"You know, it’s those people who really really want guns who are the ones who really really shouldn’t be allowed to have them." Rack Jite
I was reading the Houston Chronicle this morning when I came across a full half page advertisement for .45 caliber Thompson machine guns. You remember, the ones with the big circular 50 round drum underneath, used by Machine Gun Kelly and so many other Prohibition gangsters. Mexican drug lords and the Crips will really like these! This of course is only the semi automatic version so buyers can only squeeze off one round per trigger pull which means they can only kill about 50 students or McDonald’s patrons every 15 seconds or so. An auto switch for this or any assault rifle are easy to find by whispering at gun shows. I know newspapers are in advertising revenue trouble, but this seems to be going a bit too far.
I then turned the page to this story that found me concluding that it is not our politicians or leaders who are the problem, but the intelligent voting public (my ass) and their addiction to violent solutions. No matter it be this kind of popular gungoonery, blind support of premptive wars, the pragmatic need for collateral damage, the utter joy of executions, the need for torture and even the fun of slapping children around, it’s what we are. Lucky we have all the guns we do because we are not the sharpest knives in the drawer, let me tell you…
Oklahoma City druggist Jerome Ersland foiled a robbery attempt by shooting one of the assailants in the head and chasing the other out the door. Missing the accomplice he returned to the unconscious, unarmed 16 year old bleeding on the floor and pumped 5 more rounds into him. He is now free on $100,000 bail. Oklahoma Hero Pumps 5 rounds into Unconcious 16 year old.
Much like the Joe Horn story here in Houston – Horn shot and killed 2 unarmed burglars who were running away(from ten feet away with a 12 gauge shotgun) – it is not so much about the shooting as the public response. Joe Horn was not even taken into custody or indicted here in Texas because of the uproar in his defense. In Texas a hero is someone who shoots unarmed Negros in the back. The response in Oklahoma is much the same. The calls and letters and voices on the radio are in full support of their local hero pumping rounds into unarmed unconscious Negro robbers. Another American NRA Hero, this one from Oklahoma. The Joe Horn Story
The NRA is on a high as never before with Democrats more afraid of the them than they are of Iran, North Korea or Osama bin Laden. Americans will come out from under their rocks, their hollers, trailers and swamps to vote anyone who has anything negative to say about guns.