"At one of the Gun Blogger get-togethers, I joked around about what gun controllers must do for entertainment – hit up the anti-gun range or go to an anti-gun show. We all had a good laugh over that, but it stuck in my head for a while, and I think I've finally got a handle on why that pithy statement meant something to me." -Robb Allen
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| Here's her post on the rifle... |
Do you know why? Because you can't ring a 500 yard gong at an anti-gun rally, that's why.
The anti-this-and-thats live in a dour universe where a genuine smile of joy is an arrestable offense and a giggle is worth 3-5 in the state pokey.
ReplyDeleteI have never understood that sort of person, I've merely learned to detest them.
Any ringing heard at an anti-gun rally is all in the participants' heads.
ReplyDeleteI did have that same expression while watching Red Sox games last week.
ReplyDeleteYou are right - I fail to see any joy in stripping away people's freedoms.
Perhaps we should set up some gongs at anti- rallies and ring them for those sourpusses...
ReplyDeleteH.L. Mencken said it well:
ReplyDeletePuritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
People that I have known that are anti-gun, or just anti-freedom in some particular way, have seemed to me to be angry that they have not been recognized and celebrated to the extent their emotions desire. Thus, their only remaining "pleasure" is denying others whatever makes those others happy.
The reason I cannot be as optimistic as you is because I am too well aware of those who would be just fine with seeing that young lady dead rather than happy if what makes her happy conflicts with their central planning dreams.
ReplyDeleteWatching the expression on a 12 year-old's face when the youngster figures out how to make .22" holes appear where she wants them to is more fun than actually shooting for me.
ReplyDeleteWhat TBeck said. Except next time that boy buys his own ammo!
ReplyDeleteBut there is some fun in ringing gongs.
Hmm. Maybe that's why the anti-OC protestors here in SA last Saturday met at a restaurant/bar rather than anywhere near the rally: tacit acknowledgement they cannot have fun on their own.
ReplyDeleteI have taught Shooting Sports to Cub Scouts and their siblings at Cub Scout Day Camp and at weekend district campouts. After a thorough safety lesson, we move on to the finer points of marksmanship, whether it is archery or BB rifles. I have seen that smile on hundreds of kids, and am confident that they take the lessons of respect for weapons and the manner of safe handling of weapons with them along with their new found confidence that yes, they can do that.
ReplyDeleteAh, yes. The Smile!
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