Hunters need to separate themselves from gun nuts

Chicago Sun Times ^ | 2-17-03 | DALE BOWMAN

[Dec31,1999]

There is no reason on earth why we should share that bill. I'm for states' rights!

[Travis McGee]

Thanks! I have cleaned up a few typos and awkward constructions on my own MS Word files, the book will be a bit "cleaner" than the website. When I get a chance, I need to go back into the website and plug in the corrected versions.

[Aarchaeus]

About half-way through, I figured out what this is. The writer is not a hunter, and most likely owns no guns. This was was written by an America-hating left-wing, anti-rights SOB who imagines himself to be good at producing propaganda.

[ohmage]

Will wonders nver cease? A Bill to protect the Right to bear arms.

http://etherzone.com/2003/metc021703.shtml

I looked for the small print. Couldn't find any yet.

[Noumenon]

Thre trouble with guys like the author of this article is that he's a fence-sitter.

The trouble with fence sitters is that they're moral cowards.

The trouble with moral cowards is that they will catch fire from both sides.

An unenviable position, to say the least.

[Noumenon]

A local environmentalist once stood up and called me a "fascist libertarian gun nut".

Say, you can party with me any time...

[demosthenes the elder]

this fellow evidently does not think that the progrssive expansion of gun restrictions in America will follow the same course and reach the same ultimate end that they did in England and Australia. What did PT Barnum used to say? Oh, yes: There's a sucker born every minute.

[Richard Kimball]

False Premise: The purpose of the Second Amendment is to protect the right to use a gun to hunt.

Real purpose: To separate the hunters from the collectors and the sport shooters. If all firearm owners stick together, the left will not be able to get the laws through congress. OTOH, if a wolf in sheep's clothing says "Oooh, we're hunters, we're not like those crazy gun people" they might be able to split off enough of the firearm owners to let some "much needed sense be brought to the firearms industry." To them, much needed sense means first registration, then confiscation.

The left DOES NOT WANT VIOLENCE IN THIS COUNTRY TO DECREASE! They want people scared enough to run to big brother and say, "please big brother, make me safe!", and they will make us safe, just like they have in England and Australia.

[demosthenes the elder]

prevalence of potent shoulder and side-arms in a tight knit, large, and interactive subculture in America directly equals an unacceptable risk of unstoppable reprisals for such a smart-bombing or other fascist abuse of power. That is why the politicos don't pull this kind of stunt (often) and is the inarguable reason why the 2nd Am exists in the first place.

[Noumenon]

Consider the fact that no politician can maintain a 300 yard perimeter forever. And that won't mean a thing to those who practice a bit. Most of them know that, and it's a powerful restraint on the impulse to tyranny. If enough of them forget that or ignore it, well...

And really, what should give them pause is the fact that there are enough very, very fed up people with both the training and the motivation to carry the battle back to the real enemy. Not the confiscators, but the ones who sent them. We're not talking about an 'organized militia' - we're talking about the worst possible scenario - at least from a criminal politican's point of view - the independent actor. Lots of them.

As John Ross wrote in "Unintended Consequences," Stripping a motivated people of their dignity and rubbing their faces in it is a very bad idea. Short of a miracle, I expect we're going to find out just how bad an idea that is here in America.

[demosthenes the elder]

taxation without representation...
reparations for slavery...
Hillary!...
the Mexican Hordes...
an overreaching Homeland Security gone Nazi...

these are off-the-cuff.
there are many more.
take your pick.

[demosthenes the elder]

good GOD, dude, that is brilliant!
with your permission, I intend to circulate it to the ends of the earth - or, at least, the depths of my e-mail list.

[col kurz]

Gentle hunters, With O.J., the Ramseys, the wife killer in Calif., plus thousands of Al-Quida sympathisers running loose in this country, you guys get off taking out bunnies, Bambis' sheep and birds...And you call us nuts???

[demosthenes the elder]

dude. good thread. thanks for the heads-up.

[Squantos]

My favorite "gun nuts" were named Browning, Colt, Smith, Wesson, Garand, Remington, Maxim, Williams, Mauser, Stoner, Winchester , Ruger, Beretta, Hawken, Lemat ect ect........

Stay Safe !

[Eastbound]

Ditto!

[Squantos]

Scared ?!?!? ....Vapors ?!?!?!?!?..... Hell it scares me and I have more ass than the boogieman has teeth and that book gives me the willies !!!

Stay Safe & Keep typing Travis !

[Glenn]

Not even at the range? Jesus, you might be more of a danger to yourself than to your assailant!

It's not my first. I'm fully qualified to use it.

[SWake]

The Webb Wilder version of the last verse of the song is something like:

Well, I got into a card game in a company town
I caught a man cheatin' - I shot the dog down
Shot the dog down, watched the man fall
He never touched his holster, never had a chance to draw.

The trial was in the morning and they drug me out of bed
They asked me how I pleaded. "Not guilty," I said
"Not guilty," I said, "You got the wrong man,
No one touched the trigger but the Devil's Right Hand."

Ironic that he would choose to quote a song that blames the gun for the crime, isn't it?

[RamingtonStall]

Ref your: <<"Will wonders nver cease? A Bill to protect the Right to bear arms.

http://etherzone.com/2003/metc021703.shtml

I looked for the small print. Couldn't find any yet. ">>

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Thanks for the lead to the excellent article. Perhaps you should post it as a self standing Thread on http://www.freerepublic.com ?

The main article as well as the additional articles listed at the bottom are Excellent!

Joy! ([: ^ )

RamS