Comments on: Boneheads with Guns http://markfloegel.org/2009/06/11/boneheads-with-guns/ Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:36:46 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Taj http://markfloegel.org/2009/06/11/boneheads-with-guns/comment-page-1/#comment-18846 Taj Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:24:33 +0000 http://markfloegel.org/2009/06/11/boneheads-with-guns/#comment-18846 I, too, support the Second Amendment (being from Texas, it is practically a legal requirement for state citizenship). I support it because I know that it is essential to equalizing the control we allow our government to have over us. In an emergency, with someone you don't fully trust, you want to know you are protected from their nutball crazy ways if said ways should flare up and involve violence and endangerment. So, I get it from that perspective. I would prefer that our system of government could somehow make the civilians' need for protection unnecessary. But, alas, I am not that kind of genius who can solve such giant world problems by myself. That being said, I, too, find myself flabbergasted by the BONEHEADS with guns that periodically make headlines for killing our friends, neighbors and relatives (and theirs). Then, of course, we have the actual depraved murderers, the kids and their accidents, the kids and their not-so-accidents, the angry lovers, the military-gone-whackos, the postmen-gone-postals, etc. Jeez! Makes a girl wanna melt her .45 and throw the hot metal goo at the nearest NRA representative. But then all the "sportsmen" would be very upset. You know, it used to be sporting to hunt human slaves through the swamps of Louisiana, too. Doesn't make it right just because it is fun for someone (even lots of someones). (Just a whacko-leftist aside, there....moving on!) This subject hits close to home for me, too. An idiot, arrogant teenager killed one of my classmates during our senior year in high school when he (like your Allegheny River Bonehead)failed to heed a general rule of thumb with guns: don't shoot them at surfaces that allow ricochet to occur--like sidewalks! So, as my classmate got out of a friend's car, arriving at her own birthday party, the other passenger who had exited before her fired a handgun he discovered under the seat into the air. It didn't go off. Then he pointed it at the sidewalk, pulling the trigger again and making a bang sound. It was quite louder than he expected and my classmate was instantly killed when the bullet ricocheted and passed through her aorta and out her back. I was "lucky" enough to receive a scholarship in her honor that same year when I graduated high school. The other classmate who was kidnapped, robbed and murdered by teenagers with guns while visiting a cousin in "the big city" (San Antonio) was not there to congratulate me. Keep writing, Mark. These things you say: they are important. I, too, support the Second Amendment (being from Texas, it is practically a legal requirement for state citizenship). I support it because I know that it is essential to equalizing the control we allow our government to have over us. In an emergency, with someone you don’t fully trust, you want to know you are protected from their nutball crazy ways if said ways should flare up and involve violence and endangerment. So, I get it from that perspective. I would prefer that our system of government could somehow make the civilians’ need for protection unnecessary. But, alas, I am not that kind of genius who can solve such giant world problems by myself.

That being said, I, too, find myself flabbergasted by the BONEHEADS with guns that periodically make headlines for killing our friends, neighbors and relatives (and theirs). Then, of course, we have the actual depraved murderers, the kids and their accidents, the kids and their not-so-accidents, the angry lovers, the military-gone-whackos, the postmen-gone-postals, etc. Jeez! Makes a girl wanna melt her .45 and throw the hot metal goo at the nearest NRA representative. But then all the “sportsmen” would be very upset. You know, it used to be sporting to hunt human slaves through the swamps of Louisiana, too. Doesn’t make it right just because it is fun for someone (even lots of someones). (Just a whacko-leftist aside, there….moving on!)

This subject hits close to home for me, too. An idiot, arrogant teenager killed one of my classmates during our senior year in high school when he (like your Allegheny River Bonehead)failed to heed a general rule of thumb with guns: don’t shoot them at surfaces that allow ricochet to occur–like sidewalks! So, as my classmate got out of a friend’s car, arriving at her own birthday party, the other passenger who had exited before her fired a handgun he discovered under the seat into the air. It didn’t go off. Then he pointed it at the sidewalk, pulling the trigger again and making a bang sound. It was quite louder than he expected and my classmate was instantly killed when the bullet ricocheted and passed through her aorta and out her back. I was “lucky” enough to receive a scholarship in her honor that same year when I graduated high school.

The other classmate who was kidnapped, robbed and murdered by teenagers with guns while visiting a cousin in “the big city” (San Antonio) was not there to congratulate me.

Keep writing, Mark. These things you say: they are important.

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