If folks wanting to take our guns and destroy the 2nd Amendment could be honest and factual they might have more influence. But with the garbage they put out they become laughable. Dick Polman and John Micek proved this in their June 20 columns.
Poleman wants to “play ball” with civil rights and Micek is mad that other matters are more important to people than his desire to end our civil rights. As usual, like vultures circling road kill, both use the shooting at the ball field of a congressman and other Republicans to push their agenda.
Poleman is upset that congress may ease the restrictions on guns suppressors, calling them silencers. He “knows” that suppressors make guns as quiet as what he sees in movies and does not have a clue how much noise a “silenced” gun makes. In his imagination guns with suppressors make no sound so a shooter could spray bullets forever without being heard.
Guns are loud. Shooters at matches at the Griffin Gun Club and other places are required to wear hearing protection. They are so loud they can damage hearing, especially if you shoot a lot, but even if you shoot only while hunting. It is impractical to wear hearing protection while hunting, so suppressors would be a big help.
Even with a suppressor a gun is louder than any other sound you are likely to hear at a ballfield or anywhere else in daily life, unless a power transformer explodes, a jet breaks the sound barrier or cars hit head on at high speed.
He also uses the attempted murder by an insane liberal to call for more background checks, although the shooter went through an FBI background check to get his gun. If something does not work it is not rational to call for more of it.
Poleman is incensed that there is an effort to allow citizens with a state weapon license to use that license in other states. As it is now, my drivers license allows me to drive in all states, but if I go to some states with high crime rates but strict gun control laws, things that seem to go together, I must be unable to protect myself.
He also talks about “automatic assault weapons,” something almost no citizen owns due to the high license costs, but he also wants to ban semiautomatic guns based on their looks. He says bad guys can “spray” bullets with them. The ball park shooter fired fifty shots in about five minutes and wounded five people. I am not surprised a liberal would “spray” bullets rather than fire effectively.
Thank goodness the Bernie Sanders supporter that tried to kill Republicans didn’t know enough about guns to use a bolt action deer rifle. A normal person could shoot 50 rounds effectively, hitting the target, in five minutes with no problem.
And of course, he blames me, an NRA member, for the shooting.
Micek uses the same shooting to show his ignorance, spouting the same silly claims about “silencers.” He is further upset Republicans are doing the same thing with their improvement on health care that the democrats did with the Obamacare disaster. And he laughably says, “but Russia, Russia, Russia” repeatedly.
Change the 2nd Amendment protection to the 1st Amendment protections in their rants to see how silly they look. Anytime you read an opinion piece on guns or anything else, including this one, don’t believe it without checking facts.
from 6/25/17