Monday, November 22, 2004

Hunting the hunters

Five men were killed and three wounded when a man was angered by his fellow hunters request to get down from a "deer stand". Perhaps this guy was mentally unstable, perhaps he shouldn't have had a rifle. Wisconsin has some of the most relaxed gun laws of any state. Hunters with a history of mental illness can purchase hunting rifles as there is no state background check and only a cursory federal check on an applicants background. The NRA is one of the most destructive organizations on the planet and has contributed to the preventable deaths of thousands of Americans. The NRA recently lobbied for a Wisconsin law, eventually vetoed by the governor, that would have allowed the possession of loaded, concealed handguns. The NRAs objective is to create a more violent society; populated by angry afraid conservative paranoid white men who believe around every corner there is an opportunity to protect their life and property by blowing someone's head off.

1 Comments:

Blogger mochi said...

Racial undertones aside. I've got to think this guy was a tad unstable. After all only one of the other men were armed...

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