Maggie's Farm

I have a very strict gun control policy. If there is a gun in the immediate area, I want to be i control of it.

Andrew Young once said, and I am paraphrasing, that: "Police are a necessary evil."

If I recall, he was talking about the Atlanta Police Bureau, not Department. This may or may not have been during the time that Julian Bond was involved in an investigation by that same Bureau for recreational use of cocaine--his wife was concerned for him and pimped him out to the APB Narcotics Squad. Can't use cocaine and not possess. Julian and Andy ran in the same political group (sometimes referred to as "the Andy Young crowd") of black elites that controlled (control) black politics in the ATL. There was political pressure to get this investigation voided; if you can believe that.

I will agree with Andy (Andy is a good man, outspoken, not shy and not always correct) that police are necessary, and sometimes evil (hey, it's an evil job).

The liberals and their gun free Utopia... If there were no guns then you would be more worried about getting your throat slit or being held up at knife point than you are now--ask any Australian about this. If there were no police, then everyone would need a gun more than they need one now.

Who do you call when you need a man with a gun? Sometimes you need to call one--it's that kind of world. Paladin turned in his Have Gun Will Travel card some time back, and your choices are limited.

It is said that there is a thin blue line that keeps society glued together, that separates the innocent from the wicked and maintains order amidst chaos. I work at night so that you can sleep at night.

All righty, then...it is New Year's Eve and my party awaits...the first drink is on me.

Sincerely,

red

Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the muck and mud. Personal weapons are objects of great power. That power must be used with equally great responsibility. If you are a law abiding (or non-law abiding) citizen that uses a gun irresponsibly, then necessarily, your right to firearms should evaporate faster than the muzzle velocity of a .220 Swift and punishment should also be as swift.

Usually, if a person is irresponsible with a firearm they are not being law abiding. Maybe this is circular reasoning as well.

The problem is bad people with guns, regardless their ethnicity. If you have ever been on the wrong end of the barrel of a gun in a dangerous situation, you would understand that the problem is the human at the trigger.

An old saw says that God created man and that Sam Colt made them equal. There is a lot of truth in that. Guns are as American as apple pie--they are how the West was won, and the East, too, for that matter.

I would like to live in Eden with Saint Patrick. But until that day I will have to put my trust in the Lord and Smith & Wesson.

When one is engaged in criminal behavior with a firearm any action is irresponsible. You may disagree. My opinion here though. Pointing a weapon at someone to discharge them of their possessions could get the pointer killed and rightly should if this was a perfect world--one action is irresponsible, the other justifiable.

However, if we are talking about the lawful use of firearms, use the following four rules as a guide:

RULE 1
ALL GUNS ARE ALWAYS LOADED

RULE 2
NEVER LET THE MUZZLE COVER ANYTHING YOU ARE NOT PREPARED TO DESTROY

RULE 3
KEEP YOUR FINGER OFF THE TRIGGER UNTIL YOUR SIGHTS ARE ON THE TARGET

RULE 4
BE SURE OF YOUR TARGET

Following these rules will usually ensure that everyone goes home after work. if you are not acquainted with these laws and use firearms I suggest you commit them to memory. It will serve you well.

I've never had a skeet shoot at me. I have seen the "the black hole in the barrel" and believe me, it will change your attitude in a hurry if you have an iota of self preservation. A .22 will grab your attention just as quickly as a .45 although it will leave a much smaller exit wound. I have heard war stories that were much more descriptive than that quote and much more entertaining, so yeah, people say those things. Maybe you hang with a nicer crowd?

Negligence is criminal although not alway prosecuted. A reasonable man would agree with this although a lawyer may not. As Flannery O'Connor almost said, a reasonable man is hard to find. A woman just got shot in the eye in South Carolina very recently at a gun range and is dead. There was also a tragic "accident" this past hunting season in South Carolina where one brother shot another when he thought brother was a deer. Someone neglected the rules, don't you think? I avoid public ranges like the plague.

"I will have to put my trust in the Lord and Smith & Wesson." I really like that one. Don't you get that this is satire and serious, rife with cliches and worn out phraseology, and I hope with enlightenment? What I should have said was that you can put your trust in the Lord, for me, I will choose Smith and Wesson. As the good shepherd said, "for thou art always with me."

"ever shot a gun? don't take that personally, just wondering." Don't bait me here, I am just an Internet troll. Guns are terrible, disgusting things and they should all be beaten into plowshares. While I am a liberal (not the sort like our bud Zach-un-real), I am a staunch Maggie's Farm Conservative. Like religion, politics, sexual preference, courtship or marriage, or toothpaste selection, I am not apt to discuss my firearms practices publicly or with others not of my ilk. Call me tribal if you will. You might say though, that I am well acquainted with the difference between an action and a safety or a muzzle and a bolt, semi-auto and auto. I am aware that ammunition comes in different calibers and each firearm demands its own; and that .223 is fine in a 5.56 but not vice versa, unless especially notated.

If you are a law-abiding citizen using firearms in a responsible (I think I covered that) manner I have no problem with your use or ownership of firearms. If you are using firearms to assert your power illegally or negligently I have a big problem with you.

"Political power grows from the barrel of a gun." So said The Chairman. "They've got the guns, but we've got the numbers" was social commentary on the politics of the day--thankfully those days are gone but we have these days. Maybe we can survive for a few more years before they pry our guns from our cold dead fingers.

"...an armed society is a polite society." Positutely.

Your milage may differ.

To answer your Q: I haven't a clue. Repartee?

I just read this headline and thought of you:

1 of Chicago's bloodiest years ends with 762 homicides

Those Chicargo gun ranges must be unsafe. Legislation is needed immediately. Maybe Blago can arrange it or our soon to be ex-presidente?

Oh, yeah, I'm thinking about you Willie B. Often.

That pain you feel in your lip? That's my hook.

I'm just a troll Willie.