ANTI-GUN Mentality Alive and Thriving

Posted on | January 22, 2011 | No Comments

Today will mark two weeks since a deranged individual took a Glock and went on a rampage in Tuscon, Arizona. In the end, six persons were killed and nineteen were wounded. Congresswoman Giffords was the nutjob’s main target. Let’s be clear, no law-abiding gun owner wants the negative publicity this type of occurrence brings. We, (gun owners) just want to enjoy our sport of choice and all the variations of that sport. Yes, assault rifles, large caliber, rapid fire, large capacity-clip, etc. are all part of the sporting culture we call our own. Unfortunately, when this idiot and other idiots like him decide to get their “15 minutes of fame”, things like this happen. More laws won’t stop these events. Banning any or all weapons won’t stop these events. Deranged persons who are hell bent on destruction, are going to create destruction. Simple as that.

In today’s world, information is instant. The internet along with a myriad of electronic devices have virtually turned almost every living person into a reporter, witness and sometimes unwilling participant. Just one week from the shooting in Tuscon, these two magazines hit the mailboxes of subscribers everywhere:

Time Magazine and Bloomberg Businessweek (January 24th 2011)

In one weeks’ time, literally millions of pieces of information were gathered, analyzed, collated, postulated, debated and so on, and published so quickly, newspaper men from the early 1900’s would be astounded.

I am urging all members of the gun culture; sporting, collectors, competitors, and protectors, to realize that this act is a crime by an individual. The act of a deranged person. It is what it is, a tragedy, but a crime nonetheless.

For the Anti-Gun persons out there, Try not to let fear cloud judgment. Please, don’t blame ALL guns or gun owners for this one persons’ murderous crime. Let him stand trial and be punished to the fullest extent of the law. I would go so far as to say “televise” his execution. Maybe that would show people like him, that there are consequences for their actions.

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