"Lord, make me fast and accurate."
"Aim small, miss small."
Posted on 06/11/2006 8:41:04 AM PDT by Conservative Goddess
I have a terrible confession to make. You see, even though I am not a hunter, never really considered Charlton Heston a very good actor and only recently joined the NRA—mainly so I could wear their cap and annoy my liberal acquaintances—I have no objection to my fellow citizens owning guns.
Understand, I am referring to decent, law-abiding people who realize that this is a rather violent society and that the police can't be everywhere at once. Without weapons, how are people supposed to protect themselves from rapists, killers and home invaders?
With a kazillion guns already in circulation, Brady Bill or no Brady Bill, I'm afraid we'll never again see the day that criminals have to make do with rocks and sharp sticks.
Oddly enough, it's often the very same people who get irate about their neighbors having the means to defend themselves who are the folks most opposed to mandatory sentences for gun-toting felons. It's as if they're against the possession of guns by amateurs but hate the idea of denying professionals the necessary tools of their trade.
However politically correct one chooses to be, the fact remains that in those states where people are allowed to carry weapons crime statistics plummet. And for once, statistics are borne out by common sense. After all, if you're a punk looking to mug someone, it figures you'll think twice if there's a good chance your intended victim is better armed than you.
But where guns are concerned, statistics and common sense rarely have the power to sway a liberal’s opinion. They simply won’t accept the idea that guns are ever used defensively to safeguard the innocent. So far as they’re concerned, the Founding Fathers were all drunk the day they drafted that part of the Bill of Rights having to do with bearing arms.
In terms of public relations, I think it would be wise if just once when some kid blasts a schoolmate Michael Moore and the rest of the anti-gun crowd didn't take such obvious delight in using the incident to beat the opposition over the head. In a nation of 300 million people, probably close to 10 percent of whom are here illegally, bad stuff is going to happen. It's a rotten shame, but it's unavoidable. Believe me, schoolyard bullies and math exams are a far bigger source of terror to most of our kids.
There is conclusive proof that the anti-gun zealots are less concerned with the safety of young people than they are with their own holy mission; otherwise, they would put guns on the back burner and concentrate, instead, on getting teenagers off the road. In a country where millions of adolescents are encouraged to start driving cars—cars fueled by a deadly mixture of gasoline and high-octane hormones—one can only laugh at the anti-gun crowd's pretense that public safety is their number one priority.
The battle, for the most part, comes down to liberals vs. conservatives. As usual, liberals turn their backs on common sense, preferring to appear compassionate.
Because they are stuck with an agenda, liberals are forced to parrot anti-gun propaganda even when, like the late columnist Carl Rowan and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, they, themselves, are discovered to be packing heat. And surely I wasn't the only person who yawned when Sharon Stone made such a big deal out of turning in her three roscoes. The point might have been made more forcefully if her bodyguards had turned in their artillery.
Do I think everyone should have a gun? Of course not. But is that something that keeps me up nights? Hardly.
Of far greater concern to me are the yahoos driving around in those lethal, over-sized, gas-guzzling, lane-straddling sport-utility vehicles. Armed with a feisty attitude and a few tons of steel, every soccer mom has become a full-fledged menace to society. I swear, there are more tanks to be found in the parking lot at the local supermarket than Gen. George Patton had to face during the entire North African campaign.
Burt Prelutsky has been a humor columnist for the L.A. Times and a movie critic for Los Angeles magazine. He is the author of Conservatives are from Mars (Liberals are from San Francisco).
"One of ours wanted to get guns out of the hands of drunk drivers.
I heard it and I still can't figure it out."
It is easy to understand. That "Person of Concern" is deeply disturbed that drunks with a gun in both hands probably can't steer the car.
;-)
But our problems are reversed. I really like shooting his rifle.
L
Just curious. What kinda vitamins do you all take?
Look at my homepage....where you will see pictures of my Suburban....and the Freightliner with which I had a head-on collision. The suburban saved my life. I now drive a 6.0 L Turbo Powered Excursion....and I love it. From my cold dead hands....
I meant to say his eleventh Christmas.
LOL.
L
I think he's just sucking up to his mother when he says he likes her Mini-14 better than my AR.
I just picked up an AK last week. I'll let you know what he thinks about that after we heat it up.
L
"like the late columnist Carl Rowan and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, "
Ah damn, for a fraction of a moment I thought maybe Swinestien had died!
Oh.
Darn.
I take Vitamin C, and E, and I use Cayenne capsules, Lecithin, garlic pills, and a host of other concoctions.
I got a ways to go to catch up with a hundred and eleven. I'll let you know how it works out in about five decades.
Why own an SUV?
Hold a Tennis ball over a basketball. Drop them together.
Guess which one goes further? Which one do you want to ride?
Just a hint. Try this outside.
"We had a state legeslator (guess which party) suggest that all cars in NM should have brethalyzer interlocks installed."
Heck, I think it's a great idea...
...as long as they put them on state legislators' cars first, AND insist that the state legislators' voting buttons in the House and Senate have the same sort of interlocks (no more voice votes).
"Aim small, miss small."
bttt
LOL!
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