Gun-Grabbers Don't Hate Guns...

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[Dylan]

[Southern Dad]

My daughter is twelve and has fired weapons on a range with qualified personnel present. Yes, I know that a girl fired an automatic weapon and killed an instructor. It has not changed my view on it. Of course, I wouldn't have my daughter firing an Uzi. The truth of the matter is that when I was growing up we lived on a farm. From the time I was old enough to do chores, I carried a knife. When I went into the hay or the woods, I had a rifle. Adults carried pistols, kids had rifles. No one thought of gun control. We thought of snake control. We thought of bear control, fox control, wolf control. (We never actually encountered the bears and a .22 would have just made them mad.) I can't imagine living on a farm and not having a weapon.

My grandfather lived to be 105-years-old. He still did chores every day that caused him to go into a field, woods or whatever. With the exception of Sunday church, I can't remember my grandfather ever not having a sidearm. If someone would have told him that he couldn't have a weapon because he was over 45, I'm not sure how that would have turned out.

No doubt that I grew up in a different time. I remember a vo-ag teacher asking for a knife to open a bale of hay. There were ten or twelve boys in the class, and all of us reached for our pockets. Yet, there was never a single stabbing. Now, with the zero tolerance policies at schools if you brought that little bitty knife in from the Clue board game, you'd be expelled. Things are changing.

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