I really don't understand Gun Control, According to and as explained by Democrat Liberals. And I suppose I do not intend to. I have been listening to Gum flapping propaganda since before age 10, when I realized gun control made no sense at all. I was born and raised in an Anti Gun family, in the Borg collective of University bred academia, they were often invited supper guests and occupied guest rooms whilst visiting lecturers. So I was a captive audience to many a rehearsal, ala young Jim Hawkins of Treasure island, listening to chilling pirate deeds of the resident pirate. I always listened and never spoke my mind as in those days, it would have been foolish to reveal my ideas about anything, so I kept shut about most everything. I harboured Gun Control ideas I found acceptable at the time, at age 10, I felt that: 1. Guns definitely had a place in society, even machine guns, if you needed to defend against a huge invading army. 2. Guns should be locked up when not in use. 3. Since often a Gun was not checked well, I figured a Gun could indeed be loaded, and care needed to be exercised handling any gun at any time. 4. Guns were not toys, I even handled toy guns with some care, I really disliked pointing toy guns at any one since the apl guns are loaded always flashed in my mind. 5. Ask an adult for permission before touching a gun. My gun philosophy was self taught as my parents never instructed me about gun safety, I learned that from a stackpole book, Gun Control by Kookla, oddly enough, it was in the family library ! I could never fathom how gun control could affect criminals if criminals did not obey those laws, since the days of pretty Patty Hearst, where did they get their guns ? I vowed to own guns as soon as I was old enough to buy them. My political affiliation was chosen for me and I was registered as Democrat as soon as I came of age and have never changed it. In reality, I am an independent politically speaking, I have always been of my own mind on everything from a very early age, I never blindly followed opinions on anything, rather than study those issues and conduct my own research. Sadly, I did not grow up in a progun home, however, perhaps that struggle added some dimension and texture to my decision-making processes on many other topics helping to make me non judgmental of alternative ideals.
Preemptive statement, I am not seeking an Explanation of Gun control, I understand the theories well enough, it is the Liberal ideology that I have no wish to understand. Teachings and political theory that contradict logic and lifes experience and solid facts as those that have lived a long and full life can well attest to. So called studies that pretend to know more are simply political propaganda disguised as peer reviewed research with a thinly disguised agenda and by somke and mirrors a complex web of deception.
I don’t understand gun control either. My wife hasn’t a clue what I own. We went to an indoor range tonight with another couple. I took two .357 revolvers, and two .45’s. One of the .45’s was a H&K USP .45. She didn’t know I owned it but she was making it rain in the range. I guess I lost control of my USP and it is now hers. Good thing she doesn’t like my 1911.
Someone, likely your parents didn't inform you that there was a list of who was good and who wasn't nice and you ended up on the not being nice list and on Christmas morning when you were ten years old this wasn't under the Christmas tree. Ah, memories. As immortalized in A Christmas Story, the Red Ryder BB Gun was a rite of passage for young boys way back when to at least the 1970s. Daisy still makes ’em. You can, in fact, buy the gun about which Ralphie’s mom said “you’ll shoot your eye out,” for a reasonable (by today’s standards) $64.99. By today’s standards, the Red Ryder is mostly a nostalgia piece – air rifles have come a long, long way from the more innocent days of playing Cowboys and Indians. Today’s air rifles are used in competitive shooting sports, and can be a great way to set up a legal shootin’ range in your backyard or basement, without fear of noise or taking out something a couple of miles away. But I gotta say, Ralphie’s mom was right in one respect – even a Red Rydercan put somebody’s eye out if some idiot aims it at someone’s eye. The Red Ryder is a gun – not a toy, despite the way they’ve been marketed since time began. That being said, it’s a sign of our times that getting a Daisy is no longer looked upon as the rite of passage it once was, but more as a sign of the cultural divide between states red and blue. And that’s sad for all of us.
My Uncle M. made up for all My Gun lacks when I visited his Estate, a vast Ingenio or sugar plantation, and large enough to ride a horse and not want to reach the fence lines or boundaries. Great hunting and fishing for a ten year old boy, cooking on an open fire, and a Butler along for to help with many of the things a young lad has no notion of. Hunting fowl with a SxS shotgun one of life's pleasures, and others that cannot be described in words, only understood by those in the know of the finer things in life. As I reach that stage in life, it is those little things, that make a difference and add so much meaning to one's life.
A different way to look at it; you are becoming a team. Get her anything that works for her and start thinking and training as a team.
