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Automatic? Know your guns, people!
Date published: 5/1/2007 While I applaud letter-writer Terry Wendland's acceptance of our constitutional right to bear arms, the lack of knowledge clearly shows through, considering that automatic weapons are already banned from the general public ["Gun rights don't include automatic weapons!" April 24]. Bonnie Erbe makes the same mistake in her op-ed ["Enough gun violence! It's time to act now," April 24]. How can these writers expect people to pay any attention to their rants when they don't even know what they are talking about? There is clearly a huge difference between automatic and semiautomatic weapons, and it was the latter that was used by the deranged at Columbine and Virginia Tech. Anyone who has ever hunted will probably be aware of how shaky one can get while trying to line up a scope or sights on the target. Now consider that someone is in your home pointing a gun at you as you raise your weapon for self-defense. How shaky are you going to be? Frankly, I want a chance to shoot again and again with a semiautomatic weapon in case I miss the first time. Running is not an option. If we ban guns, not only will it be only criminals who will have guns, it will also be only the government that has guns. The Founding Fathers designed a self-governing society through the Constitution, and the Second Amendment was written in recognition that the government should indeed fear "we the people." It is so sad that this is no longer the case. Government was supposed to be our servant. Now, we are the servants of government. Stephen Despres King George
Date published: 5/1/2007
Fear is a powerful word, Uncj
(posted by
AtackDuck
, Sep. 25, 2007 2:41 pm)
Well said. Perhaps extreme respect would be a better term? Some of the Founders were a bloodthirsty lot! When your life is on the line, you might tend to extremes ;~)
here here
(posted by
suzuki4wheeler
, Sep. 25, 2007 2:41 pm)
you are right the media has been telling lies from the abrupt end of the tech shootings. He did not use an automatic it was semi+he did not buy one gun on the internet cannot be done sorry i have tried. so everyone needs to stop beleiving what they here,not everything the media says is true your parents should have taught you that.so only beleive half of what you here in your life .
I am quite aware...
(posted by
uncjohnny
, Sep. 25, 2007 2:41 pm)
that the 'right to bear arms' is a gentle reminder that 'we the people' have the power. I have said that repeatedly here on the FLS board. I don't agree that it is a 'looming' threat to our government. The knowledge that the gov't will encounter resistance if they attempt to create a nation of gov't policing, is just that "knowledge"! "Fear" is a very powerful word; it infers that the gov't acts without clear value, but rather with blind value.
They didn't like governments
(posted by
AtackDuck
, Sep. 25, 2007 2:41 pm)
"The tree of Liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson, on keeping the government subservient to the people.
Uncj, Founders' idea
(posted by
AtackDuck
, Sep. 25, 2007 2:41 pm)
"And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. " Richard Henry Lee, 1788
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