[Vision2020] toys of carnage

Tom Hansen thansen at moscow.com
Wed Jan 23 11:27:45 PST 2013


I guess my M1 Abrams Tank, that I'll be cruisin' in on US95 as I monitor megaloads, is simply out of the question.

Gotta love them BIG guns, huh Paul, Wayne, g, and the rest of you chest-thumpers?

Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares"
http://www.MoscowCares.com
  
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"There's room at the top they are telling you still 
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill 
If you want to be like the folks on the hill."

- John Lennon
 

On Jan 23, 2013, at 11:04 AM, Sam Scripter <MoscowSam at charter.net> wrote:

> Thank you, Roger. Well spoken!
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> "rhayes at frontier.com" <rhayes at frontier.com> wrote:
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> As a youth I was a hunter. While I was not terribly successful in that, I did love the forests, the cold mornings, tracking and observing wildlife, and the feel of my old, but well cared for gun in my hands.  As part of hunter licensing requirements, I enrolled in an NRA hunter safety course.  My instructor was also my boy- scout leader.  He was a noble, quiet man who walked with a limp. Years later my father told me the reason he limped was because as a tank commander in the Battle of the Bulge during WWII, he had his tank blown out from under him.  After recovering from his wounds he returned to the peaceful United States and took up the cause on inspiring young boys, such as I, with good values, patriotism, courage, and of course, the joy of the outdoors and hunting.  The hunter safety course filled me with an understanding of being responsible with my weapon.  It was not a toy.  I was taught never to aim at something I did not intend to kill, and never to kill something I did not intend to eat. Of course, there was an element of self-defense involved, but it was unspoken.
> Now, I bring the above to attention because I want to comment on the current “gun control” debate. In a historic perspective, and a very personal manner, I find the arguments for allowing all sorts of weapons to flood our society a grievous and flagrant wrong.  How would my father’s generation view our citizenry arming themselves against each other? How would they view militias of men and women preparing to do battle with our own government?  How would they respond to mass killings of innocent children in an elementary school, or to the machine gun killings of folks who wanted nothing more than to see a movie or to go shopping? Would they arm themselves and stand in defiance of common sense and peaceful reason, or would they expect government and the citizens of this nation, for which they gave their best measure, to address these horrific acts?
> In war weapons of mass destruction such as automatic and semi-automatic rifles are necessary and possibly necessary evils. In peace time such weapons are nothing more than toys; toys capable of awful carnage, but toys all the same. The argument that these toys should be covered and protected by the second amendment to our constitution is nothing less than insane.
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