by Pa Rock
Road Warrior
Rosie and I are back home at The Roost after a very long drive across northern Arkansas. The route that we took yesterday through southern Missouri was about sixty miles longer, but it was all straight driving on four-lane highways. The Arkansas route is mostly two-lane and has lots of twists and turns along miles and miles of scenic Arkansas "hollers" and ridges. (The Arkansas route goes through Eureka Springs - and anyone who has ever been there will know the challenging roads of which I speak!) Traversing the Arkansas route takes as long as the much lengthier Missouri route.
I didn't see anything worthy of note on the trip, but I did hear one radio commercial that was concerning. It was an ad from Bass Pro Shops - Cabela's which aired on a popular classic rock station out of Fayetteville. The ad was promoting sales of "bulk" ammunition. Who the hell needs to buy ammunition in bulk? My first thought was of the Las Vegas shooter who mowed down his victims by shooting from his hotel room windows into an outdoor country concert. He probably bought his bullets in bulk.
Surely our country could place limits on the amount of ammunition that a person can buy over a specific length of time - without that posing a threat to the "right" to own guns an ammunition. The only people that I can conceive of who might want to buy their bullets in bulk would be paranoids who generally feel threatened by others, or evil individuals who want to kill in "bulk." And yes, I definitely do not believe that people in either of those groups should be allowed to own weapons or ammunition.
People like that are the reason that the NRA doesn't allow weapons in its national headquarters and guns aren't allowed in the halls of Congress. And people like that are reasons to limit the number of guns and bullets that individuals can buy.
And you can take that notion and file it under "public safety," because that's what it is. And this citizen would argue that maintaining public safety trumps a misreading of the Second Amendment.
And it's good to be home!
Road Warrior
Rosie and I are back home at The Roost after a very long drive across northern Arkansas. The route that we took yesterday through southern Missouri was about sixty miles longer, but it was all straight driving on four-lane highways. The Arkansas route is mostly two-lane and has lots of twists and turns along miles and miles of scenic Arkansas "hollers" and ridges. (The Arkansas route goes through Eureka Springs - and anyone who has ever been there will know the challenging roads of which I speak!) Traversing the Arkansas route takes as long as the much lengthier Missouri route.
I didn't see anything worthy of note on the trip, but I did hear one radio commercial that was concerning. It was an ad from Bass Pro Shops - Cabela's which aired on a popular classic rock station out of Fayetteville. The ad was promoting sales of "bulk" ammunition. Who the hell needs to buy ammunition in bulk? My first thought was of the Las Vegas shooter who mowed down his victims by shooting from his hotel room windows into an outdoor country concert. He probably bought his bullets in bulk.
Surely our country could place limits on the amount of ammunition that a person can buy over a specific length of time - without that posing a threat to the "right" to own guns an ammunition. The only people that I can conceive of who might want to buy their bullets in bulk would be paranoids who generally feel threatened by others, or evil individuals who want to kill in "bulk." And yes, I definitely do not believe that people in either of those groups should be allowed to own weapons or ammunition.
People like that are the reason that the NRA doesn't allow weapons in its national headquarters and guns aren't allowed in the halls of Congress. And people like that are reasons to limit the number of guns and bullets that individuals can buy.
And you can take that notion and file it under "public safety," because that's what it is. And this citizen would argue that maintaining public safety trumps a misreading of the Second Amendment.
And it's good to be home!
2 comments:
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