Thor I agree with everything you say, you word it better than I do
I think it all comes down to two definitions. "Crazy" & "Assault Weapons" Like Thor said what’s crazy? Who’s making the final call on who is "crazy" or "mentally ill"? Like Thor said is it the individual that shoots every weekend and is well armed and a well practiced and experienced shooter therefore by nhibbards standard should be an individual that should have weapons? I shoot a decent amount but I guarantee there were some people that read my first couple posts and their first thought was "wow crazy gun guy". I disagree I think it’s crazy to not have a firearm in your house for protection. I shoot enough to be good so if that situation ever arose I would feel confident not scared. My wife and I lived on Suzie Wilson road when the Currier situation happened. We use to walk by their house in the evenings. Its a nice quiet peacefull neighborhood, and look what happened. That was the final straw for me, I already owned my pistol but I went out and bought a pistol for my wife too. She was hesitant to shoot it, it scared her. I taught her how to use it, and how to be very safe with it. She isn't scared anymore and is quite confident with it, and let me add she’s very good with it
Listen there is evil all around us, and I believe you owe it to yourself and your family to be able to protect yourself and your family. Ever heard the phrase when danger is moments away law enforcement is minutes away? I'll leave it at that.
Other definition, "assault weapon". If they are trying to ban "assault weapons" they should be able to define it right? So what is an assault weapon? As Thor already posted the normal joe can't buy a full automatic firearm so that’s out of the question. Is it the pistol grips? I know a lot of turkey shotguns that are sold with pistol grips now. is it the firearms with a heat shield around the barrel? Is it the black firearms? Thor it the nail on the head, it’s the firearms that looks scary to the people that don't agree with firearms.
As for mandating smaller magazines. I'm sure some of you read about the woman in Georgia recently that shot an intruder that came into her home looking for her or her kids. She had a 5 shot revolver, shot all 5 times, hitting him 4 times (apparently she’s a decent shot). She only had a 5 shot revolver so this doesn't necessarily pertain to her situation, but for the sake of argument let’s say she had a firearm with a 5 shot magazine b/c Obama said that’s all she could have. So she shoots all 5 times severely injuring this intruder then whoops she just realizes there are actually 2 intruders not one. Now what? I bet she would have wished she had at least one more round! No body that wins a gun fight ever says "boy wish I didn't bring so much ammo". So I ask why put these kind of restrictions on law abiding citizens when criminals aren't going to play by the same rules? Do people actually believe by putting these restrictions out there it’s going to stop criminals from using them?
I'll say just one last thing then I'll get off my soap box. This is a free country let’s keep it that way. Full government control over everything is not a good thing and our founding fathers put certain things in place to try and protect us from just that . . . our government.
Couple quotes from a very smart man:
- When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty (Thomas Jefferson)
- The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first. (Thomas Jefferson)
- My readings of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. (Thomas Jefferson)
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