tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post8142171537904125448..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Jaed's ProposalAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-50939374799295434282015-09-09T13:59:29.205-04:002015-09-09T13:59:29.205-04:00Assistant, are you one of those people who don'...Assistant, are you one of those people who don't realize that New Orleans confiscated all guns from their legal owners during Katrina? Or have you heard the rumours and then discount/disbelieve them?<br /><br />That the US military was actually helping them, even though several military intel branches refused to due to their chain of command having not yet been purged under Hussein 2009.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-46858001410170974702015-09-01T08:12:59.774-04:002015-09-01T08:12:59.774-04:00For years I've been suggesting mandatory gun-s...For years I've been suggesting mandatory gun-safety and marksmanship training, not just in schools but in prisons.<br /><br />Think about how many gun deaths are caused by murderous criminals who can't hit the other murderous criminals they're shooting at, and instead hit innocents nearby. Marksmanship training in prison would eliminate, or at least greatly reduce, that problem. (Plus, if gang members can actually hit and kill other gang members effectively, gang violence will decline along with the population of gang members.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-53684543598870793722015-08-30T20:27:03.497-04:002015-08-30T20:27:03.497-04:00Reasoning... as Jaed and Grim propose has little t...Reasoning... as Jaed and Grim propose has little to do with "reasonable gun control" and what most "2A people" need to admit is that it has little to do with education. <br /><br />Where there is a need for self-defense, there is no need for schooling... just as there is no need for schooling to be a threat. Guns just aren't that complicated.<br /><br />Though I'm the same age as AVI, I grew up in the 'Wild West'. (Google "Reies Lopez Tijerina Tierra Amarilla" for background.) That's the only time I remember my father siding with the Forest Service. My family was not exactly "pro-government" prior to that. (Whole 'nuther story.)<br /><br />Wait... perhaps that whole 'nuther story is pertinent. It involved a forest fire. A large fire that was burning private land but threatened public land. We're talking mid 1950s here. I remember the majesty of the fire and my father's assurance to my mother that it would not come "our way". He was blowing smoke, but Mama bought it... to a certain extent.<br /><br />Long story short -- the US Forest Service had several water trucks parked at the boundary between public and private land. My Dad stole them and used the water (and his other equipment) to put out the fire on private land, thus preventing its spread to public land. That was my first lesson in "forgiveness is sometimes easier than permission" IF everything works out OK. Fortunately for my father, it did. It was not his first, or last, battle with the US Forest Service.<br /><br />But Reies Tijerina and his gang were threatening (and killing) not only US Forest Service agents, but also private individuals contracting with them. Of course my Dad sided with the Forest Service on this occasion... even though he'd stolen their trucks a few years earlier. <br /><br />If we'd had Facebook or Twitter back in those days, the Avon lady would never have rung our doorbell or run away in tears when Mom opened the door leading with a shotgun. And Mom and I might never have had this particular first "grown-up" giggle together. <br /><br />I had an unusual childhood. It would not be fair for me to compare my attitude toward guns to one my age who had grown up in a less rural, less wild part of this vast country. Nor do your parents want to compare their hardships to mine (no electricity, for example). They had other hardships that mine did not have. <br /><br />My parents are probably members of the last generation that took advantage of the Wild West and... made a good living from it.<br /><br />Guns were always there. The reason our family had one when Tijerina appeared was because there had always been bears and mountain lions around. And... my Mom could make an elk steak taste as good as Prime beef does now.Donna B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16771075314473811594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-26957631089823415452015-08-30T14:56:10.569-04:002015-08-30T14:56:10.569-04:00Second Amendment, Earl.
Grim's teacher demons...Second Amendment, Earl.<br /><br />Grim's teacher demonstrates a typical thought process: if it doesn't fit MY thoughts, even if parallel to my reasoning elsewhere, it's wrong-think.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-32833164060185488782015-08-30T12:40:34.801-04:002015-08-30T12:40:34.801-04:00What are "2A people"?What are "2A people"?Earl Wajenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03972213104063301125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-12293902888125830402015-08-30T12:10:03.323-04:002015-08-30T12:10:03.323-04:00Waaaay back in High School, in Civics class, I rai...Waaaay back in High School, in Civics class, I raised the suggestion of mandatory gun training at the school as a means of reducing accidental gun deaths (and reviving the militia clause). The teacher shut down the idea as one that we wouldn't be allowed to debate. But he did allow one more comment, from a (liberal) friend of mine who pointed out that the suggestion I was making was exactly parallel to the way the school handled sex education. We wouldn't suggest that all sex education should be driven out of the school...<br /><br />"Well," the teacher said, "that's true. But we still won't discuss it." Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.com