Where do people get the idea that if we legislate gun rights away criminals will lay down with the lamb and peace will reign throughout the land? Groups like Moms For Gun Sense In America hit the streets like the prohibitionists of the early twentieth century with the misguided belief that laws can change human nature. These women do not understand the criminal mind. They think that criminals are rational people just caught in a bad situation, and with a little loving kindness, or cooperation, all will be fine. Let me give you a heads up. They are animals. No, I take that back. Animals have a moral code. I recently saw a video where a leopard killed a monkey. As the big cat was dragging her kill into a tree she noticed a little monkey trailing behind. You guessed it. The monkey was a mommy. The leopard stuffed the one she had killed onto a limb, and turned to face the smaller chimp. Now if you're like me you'd be thinking that you were about to see an appetizer. Au contraire! The leopard took the baby into her mouth, and positioned it on another limb. How do I know the cat was female? Because she NURSED the baby chimp! The leopard had to kill the mother because that's the law of the jungle. She had to eat to survive. Killing the baby made no sense. She didn't need to eat the baby.
This sense of right and wrong is totally lost to the criminal. The criminal has a mind set that views the world as an oyster, free for the taking. Combine this with a perverse sexuality that likes to inflict pain, and you have a volatile mix of sex and violence. On the other side of the street are all the socially conscious "mothers" trying to convince us that if we all just surrender our guns these people will all catch religion, and just go away. Leopard killed the wrong mother!
Prisons are full of these people. They form gangs. Pump iron, have sex with other men and they ALL "find Jesus" long about parole time. Once they lose their fear of prison that removes the only controlling factor in their lives. They accept a prison sentence with the same attitude that a soldier has when deployed to a war zone. They don't like it, but it just goes with the territory. When men like this see a sign announcing a gun free zone they think it's their birthday. The one remaining thing that would stand between them and what they want has been removed, and the oysters are all lined up on a platter.
Anti gun people always cite incidents where a seven year old shoots a five year old. It's called gun safety, people. Don't leave your gun out where a kid can get it. The same goes for your car keys, too. And butcher knives, and medication, and Liquid Plumber! Kids are dumber now than they were back in my day. We KNEW you didn't touch grandpa's shotgun. We also knew not to sit on hit pot bellied stove, eat his heart pills, and never talk back! But, that aside a grown person can surely hide a gun from a toddler. And all the "statistics" about you being more likely to shoot a family member than a criminal doesn't wash. Let ME give you a statistic. If a two hundred pound man on meth kicks in your door and finds your fifteen year old daughter, who is the captain of the high school cheerleading squad, sitting on the floor in her jammies watching TV I can tell you what will happen one hundred percent of the time. Oh, your friends, the police, will eventually get there to use that little piece of chalk they carry to draw a silhouette around your daughter's nude body, and you, should you survive the attack, will want to shoot every "mom" you ever see carrying a sign! Welcome aboard the good ship reality!
Gun sense in America? Yes, we need that. We need to have the sense to know that guns are a necessary tool we use to stem the tide of violence that waits in every dark alley, every park, and yes, every Starbucks. We need to let these lame brain crusaders know that we are no more going to give up our guns than we would our tooth brush. We need to push for education in gun safety. I don't support licensing a right, but I do support education. There SHOULD be a law stating that if you want to own a gun that's fine, but you HAVE to take a course on how to USE that gun. You do that for a car, don't you?
You will never get rid of all the criminals. You will never see an empty prison. Society must have a way to protect itself from those people who have chosen to set themselves apart from the rest of us, and those people need to know that there is a price for stepping over the line and that little girl has a RIGHT to eat her pop corn and watch her MTV without worrying about who's coming through the front door next!
From a Simple Ol' Boy From Austin
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