Entry 001 - Introduction
Hello, hello and might I add: welcome, welcome. I am a seventeen-year-old firearm enthusiast or "gun nut". And thanks to people like Cho and those two idiots behind the Columbine shootings, you may already think I'm mentally disturbed. Which is so, so unfortunate. But it's a common misconception in today's world that anyone with a like for firearms, especially those of a certain age, is inherintly violent or is just waiting to snap and go postal.
I am not, however.
And that's why I'm begining this blog--because there are people, and lots of them, from the ages of thirteen to thirty to eighty-three that enjoy learning about, cleaning, taking care of, and yes firing guns. They are of several various races, genders, religions, incomes, locations, and walks of life. And they are not crazy, violent, or unusual. Just like there are car guys and sports guys there are gun guys (and girls, however few).
But still there are people that think guns are magical objects that can make tragedies happen around them without cause.
Gun sititng on a table? Watch out! It might go off by itself and kill someone!
Rediculous.
Oh no, someone holding a gun! He must want to shoot me or he wouldn't have that gun!
Foolish.
Guns are tools. If a person holds a hammer, do you call him evil because of the destructive abilities of such an item? Or do you commend him for being a builder of homes?
Guns are not evil--they are pieces of metal--they cannot think. No matter how pretty a chromed revolver may look or how crude an AK-47 might seem, they are not capable of choosing how they're used. The person holding the gun, not the gun, is responsible for what happens with it.
And still there are people, with varying degrees of intelligence, that want to ban these from individual use. "Constitution be dammed," they say, or just try to worm around it in order to "protect" the people. If less people have guns, less bad people will have guns, right? Yes! And only bad people will have them! Because bad people are the ones that will break the laws and get guns anyway, bans or restrictions nonwithstanding. And good people will be absolutely defenseless against them because their oh-so-protective politicians made them "safe".
Because if I were married and my wife were used as some sick despot's plaything, I'd be pretty pissed that my government told her she didn't need a gun and that it would protect her in stead--that she didn't need a gun.
And you would be, too.
But depressive thoughts aside, welcome to my blog. I will be discussing various firearm news, politics, new guns, (legal) modifications, and other such things in the coming hours/days/months/years/whatever.
~S
I am not, however.
And that's why I'm begining this blog--because there are people, and lots of them, from the ages of thirteen to thirty to eighty-three that enjoy learning about, cleaning, taking care of, and yes firing guns. They are of several various races, genders, religions, incomes, locations, and walks of life. And they are not crazy, violent, or unusual. Just like there are car guys and sports guys there are gun guys (and girls, however few).
But still there are people that think guns are magical objects that can make tragedies happen around them without cause.
Gun sititng on a table? Watch out! It might go off by itself and kill someone!
Rediculous.
Oh no, someone holding a gun! He must want to shoot me or he wouldn't have that gun!
Foolish.
Guns are tools. If a person holds a hammer, do you call him evil because of the destructive abilities of such an item? Or do you commend him for being a builder of homes?
Guns are not evil--they are pieces of metal--they cannot think. No matter how pretty a chromed revolver may look or how crude an AK-47 might seem, they are not capable of choosing how they're used. The person holding the gun, not the gun, is responsible for what happens with it.
And still there are people, with varying degrees of intelligence, that want to ban these from individual use. "Constitution be dammed," they say, or just try to worm around it in order to "protect" the people. If less people have guns, less bad people will have guns, right? Yes! And only bad people will have them! Because bad people are the ones that will break the laws and get guns anyway, bans or restrictions nonwithstanding. And good people will be absolutely defenseless against them because their oh-so-protective politicians made them "safe".
Because if I were married and my wife were used as some sick despot's plaything, I'd be pretty pissed that my government told her she didn't need a gun and that it would protect her in stead--that she didn't need a gun.
And you would be, too.
But depressive thoughts aside, welcome to my blog. I will be discussing various firearm news, politics, new guns, (legal) modifications, and other such things in the coming hours/days/months/years/whatever.
~S
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