Last year, Iain Harrison and the Crimson Trace crew put on the world’s first 3-gun competition to take place in complete darkness. It was a fantastic challenge and even though I became disoriented and DQ’ed myself halfway through, it was still one of the most fun competitions I’ve ever been to. You can read about it here (day 1) and here (day 2). And from the looks of things, this year is going to be even more awesome. I just got my invite, so I’ll definitely be bringing you all the action as it happens out in Oregon. Stay tuned . . .
Just don’t ride the Metro-Link! They’ll shoot ya at the steps of the Eads bridge before ya get to the north leg of the Arch. (It will all be on their “security” cameras.)
No CCW on pubic transportation. Just another Target rich area/gun free zone.
T in STL
What these gun grabbers fail to grasp is that while a universal gun registry would in fact serve a benefit to law enforcement, those benefits are not worth the liberty that would would have to give up in exchange. Here is the analogy I give when debating reasonable but uninformed people.
Want to know how to stop a mass shooting from ever happening again? Want to know how to stop the next Lanza or Holmes before they strike? Let law enforcement have access to everyone’s Google searches. If that data were available, we could easily create an algorithm that would accurately identify these guys before they strike (seriously, we could). Companies do stuff like that all the time for marketing purposes. All you have to do is give up a little bit of privacy, and all our children could be safe.
Would the majority of people agree to such a plan? Hell no! We would rather keep our Google searches private than save the dozen or so lives, even children’s lives, that will be lost to the next mass shooter. We accept that inevitable tragedy because that’s the cost of freedom. But where your average gun grabber would never yield his Fourth Amendment rights, somehow we’re child-killing monsters for refusing to surrender our Second.
The needs of law enforcement is not a trump card that justifies what ever policy these gun-grabbers desire. The cost of a registry (i.e. the threat to liberty) simply doesn’t outweigh the law enforcement gain. For me personally, the intolerable risk of a registry is effect it would have the next time a local municipality starts unlawfully seizing guns in an emergency (like Katrina). The last thing we need is to provide them is a checklist.
This is a good article. I don’t think main stream media will pick up on it though. It does prove the point, and there is a huge sample size. The questions also didn’t seem diluted. Of course this doesn’t go with the administrations meme, so I don’t think this will make any waves. I wish it would, but I am not holding my breath.
These findings need to be plastered all over everything – newspapers, billboards, fax machines (particularly legislative ones). They need to shoved in peoples faces till they are sick to their stomachs, because that’s what I am.
Joe Joe,
Government is supposed to be the servant of the people and not the other way around. Matt Dillon had a gun that had the same capability as the federal government’s troops. Things couldn’t be more different today. Today’s American government is unlike any American government of the past. It is natural and patriotic for the people to stand by our historic codes of laws and values and to call out the corrupt and unethical people in today’s government for violating those principles.