"Gun control means being able to hit your target."
This evening, we received a telephone call from the NRA. I doubt the young lady on the line ordinarily expects to hear her affiliation met with racous laughter. However, that's what she got.
Then I explained to her my theory on gun control.
My grandfather was a hunter. He always had rifles and shotguns. Guns were used to hunt for food for the family table. If you shot it, you cleaned it and you ate it.
Grandfather did not have any handguns. He did not like pistols. He said, "A pistol is only good for shooting a person."
And that's my feeling on gun control. Use guns to hunt for food.
One of the problems with this society is that we frown more on eating a dead person than on shooting him in the first place.
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I like that definition! I've gotten those phone calls also. The NRA seems to have been so powerful for so long, that they are genuinely surprised when they make a blind call and get someone who doesn't think we should all be armed to the teeth.
ReplyDeleteI'm getting the idea that almost everyone around us IS armed to the teeth. Uncomfortable feeling.
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