Posted on 11/27/2007 9:53:11 AM PST by baldeagle390
About 650,000 armed men have been roaming around Wisconsin the last few days. Yet there are no reports of any of them killing each other intentionally and, as of Monday, only one had died in an accident. Yet, we are lectured over and over by the liberal apologentsia that the reason there’s so much violence in urban America is because of easy access to guns. Yeah, then how come the deer hunters aren’t killing each other? In fact, Wisconsin’s deer hunt is everything Milwaukee’s central city isn’t. Despite the often heavy drinking, inevitable tensions between close family members, squabbles over who has a right to hunt where, pressure to get the big buck and the sheer firepower of the average deer rifle, incidents almost never occur. As of Monday evening, there was a lone single fatal accident.
The clichŽ that "guns don’t kill people, people kill people" sounds trite but the peace of the Wisconsin deer hunt proves its truth. The shooting gallery in Milwaukee’s central city and near south side has nothing to do with access to guns and everything to do with a breakdown of culture. The fact that the majority of the criminals are black or Hispanic has gagged white liberals into silence about the real problems. Black leaders, with the rare exception of a Bill Cosby or Sheriff David Clarke, are nonexistent. In the meantime, tens of thousands of kids are being raised without fathers by young mothers. Many of those moms are themselves on drugs or involved in crime. Gang leaders rule neighborhoods. Yes, they use guns. So do the deer hunters. The difference is that the deer hunters have values and responsibility.
Good article.
I believe this article is exactly to the point and that is that people kill people, not guns.
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It is a good article, thanks for the ping.
If you’d like to be on or off this Upper Midwest/outdoors/rural list please FR mail me. And ping me is you see articles of interest.
For the record, how did the “lone” death occur?
Just bought my 11 year old stepson his first .410 this past weekend for Christmas.
David R. Ruck, 18, of Saxeville was shot in the leg and groin in Waushara County Sunday morning and died at a Neenah hospital. Authorities said his 63-year-old grandfather, Gerald Ruck of Three Lakes, shot him when he mistook the teen for a deer.
David Ruck was wearing the required blaze orange clothing, but he had wrapped himself in a brown blanket as he walked out of the woods.
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A man shot his late teen grandson who had apparently wrapped himself in a tan blanket, opening day I believe.
It's an urban paper so yes, for a lot of people reading the article it's new ground. Which many likely don't believe. It's important the message get out.
Thanks, how horrible and sad, the man should have never been hunting seeing as he was shooting at something he clearly couldn’t see well.
You could not be more wrong. The "legal process" does nothing. Either a person is responsible or not. The gun or the governemnt's stupid "process" are not even part of the equation.
Note, here in Texas there is no "legal process" other than minimum age to go thru to buy a shotgun at all. This alone refutes you entire point.
The legal process I refer to is to be eligible under ATF 4473. Nothing more. As it should be.
Quinn's First Law: Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent. Similarly, government bureaucracies never solve problems, they manage them and exacerbate the ones they created by interfering with market forces and processes.
The only thing the background checks do is make it harder for law-abiding citizens to purchase certain guns quickly. Criminals will get their guns, regardless of the laws out there, by breaking the laws they don't follow in the first place. Which is the nutshell of the article. Deer hunters follow the laws in place, criminals with guns don't.
“Just bought my 11 year old stepson his first .410 this past weekend for Christmas.”
I’m 70 years old today, and the most important gift I received in life was the gift of hunting. Your step son will thank you all of his life.
To buy a shotgun there is no ATF 4473. As it should be and as it should be with all weapons.
You miss the point entirely. The government and stupid forms do nothing concerning the availability of weapons and their use.
Availabilty and / or the governemnt has nothing to do with inner city garbage killing each other.
That is the entire point.
I remember one holiday season, my brother in law, an entrenched elitist liberal, was talking about gun control.
He said no one needed a semi-automatic rifle. I asked him to describe exactly what a semi-automatic was. He gave me a sheepish look and admitted he didn’t know.
I went on to tell him that “semi-automatice” simply meant that a new cartridge was loaded when the previous one was fired - one pull, one shot - and that most deer rifles operated that way as well.
It showed him that he didn’t have any basis for his opinion, but, libs are highly impervious to reason and facts.
A Carhart costs $1,000??!
Who knew?!
Well said- hope they all are successful in getting their deer and that it passes the test for CWD. Venison tastes sooooo good.
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