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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From warrior to wussy whackjob. I have to wonder if any “military man” who would so quickly and easily give up his constitutional rights actually knew what he was fighting to protect.
He trots out the old “well regulated militia” means National Guard BS too. Well regulated at that time meant well supplied rather than an arm of the Federal Government. It’s a miracle this guy even made Colonel when he’s that ignorant of the Constitution he swore to protect and defend.
I used to follow, and appreciate, what Col. Peters had to say. Then about two years ago he went off the rails. And he endorsed Hillary for president in 2016.
Global Warming must be interfering with his thought process.
“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.”
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. Then there’s AK’s, AR-10’s and other similar weapons in large numbers too.
So when the “ban” takes place, you can send chicken$hit cops around like the one who ran and hid when the shooter was active in Parkland, to “confiscate” these weapons. Better have a porta pottie available for his first “house call.”
Ralph Peters has jumped the shark and gone totally insane.
He is also a lying tool.
Sales of assault weapons and machine guns are already banned and have have been since 1986
There is no record of an assault weapon being used in the commission of a crime in the US in the last 25 years
The Brits came to Lexington to confiscate all weapons - even cannon.
I own NO guns and I disagree.
I stand by my gun rights regardless.
At least Fox News got rid of him. My chronic case of remote control thumb has improved a bit since his departure.
Just another Never Trumper getting his just desserts.
S3 stated that since the illegal mfg and possesion was done by a person NOT in the National Guard, he was not "in the militia".
So I take the stand and it is found out that I'm the XO for the S2 MI BN and I pretty much said, "The LTC is full of shit". "The militia act of 1908 created the National Guard, not the 2nd Amendment. The guns we have in our armory are on federal property, funded by the feds, stored by the feds, and if anything bad happens, under both federal and UCMJ jurisdiction".
As a little 03, I pretty much made his testimony look like a total anti gun fluff piece, which it was. I got called into the 06's office on that one, and was verbally counseled on working on my tact and candor on superior officers. The 05 S3 was counseled on getting a history book and reading it as suggested by me.
Every citizen in Switzerland has a fully automatic assault weapon IN THEIR HOME to protect the country from invasion
And at least 750 rounds of government issued, fresh ammo for that weapon
Ralph Peters...a military intelligence officer who got to serve in an infantry battalion as the S-2. Infantry guys let him fire their weapons a couple of times and he’s an expert on automatic and semi-automatic fire. Not sure where he gained his knowledge on the US Constitution.
Automatic rifles are essentially banned.
He doesn’t seem to know that.
Someone should ask him how many times automatic weapons have been used in crimes in the last 40 years.
Once I think. North Hollywood incident.
Bump stock used once, by Paddock.
Lost me there.
The man who never met a war he didn’t like has no problem throwing our young people into every meat grinder around the world.
To: DCBryan1
Every citizen in Switzerland has a fully automatic assault weapon IN THEIR HOME to protect the country from invasion. Curiously/s, they have had NO school shootings. Coincidental? I think not.
9 posted on 2/23/2018, 2:24:50 PM by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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I didn’t know this, likely many other too!
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I had a twenty-some year Army vet throwing lead at a trail I was walking on. Flanked him, and he was teaching his boys to shoot... by shooting at water. I told him he should ‘t be shooting in that direction, and he said “Why not? What’s down there?” Genius.
If that's what the Founders really wanted, then the 2A would read:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the individual states to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
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But of course the 2A doesn't say that. It says "the right of the PEOPLE...".
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