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Posted on 12/03/2007 5:09:53 AM PST by KeyLargo
Republican pols pander to People of the Gun
December 3, 2007 LAURA WASHINGTON LauraSWashington@aol.com
The gun carnage in America may soon overtake the maelstrom in Iraq. Every day, pop, pop, pop, and another victim is condemned to the nightmarish plague of handguns gone wild: Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor, 24, is shot to death in a home invasion. Amadou Cisse, 28, a Senegalese chemistry doctoral student at the University of Chicago, is gunned down near Hyde Park. On the Southwest Side, Howard Long, a 22-year-old security guard at Get M Girlz Apparel, is popped for a change of outfit.
The stakes are high. There are solutions. As Rudy Giuliani once said, if you need a license to drive a car, why can't we require a person to register a gun? The People of the Gun have our politicians bamboozled. Instead of Republicans promising a chicken in every pot, they should be calling for a handgun in every holster. Have you heard any politicians talking lately about handgun violence?
These days they are all pandering to the People of the Gun. "It's a beautiful day in paradise," chortled Fred Thompson recently as he paraded his law-and-order ministry through the aisles at the Land of the Sky Gun Show in South Carolina.
The Republican presidential field is hoisting the Second Amendment above their well-coiffed heads. Now the New Rudy and Mitt Romney are squabbling while Thompson and Mike Huckabee are packing heat. Next thing you know, they'll all form a posse and head out after the handgun control advocates.
Not to worry -- fortunately these pols couldn't hit a tin cup at 10 paces.
Speaking of tin cups, the gun lovers have plenty of poster children who stand ready to kick their can down the road. Take former Chicago Bears defensive lineman Tank Johnson. He has the answer to today's overworked and anxious individuals. "If you're stressed-out, rent a gun at the range and shoot two clips out," Tank was quoted as saying in ESPN the Magazine. "You'll be feeling pretty good." You might recall that last year his house was raided by police, who reportedly found six guns and 500 rounds of ammunition -- with two young children present.
Everybody needs a little "protection" at home, right?
There is no study that will prove that claim, writes David Hemenway in his 2004 book, Private Guns, Public Health.
"Instead, states and counties with more guns have more burglaries when someone is at home," reports Hemenway, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health.
A gun in the home is 22 times more likely to be used in an unintentional shooting than to injure or kill in self-defense, according to a 1998 study published in the Journal of Trauma, a medical journal. I'm more worried about children getting hold of guns in the home than encounters with lead paint on Thomas the Tank Engine toys. Let's get real and get our priorities straight.
Last month the U.S. Supreme Court took on a firecracker of a case: It agreed to consider whether a handgun ban in Washington, D.C., is a violation of the Second Amendment, the Holy Grail of gun lovers everywhere.
The court will hear arguments next spring and may issue an opinion in the summer, smack dab in the heat of the 2008 presidential contest.
It's probably naive to think that Republican-Roberts-dominated Supremes will rule in favor of gun control. But then I still believe in Santa Claus.
“People of the Gun”?
geeze another race-baiter-esqe cliche from the DBM.
The author must reaaaaaaly support hillary.
Hate filled leftist alert.
Note that this turd shows no interest in whether the Court will rule correctly on the merits of the case -- only an emotional "it's for the children" appeal.
BWAHAHAHAHA!
Bend over and shoot between the legs or do a forward shoulder roll turn an shoot was also a option taught......was taught as well. Speed rocks and contact drills was painful even in training at times. I figure the one I disliked the most was where we were taught how to shoot after being pushed back on our butts. On our backs, knees up, crossed legs shooting.......didn’t like that at all.......
Bottom line was some of the theories over time were forced upon the classes based on fact someone was dumb enough to get shot at a whole lot thus we relied on his or her expertise as a “professional”.
Everyone has a story, everyone has a better way, yet all need to address their skills , their own threat level, their daily tasks and environment “they” must work in or travel through. Open rural areas without good cover like mine mandate a rifle with powerful optics be available and a handgun to allow me time to get too that rifle.
When I am in urban areas I like to pack a shotgun and a Hi-Capacity .22 handgun. I have an ugly old .22 pistol called a Grendel p-30 that is a very good little riot gun. a half dozen spare magazines in a briefcase and that kneecapper stops the mob mentality, zombie bikers etc .......
http://hometown.aol.com/jtjersey/Grendel/GrendelP30.jpg
Cheap dirty looking little pistol yet it never burps or falters when I have run it thru the mill.......
If you ever find one at a gun show I recommend grabbing it !
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no gun = no life = dead
know gun = know life = alive
Don’t think so.......if ya see one snag it !
I did see a custom Browning High Power P35 once that was converted a 50 round magazine .22 that had an integral suppressor that was still INSIDE the slide assembly.
If ya held a regular 9 or 40 BHP up next to this you wouldn’t be able to pick which was which.......
Pilots were packing em vs issue. I signed one out and kept it for years until they sent a dozen armed weenies after me demanding it back.......thought the old temporary receipt from the armory had been lost !........dang !
I’d love to see a gunsmith rebuild that little toy from a ruger 22-45 or a BHP. I know of a lot of pilots and others who buy 40S&W BHP’s then have them reworked back to 9mm so they can shoot +P ammo in em ....a lot !
I was always of the school of though that a simple subsonic 9 or 45 handgun with a can on it was key for a E&E or SERE environment. Or even carry a spare radio or 3 vs any handgun at all as some VN era zoomies did....... aside first bad guy I drop will have MBR & Ammo to augment my efforts.....
Integral suppressor INSIDE the slide?! NO kidding!? Wow...that would be MOST useful! If I see a Grendel, I’ll snag it!
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