Even before required training begins, young men and women may take optional courses with the Swiss army's M57 assault rifle.
They keep that gun at home for three months and receive six half-day training sessions.

From age 21 to 32, a Swiss man serves as a "frontline" troop in the Auszug, and devotes three weeks a year (in eight of the 12 years) to continued training.
From age 33 to 42, he serves in the Landwehr (like America's National Guard); every few years, he reports for two-week training periods.
Finally, from ages 43, to 50, he serves in the Landsturm; in this period, he only spends 13 days total in "home guard courses."

Over a soldier's career he also spends scattered days on mandatory equipment inspections and required target practice.
Thus, in a 30-year mandatory military career, a Swiss man only spends about one year in direct military service.
Following discharge from the regular army, men serve on reserve status until age 50 (55 for officers).

By the Federal Constitution of 1874, military servicemen are given their first equipment, clothing and arms.
After the first training period, conscripts must keep gun, ammunition and equipment an ihrem Wohnort ("in their homes") until the end of their term of service.

Today, enlisted men are issued M57 AUTOMATIC assault rifles and officers are given pistol.
Each reservist is issued 24 rounds of ammunition in sealed packs for emergency use.
(Contrary to Handgun Control's claim that "all ammunition must be accounted for," the emergency ammunition is the only ammo that requires accounting.)

After discharge from service, the man is given a bolt rifle free from registration or obligation.
Starting in the 1994, the government will GIVE ex-reservists assault rifles. Officers carry pistols rather than rifles and are given their pistols the end of their service.

When the government adopts a new infantry rifle, it sells the old ones to the public.

Reservists are encouraged to buy MILITARY ammunition
(7.5 and 5.6mm-5.56 mm in other countries-for rifles and 9 and 7.65 mm Luger for pistols)
which is sold AT COST by the government, for target practice .
Non-military ammunition for long-gun hunting and .22 Long Rifle (LR) ammo are not subsidized, but are subject to NO sales controls.
Non-military non-hunting ammunition more powerful than .22 LR (such as .38 Spl.) is registered at the time of sale.

Swiss military ammo must be registered IF bought at a private store, BUT NEED NOT BE REGISTERED IF bought at a range.
The nation's 3,000 shooting ranges sell the overwhelming majority of ammunition.
Technically, ammunition bought at the range must be used at the range, but the rule is barely known and almost never obeyed.

The army SELLS a variety of machine guns, submachine guns, anti-tank weapons, anti-aircraft guns, howitzers and cannons.
Purchasers of these weapons require an EASILY OBTAINED cantonal license, and the weapons are registered.
In a nation of six million people, there are at least two million guns, including 600,000 FULLY AUTOMATIC assault rifles, half a million pistols, and numerous machine guns.
Virtually every home has a gun.

Besides SUBSIDIZED military surplus, the Swiss can buy other firearms easily too.
While long guns require NO special purchase procedures, handguns are sold only to those with a Waffenerwerbsschien (purchase certificate) issued by a cantonal authority.
A certificate is issued to every applicant over 18 who is not a criminal or mentally infirm.

There are NO restrictions on the carrying of long guns.
About half the cantons have strict permit procedures for carrying handguns, and the other half have NO rules at all.
There is NO discernible difference in the crime rate between the cantons as a result of the different policies.

Thanks to a lawsuit brought by the Swiss gun lobby, semi-automatic rifles require NO PURCHASE PERMIT and are NOT registered by the government.
Thus, the ONLY long guns registered by the government are FULL AUTOMATICS."

The Swiss have got it CORRECT !
Let's adopt THEIR LAWS !

Remember:

The beauty of the Second Amendment is
that it will not be needed
until they TRY to take it.

Read Second Amendment: It’s Not About Hunting, IT'S ABOUT TYRANNY .

[Yosemitest]

Daffy, do you really want you and your's undefended, even for a second?

"In the light of a deadly theater shooting in Lafayette, La.", we MUST go to MANDATORY "Concealed/Open Carry".
EVERY LAW ABIDING Citizen of Legal AGE MUST start carrying a firearm.
The ONLY THING that will deter criminals IS MORE ARMED Citizens !

Hands Off My Gun: Defeating the Plot to Disarm America



More Guns, Less Crime:
Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws, Third Edition
(Studies in Law and Economics)

[mad_as_he$$]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP2t9B5T4ss

[Kaslin]

This article is dumb. As waste of ink.

You are entitled to your opinion.

[Blueflag]

FWIW when the kids were still home I had a “three finger” safe mounted to my bed rail. Three fingers pressed in the right sequence and in less than 10 seconds the Sig, with a round already ‘in the tube’ is in my hand. The tac light is there as well.

Now it’s in the nightstand and the XDS is in the other hidey- hole near the front door.

The 870 is in the rack to the right of the bedroom door.

And there’s the dogs.

[scrabblehack]

Is Dr. Seuss still writiug?
(I assume that the estate accepts submissions)

[BuffaloJack]

> ... I suggest the author, or her daughter, call 911, when she has a problem.
And the 911 first responders can arrive with chalk to outline your body.

[Caipirabob]

All of them.

[Lurker]

Loves me my Kimber.

[fso301]

[bert]

[DaveA37]

“But what good does a gun do locked in a safe? Does anyone believe that, if you are being attacked, you will have the time and the discipline to open the safe AND protect?”..........

Since there are no little ones around our house anymore, mine are NEVER in a safe but located where I can reach them quickly should the need arise.

[Daffynition]

If you really think this sophomoric author really wants to own a gun and train with it, in a way that is necessary. Good luck.