"Junior likes to shoot pellet guns at targets, so it's no big deal. Like being a field-goal kicker on the football team, I suppose. Hit a bulls-eye, score some points."
Flapjack, good for you.
I was in a toy store last Christmas, and a lady was in there shopping with her son, and he picked up one of the toy rifles (the kind that shoots a cork) and she went ballistic ("Don't you EVER touch one of those!").
Boys (and men) like to shoot guns, bows, paintballs, you name it. Shooting a gun at a target is no different than shooting a basketball at a hoop. Nothing will ever change that.
The democratic party has, unfortunately, been portrayed as being against the very EXISTENCE of guns. While I don't own any myself (I mooch off my friends), I will take a round of sporting clays (or just plain trap shooting) over a round of golf any day. I have fired every type of firearm I can think of, and it hasn't turned me into a mad-dog killer (except for the .50 caliber semi-automatic, has anyone seen those? It weights five pounds and is a piece of junk and costs $1,000).
That being said, there is still tremendous ignorance about firearms out there. On the radio the other day I heard a DJ bragging about how he had hit 2 out of 10 clays with a rifle. Even if he had done it (no way), it is still a woeful display of ignorance to fire a rifle at clays.
The NRA, for the most part, does a good service in education re gun safety. They have also been correct, in my opinion, on a number of issues (guns should be a state, not a federal, issue).
The problem is when the NRA starts frothing at the mouth regarding issues such as gun shows. |
