Posted on 09/18/2004 8:45:20 AM PDT by Founding Father
Had this argument with a Lib Congress-critter from MD. She justified gun control on the basis that she can't control what her son's friends are doing over at the neighbor's house.
I responded that they could also be playing with sex instead of guns, so why not include Gun Safety education along with Safe Sex ed.
She told me to "shut up!". And I was a guest at her dinner table. LOL.
She told me to "shut up!".
Probably the same response she gave her kids when they asked about sex.
Who makes a .22 magnum handgun in semi auto?
"An armed society is a polite society." -- (I forget the author, but not the sentiment.)
Lazarus Long/Robert Heinlein.
Unlucky? He was involved in a burglary earlier that day and was too stupid to know how to safely handle a handgun, which, in this case, was stolen. Luck had nothing to do with it - and, now, the rest of the world is better for not having him on the street...
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She told me to "shut up!".
I didn't know the Widder Heinz moonlighted as a Lib Congress-critter from MD. ;-P
Thanks. Now I remember. Was that in "I, The Jury?" (Just kidding.) Forgot the book. Brain cells blinking off. One by one, like the stars in another story by someone I forgot.
Exactly! Another stupid Criminal removed from the gene pool!
Didja ever notice how the left demands "full-frontal" sex education because "abstinence doesn't work if even one child experiments", but likewise demands zero gun education for fear that it would "arouse temptation"?
AMT
I once watched a man at the range try to fire a complete magazine from a brand new .22 mag pistol of that model without a ftf or a jammed slide. He tried most of the afternoon but never succeeded at anything except turning the air blue with his language. That model pistol was never popular and was dropped from production long before the company folded.
Loose change can always be found under the sofa cushions.....
Same book
I'm sure some people have had wonderful results with AMT products and love their AMT guns, but I haven't met or talked to any of those people myself.
Nightfall, by Isaac Asimov, if I remember right.
I only have experiencewith one example, a .22 mag pistol. It shot ok but hung up a bit. The owner loved it but not my cup of tea.
I very much doubt the validity of that statement.
Along with having a gun, one must be willing to use that gun without hesitation in a situation like that.
That means complete familiarity with their weapon and the confidence that they can hit what they want to hit.
Even most Second Amendment proponents don't spend the necessary time at the range to achieve that confidence.
I support a scholastic program to teach kids about guns, but the love of shooting must a lifelong pursuit.
More associations, like the VFW, the Boy Scouts, the Lion's Clubs, etc., should promote and sponsor shooting events and make them FUN!
Many people, like myself, don't hunt anymore, but everyone can enjoy shooting for the pure pleasure of shooting.
Automag
There already is one. It's called the Second Amendment.
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