ABC’s ‘Lost’- Sharel and I are like crack addicts when it comes to this show. At times we question why we are even wasting our time watching it, and vow to not watch it again, yet every Wed. night at 8pm, we plop our rear ends on the couch, grab the remote and another night of self-loathing commences.
Ammo- They can’t make ammo fast enough to keep it in stock. Anywhere. Sure wish I worked in an ammo factory. Maybe the economy is bad because people are pulling money out of the stock market to stock up on guns and ammo.
Speaking of ammo- I just read a book called “The Bias Against Guns.” By John Lott, Jr. It is obviously a very one sided book, meant to balance out the mountains of anti-gun books out there, but it does paint quite a picture of selective reporting from the media when it comes to guns. A few fun facts…
1. Car accidents are the number 1 killer of children under ten. Where does accidental shooting fall? Well, I don’t have the exact number, but kids under ten drowning in 5 gallon buckets was far greater than kids accidently getting shot with a gun. Methinks we need some 5 gallon bucket control.
2. The statistic that accounts for “children” being killed with a gun classifies “children” as anyone under 21 years old. 90% of the gun deaths found in this statistic are 16-20 year old gang members being murdered with guns.
3. A news story about a gunman who opened fire at the Appalachian Law School was very skewed. Seems a gunman opened fire on campus and 3 students, according to media reports “tackled him, and disarmed him.” What 99% of the media did not report is 2 of the students ran to their cars, retrieved firearms and confronted the gunman. They pointed their weapons at him, told him to drop his weapon and then 2 others ran up behind the gunman and tackled him. When a reporter was asked about the missing pieces, he replied that he did not want to even give the idea that a gun could be used for good to the public.
There are quite a few other facts in there. If anyone has an indoctrinated aversion to guns, guns in the home, etc, I would recommend this book. I didn’t happen to agree with some of what he said, but he backs up all of his arguments with cold hard facts, something that the media seems loathe to do. Why, for those of you who know how to decipher statistics, he has raw data in there for you to pore over and crunch your own numbers. Let me clarify, the one thing I did not agree with was his argument against keeping a gun locked up in the home. While I agree it should not be a mandatory thing to keep your gun locked up, and he makes some compelling arguments against keeping a gun locked up- backed up with cold, hard, facts, -personally I will keep my guns locked up, although quickly accessible. Just really more of a personal preference, but it is hard to argue against the facts he presents.
60 years ago, a ten year old could walk down to the hardware store with $25 and buy a WWII surplus 1911 and a box of ammo. If there wasn’t a hardware store nearby, $15 and a Sears Catalog and he could have a rifle shipped right to his door. Schools in NYC had shooting ranges in their basements, as every high school had a rifle team. Kids carried guns into school every day without a problem. Certainly things have changes, kids seem to be more detached from society, and less responsible, but the culture with the media’s help have equated guns in most of our minds with small pox or the plague. Something to be scared of and avoided at all costs. It really has become an irrational fear in our society.
Music Guy knows my stance on guns, and he says he can respect that, as his dad and intellectually inferior brothers are all gun owners. But, he has fallen into a common trap that the powers to be have set. He fully believes he is an advocate for gun rights, except he thinks that evil, black, assault rifles are well, evil and should be banned. Of course, he is the same type of guy that thinks no one should be able to buy SUV’s. See, this is just the type of thing that infuriates me. Liberty, as far as I can tell, enables us to make choices. Restricting and banning really does take away our liberties. Most of the 2nd amendment people are trying to preserve some individual rights, its more symbolic of our rights as people rather than it being about guns.
The socialist, or ‘progressives’ try to convince people that they are still retaining freedom of choice, but in reality are taking it away. What they give you is this-“You can choose this chocolate candy, or you can choose this sugar-sweetened cocoa confection.” Wow, I have can choose chocolate, or…chocolate. Progressive liberals seem to be very good at this. Many good, intelligent people often fall for this. We see it with trucks, guns, food, etc. The prevailing argument seems to be “Insert noun here is not really necessary. People don’t really NEED insert noun here.” When did the American Dream become attaining only what we need? It is just more collective, populist thinking of the good of the many outweigh the good of the few. Spock really was a communist, wasn’t he.
Peace- I’m out.
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