Monday - December 17, 2012

Debate Killer

You can buy a two shot, .38 Special, second hand derringer for about $75. They only cost about $150 when brand new. You can spend more, but for a gun that will be fired only twice, why bother?

They aren’t automatics, semi-automatics, revolvers, or even (theoretically) repeaters. They are palm sized pistols that have two stubby barrels. The pistols hold 2 rounds, and each one gets it’s own little barrel.

You could put about a dozen of them in the pockets of a large man’s field coat. With pockets on both sides you could have 25 little pistols hidden on you, and nobody would really notice. Except for the clanking I guess.

Thus you’d have nearly 50 shots that you could shoot off in a very short time; what’s an extra second digging another derringer out of you pocket as you shoot 2 shots with a derringer in your other hand? Especially if you’re the only one around with a firearm in one of those extra-safe Gun Free Zones that are supposed to protect us all.

And at shooting distances from arm’s length to across the room, these pistols are sufficiently accurate and sufficiently lethal.

Bang bang. Drop, while pulling out another with your other hand. Bang bang. Drop, while pulling out another with your other hand. Bang bang. Drop, while pulling ... you get my point. Easy enough to get off at least 30 lethal shots in a minute, a minute and a half, at classroom distances. Easy.

In other words, the only way to use gun control to actually slow down mass killers when they go on their killing spree is to confiscate every last firearm in the entire country and replace them with single shot weapons that are far too large to conceal. You know, like the muskets that were around in 1776. Six feet long, and needing about 45 seconds to reload, even if you’re an expert.

Nothing else is going to do it. Seriously. Every single kind of repeating firearm - in other words, damn near every gun made since 1875 - would have to be turned in or confiscated. Hundreds and hundreds of millions of them. Then, assuming you have the proper permits, assuming you can pass the ever more difficult mental test, assuming you haven’t exceeded your monthly or annual purchase allotment, and assuming you can provide the authorities a sufficiently good reason why you NEED to purchase a gun or purchase a second or third one, then you can have some sort of break-action single shot stovepipe.

Ammunition purchase and possession would of course be by permit, once you’ve shown a previously issued hunting license or membership card for a shooting club, plus an issued owner’s permit for a firearm of that caliber; records of each round fired will have to be kept and uploaded to the government, and you will not be allowed to have more than 3 rounds in your home at any one time regardless of how many firearms you own. And our political masters will call this “reasonable and proper limits” on our rights, and our children will never ever question that statement. Never. Ever.

Otherwise, having a debate on gun control is an utter waste of time. Go all the way, or don’t bother to go at all.

I am not kidding. This is what it would take to actually PREVENT the next lunatic from going on a shooting spree at a school or day-care center. The ONLY thing. Every last house in the nation searched, every last firearm confiscated or turned in. Every round of ammunition.

And let’s get moving on those stab-proof knives in this country too. And bows and arrows as well. Crossbows. And slingshots. And hammers that weigh more than 4 ounces. And all nails more than 2” long. And nail files. And pointy scissors. And pencils and pens that are too pointy. And rolling pins. And swords of course. And any cane or walking stick made of anything more sturdy than closed cell foam. And hockey sticks. Baseball bats not made of straw or hollow thin yellow plastic. All of them, potential instruments of mass murder. Take them away.

After all, it’s for the children. So act now. After all, the MSM, even Fox News, is now reporting that “the majority of Americans are in favor of more gun control”.

What a absolute load of shit.

Posted by Drew458     on 12/17/2012 at 07:11 PM   
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