If we condone gun ownership...Well, that certainly tells me everything I need to know.
That and her expertise in guns and their defensive uses: she has none. But she does grow papayas.
Isn't it criminal negligence and fraud when you feign expertise in something with the intent of getting people to follow your advice? Particularly when it involves life-and-death decisions?
Why do we condone it?
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Condone, condemn. Once someone has been a victim or near-victim, if they're smart, they WILL arm themselves. That would be regardless of society's uninformed opinion or any law. That's how criminals do it. Make us criminals, we'll accept the role. We, the intelligent, self-sufficient, motivated and hard-working who pay the taxes used to deny us our liberties. You SURE you want to go there?
"Whether it’s loaded or unloaded, your 10-year-old son or, yes, daughter — and don’t ask me how I know this — will be pulling out daddy’s handgun to see if it looks like 007’s. Leaving it loaded, even with the safety lock on, is child endangerment. It should be legally prosecutable by penalties commensurate with, say, holding your kids over a cliff."
I'll be surprised if my 8yr old son asks that. He knows what all of my guns look like. He's handled all of them; helped clean them; and shot some of them. He also knows the 4 rules. Of course, unlike Harriet, my 4 yr old daughter knows the rules too and has handled all the guns in my house too.
Now, lets talk about the safety of my brother's backyard swimming pool...
. . . it is a gross and shameful misuse of a gun to fire it in anger.
So smile when you shoot that would-be rapist.
condemn gun ownership? does she think that this is a new idea?
Oh man ... so many red herrings ... I think I need a fishing trawler!
I love her bit about the skill of a shooter. What complete tripe. Most violent defense encounters happen within 20 ft. If you can't shoot center of mass at 20 ft you're either walleyed or have Parkinson's.
And I love her thing about child endangerment. I was brought up target shooting with my dad. I know the rules of the range and I also know how to shoot he handgun I now possess.
Morons...
Sweetie, you can call me "Death in my Pocket" Dad. I think it's got a nice ring.
I couldn't read it. But then since my first few bad marriages, I seldom waste time on lying bitches.
I sent her this email:
I believe-and don't ask me how I know this- that you know absolutely nothing you wrote about in your Guns & Children. Ask me about firearms in my house and I say it's none of your business. If you don't like my answer, don't visit. Although at your question, I've already pulled in the welcome mat. Let me ask you a question about "our children" and what we want for Florida or any state. First, on a personal level, how safe for children is a home with firearms compared to a mother's womb? One child in four gunned down by the mother would be about equivalent. On a larger scale, the laws vary from state to state as to how a firearm permit holder can discharge his weapon. Here in MN we do not have a Castle Doctrine, and I must retreat, may use my firearm only in fear of great bodily harm or death, and can fire to save another only, as my instructor put it, "For those persons to whom you would donate an organ." On a personal level, if I walk into a bank and see a knife to your throat, I will be fleeing the scene and dialing 911, not testing my not very rusty shooting skills. (By the way, do you have any idea the range at which most shootings, of all kinds, police, criminal, citizen, occur? Under 20 feet. A criminal with a knife can close 33 feet in about 2 seconds. A really skilled person can draw from holster in concealment in 2-3 seconds.) And lastly, on a vulgar level, this, "We’ve registered cars and required skills training for those licenses since forever without banning motor vehicles." If you want to make this argument, then everytime someone without a license to drive kills someone in an accident, punitive laws affecting all those people who did not kill someone in an accident, or shoot someone with their legal firearm, should be enacted. Like limits on the number of cylinders in engines. Waiting periods for car purchases of at least six weeks to three months. No more private sales of cars from individual to individual. We've go to close the car show loophole. The restriction of auto usage to professional drivers, after all, cars are designed only to kill when crashing into children. Cars must be kept in steel garages with miltiple locks, batteries disconnected, spark plugs taken out and tires deflated. These are just "common sense car laws" after all, no? Aren't 50000 automobile deaths a year enough.
One more thing...it was a Guest Commentary. Shouldn't that have been Guessed?
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