Clay Jones for July 27, 2015

The lawful people DID leave their lawful guns behind, thus leaving them sitting targets for the CRIMINAL…Why don’t Libs understand this simple concept? Criminals do….not…RESPECT…laws and rules.

Yep, let’s have 30 people who haven’t a cue what they’re doing, opening fire in a dark movie theater, that would go well.

LOL today.

An actress in a movie once said, “A hero is a person who gets other people killed.” In a perfect world, people have the training and disposition to draw a handgun in response to a shooter and drop them with a single shot. The fact of the matter is that even trained policemen miss. In a crowded movie theater or restaurant, if the bullet doesn’t stop in the shooter, it stops beyond the shooter. I would not want to be a person who, in hopes of ‘saving the day’, killed an innocent bystander while I was ‘only trying to help.’Straw buyers, the people who buy guns and immediately sell them to people not able to legally buy guns need to go to prison for several years. The Gun Show loophole that allows private sellers to sell guns at gun shows without a background check needs to be closed. Guns, like cars, need to be titled and when sold, that title needs to be transferred, just like cars, boats, and houses. I am sorry so many of my fellow Americans are so terrified of their gov’t they believe their guns will be taken from them. I wonder how many of them know they shouldn’t have those guns in the first place. I am even sorrier that people are able to use legal loopholes to pass guns to criminals who then kill our neighbors and fellow citizens.A quick FYI. A video posted on ISIS and Al Qaida websites tell wannabe martyrs to go to Gun Shows or Craig’s List to buy their guns from private owners so they don’t have to register or pass a background check.The NRA is enabling terrorists and sociopaths/psychopaths to acquire guns and they are using your fear of your gov’t to do so.I own guns. I love the smell of gunpowder. Guns were the first Video Game I ever played. Shooting BB guns, pellet guns, then real firearms at bottles and cans were a great way to spend afternoons in the country. Hunting put venison, quail, and other meats on my table and in my freezer. I am not afraid of my gov’t because our military and our police departments are not going to enforce unconstitutional laws passed by our two party oligarchy. Passing such laws will make those lawmakers(law breakers) an enemy, not foreign, but certainly domestic.Respectfully,C.

@dtroutmaYou go ahead and think everyone will be like the Keystone Cops and get picked off without a struggle. Whether I would make it or not, at least I’ll have given myself and my family a chance at surviving. Good luck at ducking…

@motivemagus

Strange that you think it’s wrong to protect my family instead of cowering like you would then think I’m doing it for my manhood instead. I’d hate to be your kid wondering why my parents would refuse to protect me in any manner possible.

@mwbarr

Are you unable to see the difference between a lawful citizen carrying a legal firearm as opposed to a criminal that wants to just take people out? Where did you see that I opposed laws of any kind?

Did you read about the road rage killing in Florida? Isn’t there a saying (derived from one of Heinlein’s weaker books) “An armed society is a polite society”? This road rage incident involved two people who weren’t very polite. I guess only one of them was armed. Maybe if they had both been armed they would have been polite? Or both be dead?

@motivemangus

I guess you’ll stay holed up in your basement then since you can’t guarantee anywhere besides there from all of the things you just described that are dangerous. Have a nice life being afraid of everything, since you don’t have what it takes to guarantee your safety! You’ll get an apology from me, where’s your apology to me for seeing how I see fit to take care of my own, huh?

“Never pull the trigger if you don’t wan it dead, and know your target.’ Basic rule.

Even in ’Nam, never pulled the trigger until I had a target, even if it was the source of tracers coming at me. (Helicopter crew chief and “other duties as assinged”.)

It always struck me the images of Marines holding their rifles over walls in Hue and blindly opening up on automatic with M-16s. I also never fired a 16 on full auto, because ammo is HEAVY if your pounding the ground, why waste it??

IF you get a bunch of folks with guns in a dark movie theater, and anyone pulls the trigger, you’re going to get that blind fire like in Hue, not viable target recognition. Every time a test has been done using various scenarios in classrooms etc, that’s what you get, and more “good folks” than bad folks, CONSISTENTLY end up “dead” in these excercises, every time! And those tests include “trained” officers!

The real secret is that if you’ve never been fired at for real, the response is to panic and go off “half cocked”, I’ve been fired at for real, and while there IS a “pucker factor” at work, I don’t panic, been there, done that, and I’m still alive because of those lessons. Only those who needed to be, aren’t around any more.

We do NOT need to increase the war zones here at home by putting more guns in the hands of idiots, even so called “trained” ones. Our local cops some years ago had a guy fire one round at them from a .22 pistol. They emptied three magazines each, and couldn’t hit him from less than 30 feet away. He ended up shooting himself, they shot up an Elks lodge, two car lots, and a service station. Seven “dead” cars on parking lots, but the bad guy wasn’t touched by them.(two officers, one full-time, one a reserve deputy)

Who needs a gun? I can take somebody apart with my teeth alone. And fingernails. All you wimps who need guns, well I just feel sorry for you.

^Our local “classic” was a homicide with a barbecue fork.(to the heart)

Down thanks to Roe v Wade