The Second Amendment ain’t about duck hunting.
In a sense, I agree with this lib from the NYTimes - I'm not a hunter but I put the right to bear arms only after the right to life in my voting priorities.
Another village idiot gone astray!
Claptrap from some “I’m better than you are” idiot clearly out of touch with both constitutional issues relative to the Second Amendment and the most basic and simple nature of American politics.
Hence, a classic Useful Idiot for the Left.
Come back when you’ve got a clue, you silly woman.
Country Club gun owner, Gun Culture 1.0 type.
I’m on the opposite side in opposing the NRA.
I pulled my NRA membership when the NRA putzes endorsed every single commie Dem incumbent NM congressman in the 2010 elections.
The NRA enjoys playing both sides of the fence.
No mas.
“I’m a hunter and a sportswoman. I own guns, but not for self-defense. I support gun control laws.”
We have members at my Sporting/Shooting Club that think like this. Usually spout some claptrap about, “Who needs a pistol for self-defense?” and “Those damned yahoos with Assault weapons will get all our rights taken away one day”
We like to call them “Golfers with Guns” or “Jim Zumbo Zombies”.
Anyone care to bet that the government will not use the NRA subscription list to find out who the gun owners are?
I don’t much care for the Nevada Racquetball Alliance myself...
What kind of weapon would Lily use on an armed intruder in her home?
Funny. I am just the opposite. I support NRA (and am a member). I support gun rights, but I don’t hunt.
Why not? I don’t feel like going out in the woods when it is crowded with other hunters. I sympathize with the animals. Call me foolishly tender-hearted!
I am not against hunting: it needs to be done. We have too darn many deer. I will eat some venison if offered, and I have been known even to salvage road kill (if it is fresh enough). It’s just that I am not sure that I would enjoy pulling the trigger with a deer in my sights. Let someone else do that.
Beware of women with three names.
Lily Raff McCaulouOkay Lily. Just remember that *if* some 6'-2", 250 lb rapist decides he'd like to meet you in a dark alley some night. As your being RAPED keep telling yourself:
I’m a hunter and a sportswoman. I own guns, but not for self-defense. I support gun control laws. I would happily vote to repeal the Stand Your Ground law in my home state of Oregon.
"I don't believe in guns for self-defense, repeal the Stand Your Ground law. I don't believe in guns for self-defense, repeal the Stand Your Ground law. I don't believe in guns for self-defense, repeal the Stand Your Ground law...."
And if you're lucky and the RAPIST doesn't KILL YOU too. You can repeat that bullshit to the police at the hospital while the nurse is doing a Rape Kit on you. Oh, and repeat it six months later when you find out you now have AIDS.
Happy 'Hunting' Lily.
Not for self-defense. Does that mean you would use something less effective to defend yourself? Perhaps a kitchen knife? Or calling 911 and curling into a whimpering ball? If you had a crazed home invader about to do harm to a family member would you renounce that shotgun immediately at hand in favor of dialog?
I hunt and the NRA is too soft for me. I support the Second Amendment Foundation.
Of all the shooters at the club, the worst of the worst when it comes to attitude seem to be the shotgun shooters. These guys will spend $6,000 on a fancy trap or skeet shotgun and not skip a heartbeat, but they question why anyone wants one of those EBRs or some kind of military-looking firearm. These guys should know better, but they have blinders on when it comes to firearms that are outside their small group of favorites.
Whenever I hear one of these self-appointed “experts” mouthing off, I remind them that the gun grabbers mean to take ALL of their precious guns and they make no distinction of whose they want. They want ALL of them.
Good. All you need to do is distribute fliers proclaiming you will not defend yourself. Have your address on the fliers. Include a picture of yourself. Distribute these fliers in areas of New York City that might be on Trayvon Martin's side.
Otherwise, STFU.
This article is another big pantsload of New York Times.
From the this NYTimes articles:
"I decided to take up hunting about six years ago, two years after I moved from New York City to rural Oregon..."From the description on Amazon of her book:
"When Lily Raff McCaulou traded in an indie film production career in New York for a reporting job in central Oregon, she never imagined that she'd find herself picking up a gun and learning to hunt. She'd been raised as a gun-fearing environmentalist..."From her own website:
"I grew up in Takoma Park, Maryland, which is a cool, hippie suburb of Washington, D.C. I graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in film studies and worked in New York City’s independent film industry before becoming a newspaper reporter in 2004."Cool hippie, gun-fearing environmentalist, ivy leaguer, indie film producer, reporter and recently turned "hunter" is the NYTimes spokeperson for hunters on guns!
One Question: When she picked up her hunting license did she ask, "Can I get me a hunting license here?"
Lily Raff McCaulou
@LilyMcCaulou
Journalist interested in hunting, food and the environment. Author of the forthcoming CALL OF THE MILD (June 2012).
Bend, OR · http://www.lilyrm.
http://twitter.com/#!/lilymccaulou