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Send your Gun Guy and Gun Gal opinions to mailbag@gunguys.com. NOTE: If we feel like it, any email you send to Gun Guys may be published with your name. Don't hold your fire, we want to hear from you. Sincerely, Mike Magnum, Proprietor of Gunguys.com gun shop and liquor emporium. Epiphany After hearing your point of view regarding gun ownership in America,I had a change of heart.I realized I do really need a .50 caliber Browning Machine Gun rifle,and have purchased a Serbu BFG50.Thank you,and tell Sarah hello for me.Morons. NRA LIFE MEMBER WAYNE MCCONNELL I can't own a gun because I'm a convicted felon. I have no problem with that, even though my conviction was 17 years ago, for a minor drug charge. I haven't had so much as a parking ticket since then. Last week, a friend, and former co-worker, who's been in the nut house several times in the past year, and is diagnosed as manic-depressive and psychotic, stopped by the house to show me his new gun. He bought it at a gunshow. I feel so much safer now. So does his wife. Rick Deprick A Tip and a Favor Mike: Don't miss this news story! "The son of Washington Lobbyist David Keene is behind bars Friday night charged in the road rage shooting on the George Washington Memorial Parkway last Sunday. David M. Keene is the son of David A. Keene, Chairman of the American Conservative Union and Board Member of the National Rifle Association. Friday, the elder Keene released a statement in which he says his son has long been plagued with emotional problems was and adds, "The actions of my adult son were not and are not related in any way to my political beliefs or work and it would be unfair for anyone to insinuate that such a connection can be fairly made."" http://www.wusatv9.com/news/news_article.asp?storyid=12396 <sarcasm>>Sure thing, nutso. After all, how could working all your life to block sensible gun laws that would, for example, keep guns out of the hands of the emotionally disturbed, have anything to do with this?</sarcasm> now the favor....I'm writing another "Year in Review" article for Democratic Underground like last year's... http://www.democraticunderground.com/ Having access to your archives would aid me tremendously. Thanks in advance. --Bob Boudelang, Angry American Patriot Ban Guns Now Yeah, you liberals certainly have plenty to complain about. The number of states with shall-issue CCW permits continues to increase, frivolous law suits against gun manufactures continue to fail, and the public as a whole increasingly embraces the right to keep and bear arms. You folks are just a bunch of sore losers. But look at the bright side, you can always move to England. They've banned private ownership of firearms, just like you want but now violent crime has spiraled out of control. Oh bollocks! You sniveling cry babies wouldn't last ten minutes in London. The thugs and hooligans would eat you for breakfast! Good day, Shawn in PA A Question Hi Gunguys: I have a question for the people running this website since you posted an article about United Kingdom gun policy. Why is the United Kingdom experiencing a major increase in violent acts in which guns are used when they are an island nation that has strict gun prohibition laws that would presumably decrease the amount of such violence? Obviously you have the right to your political and policy views, but if your ideal or remedy would be a system as strict as that in the United Kingdom the question would be why should we head in that direction when it does not seem to be working for them? I admit that I am making the assumption that you would prefer the UK regulatory system but this is because your website is rather vague on what you would see as the idea state of gun regulation. Mocking gun owners is your perogative but to quote the late Abby Hoffman "The price of dissent is a constructive alternative". What is yours? Samuel Browning Donation Yes, I'd like to give a donation, but first i have to scoop it out of the litter box. >:-[ What a poor excuse for americans you guys are. People like you, in my mind are no better than bin laden, hitler, or stalin. you don't say it but what you have is a hidden agenda to destroy our country, our rights, our freedoms, and our american way of life. I don't care how many anti-gun politicians you support, or how many get elected, i will never give up my right to own firearms, from my .22 to my AK-47, I will never give them up, or surrender them. you should all be in prison for treason! Dal777@cs.com 2nd amendment hello i have read some of your columns and am speechless i did not realize that there were so many people that hated freedom. probably like yourself, where you can only see the evil that is done with a weapon. it has more to do with than your columns and your ideas portray it has to do with surrendering to the enemy my country is not my enemy and you will probably twist that statement but if you look at the original drafting of the constitution it is about freedoms and i don't want anyone fooling with my birth rights. if you do not care for my opinion i do not give a shit . i suggest that you go hide under a rock and wait like the cowards that you are. John Holt Hi, Thanks for the great site! Keep up the good work we need more pro-gunnies like you. I'll bet your site keeps the anti's panties in a wad. Thanks, Chas............. Gunguys A man beat his dog with a gun, the gun went off killing him. Isn't that the Darwin theory, intelligence lives, stupidity dies? If the moron wanted to destroy the dog, why not just shoot it? Of course as my father used to say " if you want to train a dog, it helps to be smarter than the dog". Dale shooting gallery new item Bonjour guys, In yesterday's gallery I read the article about a pregnant woman being shot outside a bank in Houston in the"Houston Chronicle". I noticed a side article about a girl(7)who shot herself in the head while her 13 year-old babysitter was there and whose dad is a police officer. Just for the record. I regularly check your site but find it difficult to recommend it; you see, us dimwit French people think that guns have only one purpose: crippling or killing other human beings. And guess what, we believe it's bad and so they're outlawed. It does work, too. But it's probably too obvious? On the other hand we are a nation of hunters and rifle-lovers, but rifles are simply used to kill rabbits and the occasional wild hog. As reports of yet more shooting incidents pile up upon each other, it is hard to understand why everyone and everything gets blamed for it ,with hardly a mention of the turning of the States into an army of snipers.Whom does it really profit? To me it makes little sense unless there is big money behind it. Sadly yours, Isabelle from Toulouse, France Forgetting the Past Considering that idiots with guns won you the right to spill your ignorant socialist ideals,it would be only right for you and yours to thank them instead of attacking them. Your Fellow American, John Williams To the Gun Guy Mailbag I have several firearms. The main reason is because they're fun to shoot. I enjoy the report, the recoil (especially from my Turk Mauser), and the ability to hit a target some 100 metres away. I have also looked at the history of Europe-from medieval days to W.W.II. One pattern I see quite frequently is the one where authority registers weapons and later confiscates them. The disarmed people are then enslaved or terminated. Germany, Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, France... One may say "It can never happen here." With the erosion of privacy and the PATRIOT Act, I'm not so sure. The drug war itself has had its share of death of innocents when SWAT teams burst into the wrong house and fire upon home owners. Searches without warrant do occur throughout this country, in violation of the Constitution. The Second Amendment has been eroding for years via the National Firearms Act, the Gun Control Act of 1968, and the Brady Bill. State and local laws further erode the Second Amendment to the point where the citizenry have no way of defending themselves against those who would do them harm. Does that sound paranoid? If so, then us "gun nuts" are paranoid. Paranoid to the fact that in the past, unarmed people have become dead people by those who were armed. I don't want to end up like that. I have also seen questions asking if our AK-47s and .357 Mags could stop a tank or helicopter? Two things here; 1) If you're asking that question, then you might already think there is no hope of being free from a tyrannical government. 2) I won't even try to disable a tank with anAK-47, but rather with an explosive booby trap or something of that nature. A helicopter can be disabled with a well placed shot, or other methods. Guerrilla warfare can be very effective against a force that uses conventional warfare techniques. All in all, it would be better, I think, if all were armed and carried concealed weapons. Would muggers then have the courage (I bet you thought I was going to say "balls") to mug that older man by the bus station? Or that woman jogging along the river? Or even try to assault that gay guy sitting on the bench with his partner? Would gang bangers do drive-bys knowing that there are others that'll shoot back without hesitance? Would car jackers be brave enough to jack that BMW at the corner? Would a terrorist think twice before suicide bombing a synagogue if he thought everyone in there had an Uzi? Some would be bold enough to do it But after a few failed attempts by the offenders, I bet there would be a lot of potential offenders that'll think twice before making the attempt. Think about it; Most bad guys do not want to die, or be injured for that matter. I bet there'll be less crime as a result of a few dead criminals. But one thing that I would like to see is less name calling (by both sides) and accept that there will be difference of opinion. If you don't want to have guns, fine. Just don't have the Government take mine away. Anyway, that's my opinion. Like it or not, I don't think I'll be changing my mind any time soon. Ya'll have a good day. Kimberley Witchey Something I wanted to point out . . . One of your newslinks for Sunday, Feb. 9th had a little problem with it. It says, "Rocket Launchers in car raise questions, but not the M-16?". Actually, the article says the rifle is an M-1, which was an 8-round semi-automatic rifle introduced back during WWII. The M-16, on the other hand, is a fully automatic assault rifle that was introduced (Exclusively for military usage) back during Vietnam. Moreover, an M-1 rifle should raise no concerns, as it can't accept high capacity magazines, and can't fire in full-auto. If you study the nomenclature of the M-1 in detail, the difference between an M-1 and an M-16 will be crystal clear. I'll assume that this was an honest mistake, since most gun control advocates know next to nothing about guns, and probably don't care---facts don't matter to them, they just want them all banned. I hope to God I'm wrong about that last remark... -Nick Hughes You might find it useful to know that I am a Keene daughter and I must tell you - I've never shot at anyone. I always knew that my father wouldn't approve. Why don't you tell Mr. Mike "Magnum" that his article regarding my family is a load of misinformed rubbish. Good parents can have troubled kids. Good parents have normal kids. We all do what we can as parents and my mother and father have had that boy in residential treatment for anger management since the ripe age of 7. My father doesn't even own a handgun but does believe in the right of a RESPONSIBLE person to. My brother's emotional problems began shortly after birth and my brother has anger issues despite my father's best efforts to teach him and, as he got older, strongly advise him otherwise. My father is a very sweet and gentle person and not prone to such behavior himself. Listen, I'm no "politico" and don't feel strongly one way or the other on gun rights but what I do know is that my little brother's actions are most certainly not connected to my father's political beliefs and I am a little confused at how "Magnum" can make that assertion. Especially when he has four other law abiding offspring. You have added to the misery of my family. The misery which started long before this December when he began driving my brother all over the state to get him some help for his problems. I can only guess that Mike has never experienced attempting to control the uncontrollable because the only thing worse than not being able to control your children is having some asshole telling people that you should AND it's your fault. Don't judge others so harshly - life (and your kids) don't always turn out how you planned or hoped. I thought that was a lesson that everyone knew. Kerry L. Keene |
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