Why Children Shouldn't Play With Guns
Because everyone's okay, I can poke fun.
posted by Smorgasbord at 9:17 AM
Monday, February 13, 2006
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7 Comments:
Poor guy -- he can't help it that he's bloodthirsty.
Who's next? Josef K.?
I figure he'll get a medal. After all ... he shot a lawyer, right?
I had a good laugh when McClellan said they were waiting for the ranch owner to break the story.
Finally, Cheney can now say he has "combat experience"!
I hear he was on one of those "canned hunts", where they drive out to a field where a bunch of captive birds are released for them to shoot at. If that's true, then it's pretty pitiful.
As a hunter, I think that this is terrible. It should never have happened. My thoughts are that when the nouveau riche engage in activities that many of us have have grown up on it is a formula for disaster. Not saying that I know anything about Cheney and his experience as a hunter, just that I would never have shot another person while hunting.
-Jack
Seriously. I think these rich folk go out there feeling all bad ass and just do not know, understand or appreciate what they are doing. The fact that someone got shot hunting, no matter how accidental, is pretty ridiculous. My uncle is an expert with firearms. He belongs to the local rifle club out in Colorado, was a class instructor and overall just a brilliant guy. When I was going to school out there and any time we went out to visit, he would load up the trunk and we would head out to the range to do some target shooting. In all of my education, learning about anything from riding a bike to existentialist philosophy, never had I been a part of an instruction so thorough and well-organized. The first thing he always emphasized was safety. He stressed it. Then he would take out a pistol, explain what type it was, a little background on it, how to hold it, load it, everything. And you would shut up and listen. Ive shot just about any type of weapon I would say, I gave up on the shotgun when I tried skeet shooting (I think I hit 2 out about 50, pretty much just wasted my uncles time and money with that endeavor- I was ashamed of myself), and my favorite ever is the M1 Garand, which General Patton referred to as "The greatest battle implement ever devised." Now, when we went out there it was not an empowered, grandiose attitude you had. It was a discipline and a skill, it simultaneously required and instilled security, confidence and discipline- to use it properly and safely, to be confident that you would hit your target, and the discipline to take extra caution, and NOT SHOOT ANYBODY IN THE FRIGGIN DOMEPIECE!!!!
While we have the right to bear arms, it is one I have learned to appreciate, I also appreciate that we do not have the right be wreckless morons. Anyone. Ever. The biggest problem with it being the Vice President is what he represents in his position, and just how horribly embarrassing it is for this country to have something like that happen. As far as I am concerned, countries should be judged by how easy it is to make fun of and ridicule them.
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