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| Why Civilian Ownership of Guns is Needed |
| 2013-04-24 |
| In the wee hours of Friday morning, April 19th, I evolved on guns. First, a confession: I’ve never owned a gun. I never wanted one in my home and, like a lot of moms, I wanted to raise non-violent children and thought keeping guns out of our home was one way to do that. When my kids were young, I didn’t want them to play with toy guns — in fact, I was rather insistent about it. Eventually, I realized that little boys will make guns out of just about anything — bananas, sticks, the dog’s paw, their fingers — nothing is safe from their imaginative minds. So I compromised and allowed squirt guns and non-gun-looking Nerf guns, but nothing that resembled a “real” gun. Very well-thought-out piece. Read it all. |
| Posted by:Deacon Blues |
| #8 700+ Kiowa, Comanch, Cheyenne vs 28 Buffalo hunters armed with Sharps = the Buffalo Hunters win (2nd Battle of Adobe Walls). See also battle of Buffalo Wallow. 6 troopers and scouts vs 100's of Indians. On the Plains, shooters were dropping Indians a mile away. |
| Posted by: wr 2013-04-24 16:04 |
| #7 The Garand. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-04-24 15:04 |
| #6 How about an M1 vs. an M16? A regular M1 or the M1A1? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2013-04-24 12:15 |
| #5 THe Sharp had a far superior effective range. Get into the right position and you can wipe out the Winchester force. How about an M1 vs. an M16? Just askin'. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-04-24 11:49 |
| #4 Forget guns. Ban Chechens. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-04-24 11:47 |
| #3 THe Sharp had a far superior effective range. Get into the right position and you can wipe out the Winchester force. |
| Posted by: JFM 2013-04-24 11:04 |
| #2 ..or at least outgun the state. Sort of like Custer with single firing Sharps against them injuns with Winchester repeaters. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-04-24 08:47 |
| #1 I actually think it would be better to disarm the state and deputise armed civilians as needed. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-04-24 08:02 |