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“We have got to do something.”

    Any shooting like the one in Uvalde, Texas where innocent children are killed is horrible, but do not blame me and other law-abiding gun owners.  Blame the low-life evildoer that did it.

    Unlike the gun ban vultures that started circling and crying the “do something” mantra before the first body was recovered from the school in Texas, I tried to listen to all the conflicting reports and wait for valid information.

    The “something” gun banners always demand is “common sense” gun bans.  There is nothing “common” about their demands and if they made “sense” they would not have to exaggerate and tell half-truths to outright lies.

    I have been disappointed and amazed, but not surprised, by the bald face lies and stupid comments to uninformed babbling from everyone from personal friends to the president. 

    Biden’s comments have been weird.  First, he said something about the 2^nd Amendment not really meaning “shall not be infringed” because citizens could not own cannons when it was passed.  When he was told by constitutional scholars like John Turley that he was wrong, in fact you can still own a cannon today, he continued to tell that lie.

He then began babbling about how a .22 caliber bullet would lodge in the lungs, but a 9 mm “big caliber” bullet would blow the lungs out.  That is an inane comment by anyone familiar with guns and bullets. 

But somehow it relates to banning “assault” weapons, meaning the AR-15.  AR stands for the company that developed the gun, Armalite, is in no way an “assault” weapon, no military in the world uses it.  And the most common caliber for it is .223, apparently less dangerous to Biden than the dreaded 9 mm.

One TV commentator said it was ridiculous an 18-year-old could go buy an automatic rifle and more than 300 round of ammo without a background check.  Fortunately, a guest on the show pointed out the rifle was not automatic, he went through a background check and it is not uncommon, especially in that area to buy large amounts of ammo. 

Personally, I have purchased more than 1000 rounds of 7.62×39 ammo at one time for target practice to save money.  Shooting more than 100 rounds in one target shooting session is not uncommon.  And common .22 long rifle bullets I shoot in my semiautomatic squirrel gun I have owned since I was eight years old come in boxes of 525 rounds.

Calls for extended background checks are another “common sense” waste.  The background check in place for years did not work this time so let’s make you get one on your child before giving them a gun for Christmas with an “extended” background?

All guns bought from licensed gun dealers must go through the current background check. The proposed “extended” check would have made no difference since the shooter in Texas bought his gun from a licensed dealer, already covered in the current law.

The sale of over 100 brands of rifles defined as “assault” guns were banned for ten years, from 1994 through 2004. One liberal commentator told this lie: “Mass shootings dropped by 40 percent during the ‘assault weapons’ ban.” 

Here is what Factcheck.org says: “A RAND review of gun studies, updated in 2020, concluded there is “inconclusive evidence for the effect of assault weapon bans on mass shootings.”  Seems a 40 percent drop would be pretty “conclusive” evidence, if it was true.

It didn’t work the first time, lets lie about it and do it again.

I keep hearing “Nobody needs an assault weapon.”  Yet they can’t define what they consider an “assault weapon,” it is a constitutional right and there are many reasons to own one. That is why there are somewhere between 10 and 20 million correctly called “modern sporting rifles” in the US.

One senseless murder is too many, but if these guns were the problem such shootings would be much more common.

Confiscation of all guns is the ultimate goal of some.  But if you confiscate all rifles, from my old .22 through all deer rifles to modern sporting rifles, you might somehow eliminate guns that are used in 2.9 percent of all homicides in the US. 

The most recent data I can find from the FBI shows homicides by all rifles in 2019 was 364, compared to 1476 by knives, 1591 by blunt objects and 600 by fists and feet.

If you want to have a rational discussion on gun control, don’t exaggerated, tell lies and make up numbers to try to push your agenda.  I will rely on facts, not emotions.

If you just have got to do “something,” go spit on the insane murderer’s grave. It may make you feel better and it will be just as effective as all the proposed gun control laws put together.

3/7/26

    I got a BB gun when I was six years old. The pump Daisy was a reward for having my tonsils taken out.  I had almost worn it out four months later at Christmas when I got a very strong BB gun. I do not remember the brand, but you pushed the barrel down to set it. It was stronger than anything my friends had, other than pellet guns.

    For my eight birthday I was given a well-used Remington semiautomatic .22. It had a high-capacity magazine holding 17 long rifle bullets.  I hunted with that gun until I got a new .22 when I was 12. It was like the old one, semiautomatic with a high-capacity magazine, but it was not worn out and seldom jammed, unlike the old one,

    When I was ten I got my first shotgun, a single shot 410.  And I had access to three other shotguns, all 12 gauges. The Winchester 1996 pump was grandaddy’s gun and it still had Daddy’s 1938 hunting license, his fist, rolled up in the stock. 

There were two semiautomatic 12 gauges. One with a short barrel and flash suppressor was for quail. I never got the full story of how that Navy guard gun got from base after WW2 to daddy’s hands. Something about a friend still in service taking it apart and mailing it piece by piece to him. But the friend never came to pick it up. 

The humpback Remington had a long barrel and would reach out and hit doves a long way away. I shot many doves with it. The short barrel one I used mostly for rabbits but I did shoot a few quail with it.

I got a Marlin lever action 30-30 deer rifle for my 16^th birthday. As an adult, I got a 7mm Mag deer rifle as a going away (or good riddance) present from the bus drives and garage crew when I left Pike County after 14 years.

 I have bought more than a dozen pistols, mostly semiautomatic, with high-capacity magazine. The first pistol I bought was a well-used .38 police special that I still carry.  And the one I shoot most since the bullets are inexpensive for practice is a semiautomatic .22.

When Clinton banned “assault weapons” I quickly bought two, an MAK 90 that is the same as an AK 47 but with a thumb hole stock, and a .223 Colt AR 15 style rifle. Both have multiple 30 round magazines

All this is to say I know guns and have had and shot a variety of them all my life.  I know guns are tools, just like a hammer or ice pick. All can be misused, but the tool itself it not evil or to blame.

Since I was old enough to know, I have been an adamant supporter of the 2nd Amendment.  I believe the Bill of Rights when it says owning and using guns is a right that is not to be infringed. I have fought every way I could against laws that punish law-abiding citizens like me but have no effect on criminals.

For years Jay Bookman was an editorial writer for the Atlanta Journal Constitution. He was reliably liberal to the point I read everything he wrote and assumed the opposite was true. Cynthia Tucker was his editorial boss and even more liberal, if possible.

I grew up spreading the Atlanta Journal on the floor and reading it after school, long before I could hold it up without problems. And I read the combined Journal and Constitution on Sundays.  Tucker and Bookman, and the bleed over of liberal bias into news articles, made me  cancel my subscription to the AJC I had had since I was 21, but we still got it at work

In the 1980s every time Bookman wrote an anti-gun editorial, always fill of half-truths, false information and outright lies in my opinnion, I gave a membership in the NRA to a youth, in his name. I would send him a thank you note from them.  I always got their parents permission to give them the membership. I hope that helped create some pro-gun rights youth that grew into pro-gun adults.

Bookman left the AJC a few years ago, for some reason. Now he writes his propaganda for another group.  I see it online and, unfortunately, in the Griffin Daily News.

Read his articles. Think about them. Do a little research on anything he says. Decide for yourself.

Many folks ask why I read his stuff and listen to liberal media.  The bible says, “know they enemy.”  I keep up with what they say, research to find the truth, and make up my mind what is true and what is hype. You should do the same.