Gun Insanity

With the gun enthusiast showing up at town meetings with guns, automatic and otherwise, it seems pretty obvious that they are there to intimidate the crowd and the politicians. It also seems absolutely crazy that we in this country have let things go so far to allow such a mess. Where would the blame fall it the crowd panicked and a riot resulted?

I can not believe that these gun enthusiasts who claim their rights to posses such guns without sensible controls have anything between their ears but the need to intimidate and threaten. It is laughable that they feel Obama will take their toys away when it is just their miss use and their abusive threats that will hopefully make the rest of us know that is just what should happen. For the safety of decent people and the officers who have sworn to protect them, such inconsiderate psychopaths and thugs should not have guns.

A case in point--In my area in 2008 an 8-year old boy lost control of the 9mm micro submachine gun as it recoiled while he was firing at a pumpkin at a sportsman’s club machine gun shoot and fatally shot himself in the head. The gun was an Uzi made by and for the Israeli special forces with a fire rate of 1,700 rounds per minute, not a hunting or sport weapon. The boy’s father was ten feet behind him and reaching for his camera when the child fired the weapon. My heart goes out to the mother who, I understand, was not there at the time.

At that show there were at least four children who took part. Imagine what could have happened if one of those children in his panic had spun around and fired on the hundreds of spectators.

There were prosecutions as a result of that sad bit of stupidity, but I personally doubt that those empty headed gun-toting loons learned a thing. And they think they are threatened.