Posted on 11/25/2008 6:01:32 PM PST by SJackson
When deer hunting season opens this weekend, Wisconsin’s poor deer hunters are going to be at even more of a disadvantage than usual in their annual attempt to match wits with highly intelligent animals.
This year, deer hunters are going to be burdened by carrying heaping armloads of guns into the woods with them.
Deer hunters and other gun lovers have been absolutely terrified ever since Nov. 4 that President-elect Barack Obama is going to swoop down on their homes and confiscate all their guns.
In a panic, thousands of gun owners have raced to their nearest gun dealers to stock up on handguns, semi-automatic assault weapons and enough ammo to level the entire state of Wisconsin.
One gun dealer called Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden “the most anti-gun people ever to be in the White House.”
Golly, you’d think the late President Lincoln would have been pretty anti-gun. Certainly, his widow sitting next to him at the theater wasn’t a real big fan.
In the first two weeks of November, gun sales and background checks nearly doubled in Wisconsin compared with the same period a year earlier when scary Democrats weren’t being elected. What comes through from these stories is just the opposite of the image gun owners want to project—that they are tough guys ready to shoot it out with any wild thing—man or beast—who crosses their path.
Instead, it turns out gun owners are big scaredy cats.
A majority of us were dancing in the streets celebrating a historic new direction for our country after pointless war abroad and economic disaster at home. But, for gun owners, their first thought was heart-pounding terror that they might not have enough guns and ammo to fend off all the demons that keep them awake at night.
It sort of proves the point Obama once made in an off-hand remark when he said small-town people who feel powerless in our country “cling” to their guns. The National Rifle Association itself was the first to celebrate the clinging phenomenon in a famous bumper sticker about prying guns from “cold, dead fingers.”
If you live in constant fear that someone is going to take all your guns away, you aren’t going to be foolish enough to leave any of them at home when you go up north to hunt deer this year, are you? That’s just what Barack Obama and Joe Biden want you to do.
While your wives are out getting drunk and tucking dollar bills into the g-strings of Chippendales, the Democrats are going to sneak in and clean out your entire arsenals. Gun owners still wake up trembling with fear, remembering the 10 horrible years after 1994 when semiautomatic assault weapons were banned in this country. Not only were assault weapons banned, but so were pistol grips, flash suppressors and bayonet mounts that could be used to convert hunting rifles into military assault weapons.
For 10 long years, gun owners lived in constant fear that godless hordes would attack their homes and get in close enough for hand-to-hand combat at a time when law-biding citizens were forbidden to buy bayonet mounts. President George Bush allowed the ban to expire in 2004 so Vice President Dick Cheney and other hunters in America would once again have the freedom to use any weapons they wanted to shoot their friends.
Actually, President-elect Obama, like most other Democrats, has always proclaimed his support for the Second Amendment and the rights of hunters and other law-abiding Americans to buy, own and use guns. But the gun lobby considers any politician an enemy unless he supports arming every American, drunk or sober, sane or insane. Let the chips—and the bodies—fall where they may.
That’s why really cautious deer hunters are going to be lugging every weapon they can carry into the woods with them. We hope no one drops one on his foot. We wouldn’t want anyone to get hurt by a gun.
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Could be, but he doesn’t look like the traditional marriage type.
Dang, who's got 0% gun financing???
Actually, they're full of people who aren't going to tolerate a bunch of bile from a bedwetter who hides behind a computer/word processor.
I, uh, took the time to register and make a comment at the site. You might like it-short and sweet.
This is the sort of smartass childish taunting that passes for deep thinking among leftist writers. I always wonder if any of these little punks would be brave enough to make any of these remarks to the faces of the people they insult. And the answer is always “NO”.
A majority of us were dancing in the streets celebrating a historic new direction for our country
In 1960 you'd have been hard pressed to find a German who'd admit to voting for Hitler. I wonder if this guy will admit to voting for The Big 0 in 20 years. Bets?
"Running scared"? Not the long time gun owners. Just waiting to see how things turn out.
Joel appears to be a genuine, liberal knuckledragger.
There’s no fool like a loud, obnoxious fool.
That is a lot like an AHO
Aww. It’s cute when small-town op-ed writers get snarky.
Awesome, sounds like good people.
Good Lord, Joel McNally is still around and still has people willing to publish his crap? I thought he died of a drug overdose back in the Sixties.
I've known quite a few. And interestingly enough, they sound a little like Sarah Palin--the one the people on the coasts spend so much time making fun of.
I am reminded of a line from "The Gladiator": The time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end......
To have written this, he must have a serious case of penis envy.
And I’m busy doing the hunting part of deer hunting. This guy needs to be smacked, and as both a hunter and a lady, I volunteer!
He's not a small-town op-ed writer. He's an old line lefty hack who's been around since at least the late 1960s and he's worked for, and been fired from chosen to leave, the Milwaukee Journal, the Madison Capital Times, the Shepherd Express (All all the gay porn you ever wanted!), and now he's a liberal talk show host and "syndicated columnist." I can't seem to find out which syndicate represents him, though, so I doubt it's one of the first, second, or even third-string ones.
In short, he's a total jerk who's still stuck in the 1960s. What's amazing here is that the Janesville Gazette chose to run this column. They must really want to P.O. readers and lose subscribers.
Moron.
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