More anti gun nonsense from a hunter

[jrosto]

Quail-hunter understands now

AS a gun owner who enjoys South Texas quail hunts and my annual pilgrimage to Georgia to shoot with old friends, I have always been an advocate of sport shooting and individual gun rights. However, the shocking reports from Virginia Tech, along with the searing memories of what happened at Columbine High School eight years ago, have crystallized my own thinking on this issue.

Perhaps it is time for us to acknowledge that unregulated open access to firearms through gun shows, private sales and other means encourages those who have no business owning a gun to get one. We need to establish a clear distinction between sporting arms and assault-style weapons meant only for killing people.

Proper registration, securing these weapons and even banning some would be a small price to pay if it saves lives. In this day of values-voters and culture-of-life rhetoric continuously streaming from elected officials, surely this issue is as important.

BOB CAVNAR Houston

I found the above in the Houston Chronicle. If this guy really is a gun owner, and he has these views, we have our work cut out for us.

[seamusTX]

If this guy really is a gun owner, and he has these views, we have our work cut out for us.

There are about 80 million people like this in the U.S.

- Jim

[shootthesheet]

Many hunters are in fact anti-gun. They think like those in England did before their hunting guns were taken. They think their guns will not be banned. Just those evil handguns and military looking guns. I am sure that will be the first the anti-2A crowd will go for. However, they do not call themselves "Progressives" for nothing. The only progression they ever do is increase their stripping of our rights and property and pushing us into total reliance on the government. So, eventually the hunters have to do without as well.

I do not see how someone who has lived past age 30 could think the way the author of this letter does. Well, that is if he is not in fact a John Kerry type "hunter" that is as false as Kerrys words. Or, maybe he is just the same type that wanted to keep guns out of the hands of the "lesser races" of our past. For them all is okay but, to control the "population" we need new laws. And then more and more until we are no longer Citizens but slaves. We are given rights by God and the last time I checked he is the God of all men and not just hunters. Not even just American Citizens or those who consider themselves better than us commoners. Laws were meant to protect rights and not destroy them.

Sorry for the rant and the length. This is just all my opinion.

[jrosto]

This is just all my opinion.

And a good opinion it is also.

I mentioned similar in the remarks section at the Chron. There is another response that is much better than mine posted there, it is very interesting.

[bigcarl64]

Most of the anti-gun logic is ridiculously fallacious. Many of them assume just because we carry a gun that we are murderers just looking for a victim. That is about as valid as stating that all men are rapists looking for a victim just because all men have a penis.

[pbandjelly]

Carl, that is an excellent point, and that was emphasised by an article I read this weekend.
As I am very new to concealed carry, I have taken it upon myself to buy every gun mag with articles in it.
I picked up the latest issue of Guns & Ammo's HANDGUNS mag (June/July '07), and on page 24 is an article entitled Gangsta Talk About Guns. In the article, it talks about how criminals interviewed for a study revealed that they themselves only carry a gun when "looking for trouble."
I think the anti- movement reads this, sees this, or gets this impression from the media, and then immediately applies this theory to everyone that owns a gun.
the discrepancy in logic, however, finds that the population of criminals ARE NOT the law abiding person who applies for a CHL, and therefore DO NOT share the same view of guns/gun ownership.