Posted on 02/23/2018 11:21:22 AM PST by DCBryan1
Guns and I go back a long way.
My father was a champion skeet shooter. A picture of him aiming his favorite pump skyward has pride of place in our living room. He owned fine rifles and shotguns, and he valued them.
My first experience with pulling a trigger came late, by family standards. I was already 7 or 8 when my dad and “Uncle” George took me out back of Old Lily’s house and handed me a sawed-off shotgun (illegal then and now) kept handy for woodchucks and rattlesnakes. The recoil didn’t knock me off my feet, but my shoulder ached for weeks.
I’m blessed to have few material regrets, but I still feel a sting when I recall how, after my father’s bankruptcy, we had to sell his guns to put food on the table. Those arms were important to him and, thus, to me.
I served in the US Army, including unforgettable years in an infantry battalion. I fired my share of automatic weapons, from M16A1s to machine guns and even Kalashnikovs. (Let’s not talk about dud-grenade disposal . . .)
And I’m a gun owner. As I write these lines, there’s an 1858 Tower musket behind me and a Colt on my desk.
But I believe, on moral, practical and constitutional grounds, that no private citizen should own an automatic weapon or a semi-automatic weapon that can easily be modified for automatic effects.
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“...The recoil didn’t knock me off my feet, but my shoulder ached for weeks...”
This guy is full of Shiff....
WEEKS?????
LOL
Ralph was a redcoat colonel stationed in the colonies in a former life.
Hey, Ralph? I’m gonna TRUMP you with my Second Amendment Card, K? Try not to get the vapors!
The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads:
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.”
P*ss off.
Well, although I’m now obese, at 12, I was a scrawny kid. That’s when I shot my first 12 gauge. My shoulder didnt hurt for weeks, probably because I was taught how to hold it properly. In fact that first day, I shot that Remington multiple times. Didn’t end up with a bruised shoulder, didn’t get knocked down. I can only surmise that RP is making this story up, or he’s a first class wimp.
[Sorry Ralphie boy, but as of this writing, there are more than 10 million AR-15’s in private hands in this country. So the “genie has been out of the bottle” for a very long time.]
Yep about 56 years and the first one Colt gave to JFK, IIRC.
Who is responsible for this? The murderer is, and the enablers and supporters of the cultural rot that he was indoctrinated in.
That’s nice now STFU Ralph!
What is an “assault weapon”?
It is debated whether the term “assault weapon,” which entered the American lexicon in the late 1980s, originated as a political ploy by gun control advocates or as a marketing ploy by gun retailers. What is certain is that “assault weapon” is not a technical term, a term of art used by firearm manufactures, or a military term. The closest match in any of those categories is the term “assault rifle,” which is a military term referring to a medium-caliber, shoulder-fired rifle that allows the shooter to select between semiautomatic mode (the gun fires one bullet per pull of the trigger) and either fully automatic (the gun continues to fire bullet after bullet as long as the trigger is depressed) or three-shot-burst mode (the gun fires three bullets per pull of the trigger). Because “assault weapons,” as defined by state and federal law, are semiautomatic only and can fire in neither fully automatic mode nor three-shot-burst mode, they are not assault rifles. (THIS article explains the current United States laws restricting civilian ownership of fully automatic/burst-fire firearms—aka machine guns—and explains why those weapons are not part of the ongoing debate over gun control in America.)
Unfortunately, despite both “assault weapon” and “assault rifle” being clearly defined in the Associated Press Stylebook, the media often conflates these two similar-sounding phrases—using “assault rifle” when they mean “assault weapon”—thereby further confusing the public on the relationship between so-called “assault weapons” and true weapons of war. None of the assault rifles found on the battlefields of Afghanistan, Iraq, or Vietnam are available for sale in American sporting goods stores.
All weapons are assault weapons.
Even a toothpick can be an assault weapon.
I doubt he's ignorant of what it means. I think he's just one of those that thinks it would be easier to control us commoners if we would just "evolve" past that old Constitution stuff.
The big-government totalitarian always comes out in this @sshole.
He’s waving his medals in our face & telling us to shut up.
Retired warrant officer here. Lots of field grade officers are full of themselves & think their sierra don’t stink.
Well, I’m a citizen and after seeing two law enforcement agencies and other services that are supposed to “protect us” screw the pooch, it has become even more apprent to me (really, more of a confirmation) that government cannot deliver and it is ultimately my responsibility to protect me and my family. So, stick it in your ear, Ralph. Nobody cares what you think.
My Rights have Nothing to do with
Your Profession Or Your Feelings,
But Everything to do with the
Constitution of the United States!
Ralph Peters, who backed Obama’s adventurism in Libya, and later announced he was supporting Cankles.
This turd has no credibility.
And your profession has nothing to do with my RIGHT.
If you’re a military man, then you should know that assault weapons are banned already, and have been for some time.
Schmuck.
You’ll put your eye out with that line of idiocy, Ralphie.
Lexington and Concord...
Great Point!
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