Stephen, as a fellow Vietnam vet (25th Inf. combat medic) I do not own an AR or an AK. When guys ask me why I tell them that I used one professionally and I never want to see one again.
Years ago, after President Obama was elected, I stopped by a new gun store in town to see what they had and maybe pick up some clips for my little Wal…
Stephen, as a fellow Vietnam vet (25th Inf. combat medic) I do not own an AR or an AK. When guys ask me why I tell them that I used one professionally and I never want to see one again.
Years ago, after President Obama was elected, I stopped by a new gun store in town to see what they had and maybe pick up some clips for my little Walther P22. The parking lot was nearly full. As I walked in there were three pallets of ARs of varying brands and men with shopping carts (shopping carts in a gun store?) loading up. So I gave the store a look around and stopped to ask the lone cashier if they had what I was looking for. The checkout line was too long to wait for a chance to ask, but I saw--with horror--that almost every shopping cart had multiple ARs in it. I counted 5 in one guy's cart. Doing some quick math, I realized that more than a few of these men were going to miss many payments on their trailer house mortgages....
I went home that day knowing that bad things were going to happen in our country. I never went back for my mags.
Living in a semi-rural part of Georgia, I hear the AR style weapons regularly. Too many of those weapons have been made into automatics; I've heard at least three around here.
You just confirmed my worst fears about guns. These people are not going deer hunting. They are arming up for Armageddon. That is really sad and such a perversion of the Second Amendment. Freedom does not come from the barrel of a gun, but death and destruction do. I'm glad you didn't go back for those mags. Thanks.
Susan, my incident at the gun store seemed to be in response to President Obama and the irrational fear that he would "take all our guns away." But my ugly fears did turn out to be correct, unfortunately in a big way--and so are yours. I have never hunted game or varmints; however, it is just obvious you wouldn't hunt such using an assault weapon. Meat and hide are wasted.
On the other hand, students and people you disagree with (or are afraid of) are easy targets for an AR-15.....
It is too late to effectively control assault weapons, but I like Stephen's idea very much. Ruminating about how it could be accomplished.
Thanks Susan--and my little .22 pistol still has only one magazine after all these years....
Stephen, as a fellow Vietnam vet (25th Inf. combat medic) I do not own an AR or an AK. When guys ask me why I tell them that I used one professionally and I never want to see one again.
Years ago, after President Obama was elected, I stopped by a new gun store in town to see what they had and maybe pick up some clips for my little Walther P22. The parking lot was nearly full. As I walked in there were three pallets of ARs of varying brands and men with shopping carts (shopping carts in a gun store?) loading up. So I gave the store a look around and stopped to ask the lone cashier if they had what I was looking for. The checkout line was too long to wait for a chance to ask, but I saw--with horror--that almost every shopping cart had multiple ARs in it. I counted 5 in one guy's cart. Doing some quick math, I realized that more than a few of these men were going to miss many payments on their trailer house mortgages....
I went home that day knowing that bad things were going to happen in our country. I never went back for my mags.
Living in a semi-rural part of Georgia, I hear the AR style weapons regularly. Too many of those weapons have been made into automatics; I've heard at least three around here.
You just confirmed my worst fears about guns. These people are not going deer hunting. They are arming up for Armageddon. That is really sad and such a perversion of the Second Amendment. Freedom does not come from the barrel of a gun, but death and destruction do. I'm glad you didn't go back for those mags. Thanks.
Susan, my incident at the gun store seemed to be in response to President Obama and the irrational fear that he would "take all our guns away." But my ugly fears did turn out to be correct, unfortunately in a big way--and so are yours. I have never hunted game or varmints; however, it is just obvious you wouldn't hunt such using an assault weapon. Meat and hide are wasted.
On the other hand, students and people you disagree with (or are afraid of) are easy targets for an AR-15.....
It is too late to effectively control assault weapons, but I like Stephen's idea very much. Ruminating about how it could be accomplished.
Thanks Susan--and my little .22 pistol still has only one magazine after all these years....