Montgomery Officials Not Happy with New Gun Legislation

wncftv.com ^ | April 5, 2013 | Ashley Thompson

[Pollster1]

The new legislation, drafted by Senator Scott Beason of Gardendale, would make gettting and carrying a gun easier.

I'd consider that a good thing. Any law that makes it easier to get and carry a gun is positive. The other half of that equation should be laws that make it easier to lock up dangerous predators who carry or use guns when committing crimes - lock them up for a very long time. I'm okay with a mandatory extra 20 years for using a firearm during armed robbery, rape, or similar crimes. How do the "anti-gun" liberals feel about penalties for the misuse of firearms, as a substitute for restrictions on the rights of ordinary people?

[Peet]

Emotions are high and then somebody steps on your toe, and you're ready to go and get your gun," he says.

Sorry Willie but that's not the reaction of a normal person.

How does my correspondent "know" that his neighbors would murder him if they had guns? He doesn’t. What he was really saying was that if he had a gun, he might murder his neighbors if he had a bad day, or if they took his parking space, or played their stereos too loud. This is an example of what mental health professionals call projection – unconsciously projecting one’s own unacceptable feelings onto other people, so that one doesn’t have to own them.

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