I thought Dickey Normus was commenting on Obama and his histrionics, more than making any derogatory comment about Gabby Giffords. I suppose you also believe that Obama's use of school children in order to milk the tragedy of Newtown was also legitimate? Do you honestly believe that kids 5 and 6 years old wrote those letters he read? Can you state emphatically that those children even understand the concepts of gun bans and gun control? To deny that Obama, the anti-gun crowd and the main stream media have not used the victims of gun violence to parlay their agenda into a massive debate over the Second Amendment rights of legal gun ownership, is a denial of the obvious. To call those of us who question those tactics "gun nuts" is akin to going along with the wrong headed attitudes of the gun grabbers and their leaders. When we take into account the fact that a large majority of hunters in this country are avid gun owners and collectors, as well as choosing to pursue our love of hunting with a firearm; this is the most perfect venue for discussions about the current debate and all of the false information and media focus on unfortunate individuals such as Gabby Giffords. To extoll the propaganda of the antis while denigrating the truth of the pro gunners is to promote the denial of one of our most basic beliefs as hunters.
The true villains in this discussion are Obama and the anti-gun organizations who, with the backing of the media are escalating the debate through the outright sickening self promotion and use of unfortunate victims to pander to their sycophants.
I'm gonna paint with a pretty wide brush so cut me some slack on the specifics and try to see the big picture.
Can we agree that in the gun rights debate that's going on in this country has a lot of folks with different views.
1. Far left- These folks generally want to see all firearms removed from civilian hands.
2. Far right- These people generally believe that everyone should have any weapon that their heart desires.
3.left of center- It seems that the bulk of this group want those scary black guns gone,or some mag capacity restrictions. Most of this bunch don't seem to worried about traditional sporting arms,you know the ones like Grandpa had. For the most part they think that you should be able to defend your family in your home but they seem confused about whether you have that right out in public.
4.Right of center- This part of the public, which I suspect is the largest thinks that they have a Right to own and bear arms. They don't have any problem with what they see as reasonable restraints on these rights,most in this group don't feel restrained by the Government because they can't have a surface to air missile in the back yard.
Groups 1 and 2 are irrelevant to our discussion our history has proven them wrong.
Group 1 lets call them the Feinsteins will never disarm this country.
Group 2 well there's a list as thick as a Chinese phone book of all the Arms that a citizen can't own.
So that leaves the two groups in the middle.
In these two we have some folks who would like the Gov to tighten up the gun laws. They don't like the idea of confiscation, they want to be able to defend themselves BUT they just know somethings wrong with the way things are going.They don't want Uncle Bob to have to give up his duck gun but they are tired of seeing shootings on the news.
This group is our target, or at least it should be.
However It seems to me that those of us who profess to want to defend the 2nd have done everything in our power to alienate and offend these people.
We have scoffed at their every idea because they couldn't tell the difference between a clip and a magazine or semi and fully auto. They don't know what we know therefore they must be dismissed immediately.
Meantime the left has been more then happy to welcome these folks with open arms,Hell yes they have rounded up every sympathetic face that they could to spread the word of their cause. What have we done, trot out that mush mouth La Piare and our crazy uncle Ted. Really this is the best we can do to spread our message.
So those of us on the right of this issue get cheerleaders that will preach to the choir, meanwhile the left send forth sympathetic faces( Brady,Giffords,the Connecticut parents)to try to gain any ground they can. Their SOP has been to devoure the 2nd with a million little nibbles. We don't allow anyone into the tent that wont bite off the whole damn thing.
Before you just dismiss my thoughts look at national polls.
More homes with guns than without yet poll after poll shows that the majority support some sort of restrictions, from closing loopholes,to mag limitations. This tells me that there is a bunch of gun owners out there that are confused,scared and just grasping for anything that will fix a National disgrace.
If we continue to allow the Far right to speak for us we will some day see the 2nd die from those million little bites. Its time for the adults in the room to stand up and take charge,the time has come for the crazy uncles to go sit in the corner and wipe the drool from their chin.
Flame Away.
