| The latest ploy by the virulent anti-gun forces is | | | | high-capacity handguns and RPGs, while they are |
| to use the current fear of terrorism to push their | | | | limited to an assortment of bolt action hunting |
| agenda. They say that the terrorists are buying | | | | rifles, .22 plinkers, rusty revolvers and antiquated |
| scads of firearms, especially assault rifles, through | | | | shotguns? That's all the anti-gun forces think we |
| the gaping "loopholes" at the hated GUN SHOWS! | | | | should have. The enemy has no such restrictions. |
| As usual, they are lying through their teeth. | | | | Suppose you are in a supermarket or department |
| Terrorists, like other kinds of criminals buy their | | | | store and a bunch of armed homicide bombers |
| weapons from scumbags just like themselves. | | | | comes charging in. You are faced with two |
| In the first place, the weapons the gun-grabbers | | | | choices; meekly submit and have a one hundred |
| love to hate are NOT assault weapons. They are | | | | percent chance of being blown to smithereens or |
| all semi-automatic with operating mechanisms not | | | | pull out your gun, fight back and have a chance to |
| much different from hunting or target rifles. | | | | survive? Take your pick. I know mine. |
| "Assault weapons" are fully automatic, are | | | | Whenever the subject of easing the restrictions |
| exceedingly difficult to purchase or sell and have | | | | on Americans owning and carrying guns is raised |
| heavy government restrictions. Secondly, the | | | | the gungrabbers always paint a grim picture of |
| gunshow "loophole" doesn't exist. All licensed | | | | western movie style slaughter in the streets. In |
| dealers at such shows are required to obey all | | | | fact the actual record shows quite a different |
| laws regarding the sale of firearms, including | | | | picture. In states where "Must Issue" laws have |
| background checks. The folks that buy or sell | | | | been passed to allow any law abiding citizen to |
| guns to each other as individuals do not fall under | | | | carry a gun, the rate of violent crime has gone |
| those regulations any more than they would if | | | | down. The number of confrontations involving |
| they were trading in their own home. Another | | | | legal gun toters is nearly nonexistent. As usual, |
| gungrabber boogieman slain. | | | | where bullets are flying through the air, they |
| The "Brady Bunch," one of the most virulent of | | | | come from the guns of the gangs and drug |
| the gun grabber outfits has decided that Florida's | | | | dealers who continue to shoot each other up with |
| new "Castle" doctrine will take us to the brink of | | | | illegally acquired firearms. |
| civil war, so they are flooding the state's major | | | | The Brady Bunch likes to use the specter of the |
| airports with fliers denouncing the law and they | | | | "High Noon" or "O.K. Corral" shootouts as a grim |
| are placing ads in the newspapers of cities that | | | | reminder of the horrific results of an armed |
| provide a lot of Florida's tourists warning them of | | | | populace. In fact, that's all Hollywood fiction. The |
| the supposed danger. These are the same people | | | | "Old West" was actually a pretty peaceful place, in |
| who warn that every new law that makes it | | | | part because there were so many armed people |
| easier for law-abiding folks to have firearms will | | | | around that the occasional miscreant would think |
| result in streets flowing with blood and | | | | twice about committing a crime, lest the |
| law-enforcement officers slaughtered in their | | | | mild-mannered storekeeper haul out his Colt .45 |
| thousands They haven't been right yet but they | | | | and "ventilate the varmint!" |
| just hope for one tiny hiccup in the crime | | | | Another straw man dragged out by the gun |
| statistics because they know the media will turn it | | | | haters is the fear of the "vigilantes," sometimes |
| into a full scale massacre. | | | | grandly referred to as "Committees of Vigilance." |
| The anti-gun weenies also want to convince | | | | (Even President Bush has bought into this baloney |
| American citizens that government, not the | | | | when referring to "The Minuteman Project." down |
| people, are primarily responsible for protecting the | | | | on the Mexican border) Always portrayed as evil |
| individual. Well folks, it may come as a shock but | | | | men acting at the behest of some wealthy land |
| the United States Supreme Court has plainly | | | | baron, keeping the locals thoroughly cowed while |
| stated that the individual has no right to expect | | | | they awaited the appearance of the handsome, |
| protection from the government police forces. | | | | clean cut, good hearted U.S. Marshal. The reason |
| The only people who are going to protect us is; | | | | they can get away with that nonsense is that's |
| US! | | | | how the vigilantes were portrayed in decades of |
| It's time for the Bush administration to knock off | | | | Hollywood western movies and TV shows to the |
| the kinder and gentler rhetoric they seem to love | | | | point that the viewers believed, and still believe, |
| so much and rescind all of the previous | | | | that the films were a reflection of real life. |
| administration's anti-gun Executive Orders and | | | | Were the vigilantes all honest, public minded |
| Directives and to get their minions in Congress to | | | | citizens trying to bring a semblance of law to their |
| work on legislation to permanently repeal the | | | | frontier towns? Considering human nature, |
| dreaded BATF 922 regulations on the importation | | | | probably not, but neither were they all nefarious |
| of firearms as well as the myriad of other laws | | | | evil-doers. In most cases they were just regular |
| that have effectively disarmed a large part of the | | | | folks who wanted to bring a semblance of law to |
| American populace. | | | | their town and knew that the government |
| If there are to be terrorist attacks on American | | | | wouldn't and couldn't provide it. |
| soil in the future, (and I'm certain there will be) the | | | | That's what we need to do. Realize that the |
| people should be allowed to be at least as well | | | | government can't and won't provide individual |
| armed as the terrorists. That means | | | | protection and that either as groups or as |
| semi-automatic long arms, usually (and incorrectly, | | | | individuals we must provide the means and the |
| see above) referred to by the Left biased media | | | | mettle to take care of ourselves, our loved ones |
| as "assault weapons" and modern semi-auto | | | | and our property. That's what being an American |
| handguns. Can't you just see a bunch of American | | | | used to be about. That's what it should be from |
| civilians going up against a gang of al-Qaida | | | | this day forward. |
| terrorists who are armed with AK-47s, AK-74s, | | | | © 2005 Charles Stone, Jr. |