Posted on 12/27/2015 6:26:57 PM PST by smokingfrog
I am a lifelong sportsman. I grew up in Texas, hunting with my Dad. I'm not sure if I learned how to ride a bike or shoot a gun first, but it was close either way. In addition to creating lifelong memories shooting and hunting with my father, I was educated on gun safety from a very early age. I was taught well, and became a very responsible gun owner and enjoyed sport shooting and hunting into my adult years.
But then something started to change. I don't quite know what happened; it just seemed that firearms started becoming faster, more powerful and more plentiful. Mass shootings became more common and much deadlier.
Then, in 2012, Sandy Hook happened.
I had recently become a father, and like every other father I hugged my kid just a little tighter that night. Then I walked into the living room, and started to cry. All those children, not much older than my daughter, murdered. Humans have a unique capacity for being truly awful to each other, but a more senseless tragedy cannot be imagined.
That night, I called a few of my friends who I knew to be responsible gun owners and gave away the guns I owned.
(Excerpt) Read more at houstonchronicle.com ...
He pulled that load of horse squeeze right out of his vagina.
So we should base all of our laws on the basis of the actions of criminals and madmen? Great “thinking” there Mat.
Ban cars because of the woman in Vegas who mowed down people on the strip. Makes as much sense ahole.
I’m a life long Republican, I’m a Rush fan,
Does this guy live in a vacuum? We have so many gun laws they are overbearing to the law-abiding gun owner. The problem is not gun laws. The problem is lack of enforcement of some of the laws we already have. This guys' been drinking some of the town lake water in Austin.
Probably been drinking some water from near the bat bridge. He’s obviously a moonbat.
Why does Mat not cry about the tens of millions, probably 150 million citizens killed by their own leftist governments in the last 100 years. Then he should realize that gun confiscation is about step 1 in the leftist agenda. Then he should look at himself in the mirror and know what he should do for the benefit of humanity.
This idiot repeated "common-sense" several times but didn't have the principle to state just what he wanted to see implemented.
Universal Background checks, no doubt.
Then gun registration would be next.
And we all know what happens after that...
lol
“firearms started becoming faster”
Gee. I didn’t know they ran.
The Second Amendment isn’t even much about protecting one’s family.
It is about the citizenry’s ability to forcibly overthrow totalitarian government.
Doubt it .... probably hired a private militia.
I CALL BULLCRAP!
Mat,
Given the recent vehicular slaughter by a deranged woman in Las Vegas, I suggest you give up all of your cars. You know, until all drivers act responsibly. I know you’ll want your cars back too, but by giving up your cars, you’ll be acting “responsibly” AND it will allow you to write another ridiculous article like this one about doing stupid, pointless things for stupid, pointless reasons that will change absolutely nothing, except perhaps inconvenience yourself for no good reason whatsoever.
Confessions of a sissy. Wonder how much peer pressure from his fellow leftie Austinians was involved?
Violent home invasion where your wife, children is raped and killed. Husband/father alive but wishing he wasn’t .
More die this way than in mass shootings.
Fraudulent story created from whole cloth.
Well ....
He may have had a couple of airsoft guns.
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