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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRep. Ken Buck: We Can't.. Because Raccoons Eat Chickens
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ken-buck-ar-rifles-chickens-raccoons_n_629a2531e4b0b1100a644842The Colorado Republican appears to care more about chickens than children.
Please, think of the children chickens.
At a House Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence Thursday, Republican Rep. Ken Buck (Colo.) dismissed a proposal to regulate AR-style rifles, the weapon of choice for mass shooters, as small-minded.
Why? Because without them, Buck claimed, ranchers would be completely defenseless against varmint.
Blaming the gun for whats happening in America is small-minded, he said.
In rural Colorado, an AR-15 is a gun of choice for killing raccoons before they get to our chickens, Buck added. It is the gun of choice for killing a fox, it is a gun that you control predators on your ranch, on your farm, on your property.
If it sounds preposterous, thats because it is. As this NRA story detailing a prolific raccoon hunter makes abundantly clear, a small caliber, lever-action rifle is more than capable of keeping the animal at bay.
Bucks office didnt respond to a request for comment regarding how many chickens the life of one child is worth.
Oh Why didnt yall just say so? We have to protect the chickens from the raccoons. Cool cool, tweeted Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.). So thats why our kids have to die in their classrooms. So we can protect the chickens. Makes total sense now.
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Rep. Ken Buck: We Can't.. Because Raccoons Eat Chickens (Original Post)
TeamProg
Jun 2022
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Haggard Celine
(16,844 posts)1. Maybe we should all have grenades.
Sure, you can kill most vermin with a small caliber gun, but it's a lot more fun to blow them to smithereens!
Mz Pip
(27,439 posts)2. If you need an AR 15 to kill raccoons
Youre doing it wrong.
MyOwnPeace
(16,925 posts)3. My Grandfather and Dad had a 'hound-dog'.........
he was MORE than capable of taking of any 'terrorist' raccoons - with one mighty swipe.
Why don't we offer something like THAT as a solution to the 'GREAT (sic) Representative of Colorado?