Post by elalacran on Dec 18, 2012 12:44:36 GMT -5
What the Sam Hill? We've gone from gun ownership and use being inviolable and politically correct to -- days later -- guns and ammo being anathema. It almost, not quite, makes me want to join the NRA.
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012 ... s-on-guns/
So the venture capital group that owns Bushmaster is selling that company? Well, one can understand the economics of the decision though maybe the better contrarian approach would be to hold on and wait and see, but if a Bushmaster rifle filled a consumer need a week ago it should today regardless of what happened at a school in Connecticut.
And dropping the Bushmaster (if that happens) will not reduce the likelihood of violence.
That kid didn't have to use a Bushmaster to shoot down a classroom full of tykes. He coulda used a Ruger ranch rifle. He coulda used any of a thousand different legal semiautomatic weapons that take high capacity clips.
The only gun models that would have crimped his style would be black powder arms or singleshots. He would not have gotten far with a smokepole or a Contender. So why pick on Bushmaster?
And why force anyone buying ammo to undergo a background check and buy an anual permit? Talk about a proposed law that hurts the legitimate sporting use of weapons! (Here I'm thinking of Audie Murphy as a 12 year old going out to pot rabbits to feed his family. That is as fundamentally American an image as you can think of. In the old country the king and various lordlings claimed ownership of the game, and any ordinary cuss taking meat for the table was subject to penalties ranging up to death. Not so in America, where you could hunt pretty much anywhere you pleased.)
And what about those "background checks"? Betcha the young man who killed 20 kids and more adults would have passed one. Without a doubt, 75% of persons responsible for mass shootings would have passed.
Plus, most gun nuts have stockpiled ammo, and if some go postal they have the wherewithal to do so for decades to come.
Why all this? Because public opinion is kneejerk. Mindless, emotionally led. Reminds me of 2002 and popular sentiment about invading Iraq.
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012 ... s-on-guns/
So the venture capital group that owns Bushmaster is selling that company? Well, one can understand the economics of the decision though maybe the better contrarian approach would be to hold on and wait and see, but if a Bushmaster rifle filled a consumer need a week ago it should today regardless of what happened at a school in Connecticut.
And dropping the Bushmaster (if that happens) will not reduce the likelihood of violence.
That kid didn't have to use a Bushmaster to shoot down a classroom full of tykes. He coulda used a Ruger ranch rifle. He coulda used any of a thousand different legal semiautomatic weapons that take high capacity clips.
The only gun models that would have crimped his style would be black powder arms or singleshots. He would not have gotten far with a smokepole or a Contender. So why pick on Bushmaster?
And why force anyone buying ammo to undergo a background check and buy an anual permit? Talk about a proposed law that hurts the legitimate sporting use of weapons! (Here I'm thinking of Audie Murphy as a 12 year old going out to pot rabbits to feed his family. That is as fundamentally American an image as you can think of. In the old country the king and various lordlings claimed ownership of the game, and any ordinary cuss taking meat for the table was subject to penalties ranging up to death. Not so in America, where you could hunt pretty much anywhere you pleased.)
And what about those "background checks"? Betcha the young man who killed 20 kids and more adults would have passed one. Without a doubt, 75% of persons responsible for mass shootings would have passed.
Plus, most gun nuts have stockpiled ammo, and if some go postal they have the wherewithal to do so for decades to come.
Why all this? Because public opinion is kneejerk. Mindless, emotionally led. Reminds me of 2002 and popular sentiment about invading Iraq.