Phew.
Where to begin? Law abiding citizens will abide by the law regardless of how many firearms they own. I happen to be a blacksmith. I own over 50 different kinds of hammers. What is to stop me from bringing a 2 pound cross-pein hammer to the shopping mall and smashing in a dozen or so skulls at the food court before I am subdued?
This: I am a moral and law abiding citizen.
How many folks could you stab in the kidney with a number 2 pencil before Kmart security wrestled you to the ground? Quite a few I would suppose. Let’s ban pencils!
A gun is a tool, just like a pencil or a hammer. Good people know when to use a tool, and when not to.
Swimming pools kill a substantially larger number of children every year than do guns. Should we legislate the Swimming Pool Ban?
Intellects like Vivo and As If don’t comprehend, nor will they likely ever, the concept of personal responsibility. I don’t even need to get to the 2nd Amendment to find personal defense in the sacred scrolls — how about this: “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”
Let’s look at the first word of that brilliant statement. “Life.”
What this means to me is that when I am working in my shop in the bad part of town at 9:30 pm, and three Eminem wanabees come in and start asking me if I work all alone all the time, and why I have so much copper lying around, and look hungrily at all of the expensive equipment in the shop, I take a measure of comfort at the fact that I have nestled under my shirt the greatest creation of Mr. John Moses Browning. The 1911. And when I told them that I was very busy and could they come back later, while bending over to pick up a piece of steel and inadvertently exposing the butt of said 1911, I am confident that a crime may have been prevented.
So, with all due respect Messrs Vivo and As If, kindly go make the beast with two backs and take your Kumbaya and shove up your collective itchy eyes.
Too harsh? UnChristian of me? Tragic. I have lost patience with you and your ilk. It is long overdue for your lot to form your own country and cease wasting my time and sucking my air.
AMF,
Gordon
