Hiya lazs, I know we're both early risers... and that's when you get yer BBS time in. But I'm sleeping in, and unfortunately we're not gonna be able to have breakfast together today. So I'll leave ya with this to keep ya busy, and we'll do breakfast tomorrow.
Guns. And Lazs.
There is a striking simularity in all this with the PETA action. You get one set of nutjobs saying its bad to eat meat, and the other side goes "Oh yeah?!" and proceeds to rub a porkchop all over themselves.
Who is ultimately right? It doesn't matter. Because by that point, who cares ? They're all looney tunes.
It is my completely bullchit opinion that you are doing guys like Toad (I'm gonna use him as an example for a while) and all the regular gun owners out there one huge disservice.
They got guns. They actually
use them for something. They're well aware of the whole gun debate and the 2nd amendment etc. But you never hear Toad talking about protection from any home invasion, or if a sawed-off would better do the trick if you encountered the invader in a narrow hallway.
Or making Dixon California safe.
Okay, comparison's sake.... ya look at the fishing BBS' and its all about the craft, the technique. Once in a long LONG long while you get someone talking about some political issue. But very few and far between. Mostly, yeah, it's about fishing.
Why is it then that the gun discussions here never seem to revolve around, well,
using GUNS?
Lazs, back last Fall you mentioned some book which is called (I think) The Arming of America. Something like that anyways. At that point I had seen you reference it so many times that I had to check. I did a search on lazs + arming america. I got back no less than 18 billion, 3 quadrillion and seventy-two threads with your name on it.
A political book. About gun ownership. Not about gun shootin'. Not about guns themselves. No... Just gun rats. That's all. 18 billion, 3 quadrillion and seventy-two threads about nothing more than gun rats.
What I'm saying Lazs, is that guys like you pick fights, and you get them. Guys like Toad never pick fights, never start threads about guns. They just go out in the hills somewhere and shoot stuff.
Contrary to however big you think the bogeyman is that you've constructed, nobody really has that much of a prollem with that.
But you are that different breed of gun owner. Your gig is defence. Aside from blastin' a few bottles here and there, you own guns for defence, and you make threads about guns in order to defend the guns you own to defend yourself.
I would say, quite frankly, that it would be a huge mistake for regular gun owners to get too entwined in a lazs gun rats debate. Lest risking spreading porkchop on themselves. There are plenty of good reasons to own guns. But those reasons go right out the window when the predominant reason seems to have become enabling one's self to spend hours arguing about merely owning guns, and merely the right to do so.
At least those types of guys get driven off the fishing BBS faster than you could say "Bang, you're dead." Because, who needs it?
Anyways, good morning.
