I'm Right Again dot com August 21, 2019
PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE: The AR-15 Assault Rifle
This includes any knockoff of this most efficient killing
machine undergoing constant use in public massacres. I keep asking
myself, ‘’What’s the reason for this madness and when is it ever going
to end?”
I’m not against guns, per se. I have a Belgian, double
barrel, 16-gauge shotgun a few steps away from me now and a
9-millimeter automatic handgun in the top drawer of a bureau on my side
of the bed. Furthermore, I qualified for sharpshooter with the Garand
and Browning Automatic Rifles at Ft. McClellan, Alabama and helped
carry an 81-millimeter mortar during a nine month “bad camping trip” in
the Philippine Islands
My father and mother gave me a single shot .22
caliber rifle sold in the 1939 Montgomery-Ward catalog for my 12th
birthday. When I was 13, my father let me hunt quail, rabbits and
squirrels with his model 97, 12-gauge, pump shotgun, all under close
supervision, of course. It was a time when men handed down the
hunter-gatherer DNA from countless generations past. My father’s mantra
included this precept: “Never kill anything you do not intend to eat.”
Arizona has more quail than any other place in the
world. I’ve spent many days hunting these marvelous, hardy, illusive
game birds. Nothing is more delicious than fried quail on a crisp,
autumnal evening.
I oppose the National Rifle Association in their constant
opposition to sensible gun control. The President says he is against
crazy people having guns.
Exactly what and when is our Federal government going to start
doing something about it? Make the AR-15 as difficult to own as the
Thompson sub-machine gun, once the weapon of choice of prohibition-era
gangsters of the 1920’s and 30s, now very difficult and expensive for
even collectors to own.
Yes, criminals and crazy people will get guns, but this is
a start at getting them and Assault Rifles off the street.
-Phil Richardson, Storyteller and Observer of the Human
Condition.
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