Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Is Major League Baseball's Gun Ban a 'No-Brainer'?

Still, why would you want to trust anyone deemed incapable of civilized conduct around tools with unchecked access to clubs they could brain somebody with? [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner column asks how smart and sporting mandated defenselessness is.

Also get an update on last night's legislative betrayal in Oregon.

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2 comments:

Ed said...

So, since people are charged with assault and battery with a deadly weapon, to wit a baseball bat or a golf club, then that includes those sporting goods on the list of prohibited equipment for players in Major League Baseball?
Besides, what are you going to do with pitchers like Pedro Martinez, who are notorious for their strategic use of pitches intentionally thrown outside the strike zone, otherwise known as inside pitches, brushback pitches or beanballs?
Ask former players like Boston's Tony Conigliaro what they think of this. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit_by_pitch.
Last month a non-uniformed Washington DC police officer was videotaped responding gun in hand to snowballs thrown at his personal vehicle but was not disciplined for his behavior as it was deemed appropriate by his superiors. Does that mean that baseball players are not allowed to throw snowballs?
After all, someone MIGHT get hurt.

straightarrow said...

In an effort to appear as racist as possible I would mention that the dumb sonofabitch took a gun to a snowball fight. I would further mention that he only pointed his gun at people of a color that did not match his.

Oh, did I give it away when I said "dumb sonofabitch"? Don't pay any attention to that. There are all colors of dumb sonsofbitches.