You know...I figured here would be the best place to rant about "gun people" a bit...
I love my firearms, as many of you know. I love my rights to have them...also, as many of you know.
But it is WE the firearm owners that are often helping to push this anti-gun agenda.
Shit like this:
Or this:
Does not help the fight in the slightest...it actually hurts...
And so many wonder why politicians want to ban items like these...please enlighten me on the purpose of this firearm other than to kill as many as possible. Like you guys know, I am BEYOND pro-2A but sometimes you have to be reasonable. These items serve zero purpose other than violence...you're not going to hunt with them, there is no sport that uses them and self defense with those items is absurd.
Listen, we all know why we have firearms, its pretty simple. Hunting, defense and sporting. A 30 round magazine for a Glock/pistol has zero purpose in any of those situations...it just doesn't. Neither does a fucking AK with a chain saw on it. Sure, you, I and most reasonable people know these items aren't to be taken seriously but the anti's don't know this. When some California lib holds up a picture of that Glock, or an AR with a 100 round magazine, sally homemaker and Fred breadwinner think "Hmm...those ARE designed to kill people only, lets ban them."
You know...for kids!
As firearms owners, we need to be better than this, smarter than this. The anti's are always going to try to ban firearms but lets certainly not add fuel to the freaking fire buy supporting an industry that makes pointless crap like this. I personally keep a "grandpa-John" double barrel 12ga shotgun and .38 S&W revolver in the home for self defense...not my AR or FN shotgun. Why? Because it's smart, that's why. Using a F'ing AR in a home break in situation is just stupid...and you're only asking for trouble.
I guess what I'm saying is there is no need to poke an already pissed off skunk. Will the anti's always be anti? Sure. Its the fence dwellers we need to worry about, the ignorant masses.
I look at tit this way, when it comes to firearms there's only 3 camps:
-Anti
-Pro
-not sure.
Anti, pro...I don't worry about them because they've made up their minds. Its the mass "not sure" category I worry about. The flitty masses that crap like a glock-bayonet will push into the "anti" category. Is it ignorance? Sure. Is is stupid? Yup. Is it happening? YES. To quote myself yet again "there's no reason to poke the skunk unnecessarily."...
We can sit back and say "It shouldn't matter what we own" all we want...but the simple fact is, it does matter. Unfortunately, it matters to those who vote. I'll give it to you, you're 100% correct, it shouldn't matter but while a man is smart, people are stupid and stupid people buy into the "killing machines" the anti's love ranting about...