Spring is in the air, and that means Picnic time!
Picnic baskets, fried chicken, face painting and a day of fun filled family activities! Sack races, egg toss, 3 legged races? ... nope, Machine Guns!
I am not an anti-gun advocate, and I do believe in the second amendment. The right to bear arms was very important back when bears were running through your backyard or outlaws could just "pop over" for a cup of coffee then rob you (or whatever). Educating family members in the use of firearms isn't a bad thing, and perhaps even a good thing. Learning the do's and don't's as well as respect of firearms isn't evil or necessarily a bad thing. However, I'm not quite sold on the need for an 8 year old girl to familiarize herself on a 50 cal. machine gun. Whatever happened to Malibu Barbie?
A video to warm the cockles of your heart. Que up to 2:25 to see the child rip a few rounds off.
Now onto the more disturbing issue at hand, the thinking of the (National Rifle Association)
to conduct a criminal background checkand deny sales if a gun purchaser falls under a specified prohibition,including a felony conviction, domestic abuse conviction or illegalimmigration. There is no legal basis to deny a sale if a purchaser ison a terror watch list.
A 2005 study by the Government Accountability Office found that 35 of44 firearm purchase attempts over a five-month period made by known orsuspected terrorists were approved by the federal law enforcementofficials.
The NRA has a large conservative base, and these are the same people that are responsible for attempting to instill fear into everyone that the terrorist are on their way to America to take us out. So why do they feel its ok for the "potential" terrorists to get their hands on guns? I just don't understand.
Bulletfest 7
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