Gun Control is Being Able to Hit Your Target

So the fight still rages, with the gun haters those calling for commonsense requirements to exercise your Constitutional rights own and register the transactions to gain weapons for hunting and target shooting. And yet the gun nuts seem to be moving on from strength to strength. The evil NRA gains $1,000,000 in January alone, that included a modest amount from me to add to my usual membership fees, and the dastardly organization takes in about 8,000 new members a month (that’s to add to the 4,000,000 already registered). Maybe it has something to do with that militia clause in Amendment 2, “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed”? As is stated in Miriam Webster definition two of Militia ”The whole body of able-bodied male citizens declared by law as being subject to call to military service” (Origin: Latin, military service, from milit-, miles First use: 1625). Thus if the definition is not prima fascia political, then why in Section 1, Paragraph 8 of the Constitution, the section defining the war powers of the Congress, are there two paragraphs on the militia; one on the calling forth of the militia, and one on its organizing, arming and disciplining right after three paragraphs on the raising of an Army and a Navy, wouldn't the militia paragraphs be redundant? Or maybe these men remembered that day at the bridge when British forces were driven back to Boston along their own trail of tears after being denied the militia magazines at Lexington and Concord.

Now I’m not gonna go and get my copy of the Federalist Papers to see what Madison, Hamilton and Jay had to say about this but it is troubling to see how easy it is for certain people to get their knickers in a twist when they see an easy victory dissolve before their eyes. Exhibit A--- Michael Tomasky in The Daily Beast resorting to the laws of physics (Newtonian, Relativistic or Quantum he doesn't say) to show a growing silent majority behind the “common sense” position, akin to the growth of revolutionary fervor during the reign of Louis XVI. Doesn’t he know that Harry Reid ran on an NRA ratting of B? And can anybody please tell me why Lefties always pull their examples out of revolutionary and post-revolutionary France? It started with Marx and never seems to end. Exhibit B--- some writer in the NYT called his friend from the depths of the western mountains (Colorado) to come and visit in civilized Manhattan and explain the culture of the “gun lover” to him. The article was just too long and stupid to finish but you get the point.

“Chief Rain in the Face let us share a pipe and you will tell me of your people’s love of the fire weapon.”

“Yes, Bwana let us do this thing and I will not speak with forked tongue.”

Or maybe it just has to do with the liberals never being able to face up to the fact that JFK was killed by a Communist, using one of the better bolt action magazine rifles of the early twentieth century. Could it be as simple as that?

But nowhere in the arguments of, shall we call them the “commonsensers”, is any discussion of self-defense. Everyone can’t be as lucky as we New Yorkers in having a large police force that carries out a Stop and Frisk policy. Isn't that why Gabby Giffords owns a Glock 9? But I can give some examples, all from The Armed Citizen column in The American Rifleman.

A couple was approached by 29 year-old Christopher Rigby as they sat in a vehicle in the parking lot of Earl’s True Value around 11 p.m. Rigby, who appeared to be homeless, asked the couple for a dollar. When they refused, he walked away. Approximately fifteen minutes later, Rigby returned and approached the driver’s side window. Rigby then produced a knife and tried to stab the man in the driver’s seat. The driver quickly grabbed a gun from the console and shot Rigby in the chest as the woman in the car dialed 911. Rigby was pronounced dead at the local hospital. (The Free Lance-Star, Stafford VA, 5/24/12)

Duanne Ammann, 60, owner of a convenience store, was filling a cooler with drinks about 6 p.m. when brothers Quinton Felton, 17, and Eddie Felton, 20, entered the store. Both men were wearing bandanas and ski masks. Eddie was carrying a rifle. With the barrel of the rifle pointed at his face, Ammann was ordered to open the cash register. He was then knocked to the floor where Quinton began to violently kick the store owner. During the struggle, Ammann was able to reach the handgun he kept under the store counter. He fired once hitting Quinton in the abdomen. Ammann fired three more times in Eddie’s direction, who still had the rifle pointed at him. They fled, but the bodies of both men were later found nearby. Ammann was treated for his injuries and released from the hospital. (The Daily Advance, Hobbsville, NC, 5/24/12)

Just hours after being served with a restraining order that prohibited him from going within two miles of the house, 43-year old Sean Parsons arrived at the home of his ex-girlfriend Christina Lewis, 51, and her boyfriend Doug Snarski, 55. Parsons entered the home yelling and brandishing both a shotgun and a handgun. He fired the guns up the stairs where Lewis and Snarski were hiding. Snarski, from around the corner of a doorway, showed Parsons that he also had a firearm. When Parsons continued to advance up the stairs, Snarski fired at him. Parsons died of gunshot wounds to his abdomen and right hip. Snarski said, “I believe everyone should have some kind of pistol for their protection… If I didn't think like that I wouldn't be here right now.” (The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA, 5/15/12.

Two nineteen year old males entered the Palms Internet Café brandishing a baseball bat and a handgun. One suspect swung the bat at a computer screen while the other pointed the gun at customers. One customer, 71 year old Samuel Williams, took action. Williams pulled out his .380 caliber pistol and fired at Henderson. Both intruders suffered non-life threatening gunshot wounds and fled. One suspect later said their plan had been to “barge in, get the money and leave” and he “never expected anyone to be armed.” (The Blaze, Marion County, FL, 7/17/12.

Ruby Hodge, 89, heard someone knock at her back door twice before she decided to answer. By the third knock, however, Hodge heard the door being kicked in. The intruders, two men ages 31 and 42, entered her home and went into the guest bedroom opposite her own. When they turned around Hodge had her .38 cal. pistol waiting. Both men fled but were later caught. Sheriff Fred Knight said, “I was just amazed. When she told me she met them with a handgun pointed at them, she said they went out faster than they came in. She’s my hero!” (SCNOW, Blenheim, SC, 7/24/12)

She’s mine too, and these are only a few of the 100,000 such incidents that happen every year in this country. As the one of the oldest euphemisms about “common sense gun control” states, “When guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns.” Is that really a world we want to live in? For as that other old chestnut says, “When seconds count the police are only minutes away.”

JimG33 4/13/13