No, I said, "Nobody needs armor piercing rounds for hunting. On the other hand, the second amendment is not about the rights of hunters and target shooters."
The second sentence is so important to my meaning that to only quote the first is to distort what I said.
10 posted on 02/26/2004 11:27:02 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
When I saw the "Paleo said: "Nobody needs armor piercing rounds for hunting."" I had to go and see if you had actually said it. Thank goodness for what you did say. I was about to rush some strong coffee over to you because you've never been that far out of whack before, late at night or early in the morning.
Glad to see you made your own coffee this morning. LOL
You are right. You were absolutely hammered on that first sentence and I was one of them. I saw the second but when you open up with "Nobody needs armor piercing rounds for hunting." which is such a classic kneejerk gun-control type phrase it needs to be shot down. Sorry you were flying the plane.
Apparently you want to disenfranchise people who want to hunt rock chucks in boulder fields. /sarcasm
Whole lot of jumping going on lately.
Regardless, there are millions of people who see it that way, and you're not going to change their minds.
However, a law that prohibits them from using their rifles anymore for hunting or target shooting -- which is precisely what this law will accomplish -- might very well wake them up.
And that's IMO exactly why they're soft-peddling it, rather than shouting it from the rooftops as they usually do. This time it's not about creating a boogeyman to scare the soccermoms. Nope, this time it's for real. It's about unloading the deer rifles. Gotta do that job quietly, lest they wake up millions of traditionally complacent hunters and target shooters.
Well, I say wake 'em up.