Opinion
Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- “During the Bosnian War (1992-1995), when you didn’t own guns, you were literally dead. Many learned that painful lesson, the hard way.” ~ From a student and veteran of fighting in Bosnia
“Gun Safety” is the new, and deliberately deceptive, code-word for the forced elimination of the private ownership of guns in America.
Democrat/socialists, instead of frankly talking about outright gun confiscation, which represents their real agenda, now dishonestly camouflage their true intent with misleading babble about “gun safety.”
To them, the only “good” gun is a sterile gun. Socialists insist that all privately-owned guns be “perfectly safe,” all the time, because the only “legitimate use” for guns is recreation (and “recreation” is never critically important).
The ‘serious use” of guns, they never talk about.
Many in the American gun-owning community have gullibly, foolishly bought-into this “safe gun” prevarication.
Yet, as Jeff Cooper reminded us, and we need to continually remind each other, guns that are “perfectly safe” are by definition, “perfectly useless.”
Guns are indeed integral to an endless variety of non-serious, recreational activities. Each brags of a veritable army of enthusiastic devotees, and one challenging the “legitimacy” of any one of their quaint hobbies will be in for a deluge of acid, self-righteous refutation.
Understood!
And, the preservation of our Second Amendment surely depends upon their continued status as American gun-owners and “gun-enthusiasts,” regardless of the reason.
The real danger is that American gun-owners and assorted gun-enthusiasts will be persuaded that guns they keep must be sterile/inaccessible until the moment their planned use is at hand.
When socialists can thus describe your guns as otherwise“useless,” taking them from you becomes progressively easier for them to justify. After all, your sterile guns are no more critical to your well-being than is a tennis racket or a golf club.
Operators know and understand that “safety,” like “fairness,” is a relative term.
The more “safe” a gun is, the less “ready.” The more “ready,” the less “safe.” Operators continually endeavor to find a reasonable compromise, rather than retreat to one extreme or another.
Legitimate self-defense, via gunfire when necessary, is at the heart of our Second Amendment.
Defense of oneself, one’s family, and one’s nation.
Since we can’t predict when lethal threats will suddenly appear, a reasonable state of “readiness” of our guns is, in fact, critical to our well-being and thus cannot be casually regulated out of existence, as socialists sincerely want to do.
Our Second Amendment was not carefully, courageously included in our Bill of Rights so that future generations of Americans could occasionally participate in quaint pistol matches, or go duck hunting.
We Americans must never forget the real reason for our Second Amendment, nor for the Bill of Rights in total.
We must jealously protect it forever, from all enemies, and there are plenty of them.
/John
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Their MO has, for years, incorporated the strategy of language hijacking. “Assault weapon” comes to mind.
It can be fun to play with their pseudo-language though.
Common sense gender fluidity!
If one looks around at the “gun safety” meetings and does not see a representative from the world’s oldest and largest gun safety organization at the table, it’s time to walk away. Without the NRA there the whole things is a whitewash, and not worth my time to do anything other than oppose whatever comes from the meeting.
Anything labeled as “safety” must be a good thing in the politically correct society we dwell within. If you can’t stop, control or restrict something using facts, logic and truth, then you can always fall back on claiming it’s a safety or health concern. That’s why we have things like toilets seats mandated and designed by bureaucrats with openings in the front that are totally dysfunctional and “smog” devices on vehicles that only serve to adversely affect vehicle performance all provided by government safety officials (OSHA & EPA) to keep us safe from ourselves by enacting more and more ridiculous… Read more »
Your ahole neighbors who needed a job (your “government”) need to be compelled [bodily] to admit that they cannot protect anyone on an individual level (not even themselves, but especially the rest of us). Therefore their b.s. attempts to disarm you must be for some other nefarious reason, and that reason is that they cannot do their communistic and satanic tyranny with impunity while you can still vote “NO !” capitally. The 2nd Paragraph of the Declaration of Independence states no less than 2 x in its flesh-language, that you should chuck such aholes and install “new guards” for your… Read more »
The new agenda for humanity requires that no one will have the capacity to fight back. It has been said: “Our Task of creating a Socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.” No other explanation is possible.
I DO NOT OWN GUNS,i own firearms.if they want guns i need to go buy some nossel guns you screw on a water hose.
This is my rifle
This is my gun
This is for fighting
This is for fun
I guess all the body guards for our most important people like Bloomburg are toting slingshots and spit ball guns?
“Gun Safety” another code word for “Gun Control”, which is nothing more than People Control right out of the Communist play book. A recommended read is the TheNakedCommunist_byWCleonSkousen published 1958. I refer you to page 401″ Current Communist Goals”, 41 are stated, many of the goals have been accomplished, a few do not hold true, considering 61 years have passed. Again, the basic foundations were set in motion 6 decades ago, many of which still ring true today… Socialism>Communism>Gun Control=Disarmament=Extermination… The Impoverished Deadly Agenda…As history has proven…. “Seemingly Utopian pacifists are free to profess their love of a weapon-free world,… Read more »
If it just saves one life – what, wait, does that apply to banning abortions as well, if it just saves one life? Gun Safety is a false safety chilling Liberty. Even President Trump confused the issue when stating take the guns first, due process second! Think about that for a minute – swear or affirm an Oath to uphold the Constitution and then openly advocate violation of same. I would like to have hard ball questions to him about this comment and his support of the bump stock ban which makes illegal what was legal commerce and takes property… Read more »
As they are now grouping all types of guns together I have to look at it this way ( Democrats, communism, socialist, Nazi ,) I guess we have to group things together to try and make people understand!! These are the groups of people who ether have or want you to not have guns! Just look into history and see how well that worked out !!! There’s millions of people who weren’t able to defend themselves and their families!! Hmmm guess it didn’t work out to well when unarmed !!