Reply #24: Gun nuts

[patriotproud]

All rifles are "high powered." (except maybe a
22LR). I suspect Dave means rifles with high capacity
magazines which, face it, are designed for killing people,
period. If you can't hit a deer or elk with one or two rounds
and a scope you need to find something else to do.

I agree 100% that the idea that me and my neighbors are
keeping our guns so that we can be some sort of check on
excessive government force is lunacy. If they want you dead,
they surround your house, set it on fire, and shoot you when
you come running out (witness many westerns and recent
government police actions). And if you think your courageous
neighbors are going to band together into an armed resistance
group and start a gun battle with the police to save you, I
think you're deluded about your neighbors. 

I like to shoot and appreciate the deadly beauty of firearms,
but IMHO gun people are missing something upstairs (or in
their souls). There's this huge industry and pseudo-science
around guns but you do a little research and discover that in
one week, 40 hours, of study you can be a gun expert
(seriously, if you have normal intelligence you'll know more
about firearms that 90% of the gun nuts). That's about the
simplest science I've ever heard of.

The bravest people I've ever known were all pacifists. I keep
my guns to protect me from gun people.