tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490968631104062308.post1914408454964667924..comments2023-05-16T11:15:04.670-04:00Comments on The Bear Cat's musings: The Long Gun Registry and the cpcBear Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17124562474900147444noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490968631104062308.post-73129676707266197982011-08-21T18:29:10.507-04:002011-08-21T18:29:10.507-04:00When I was in High School I remember my friend Bar...When I was in High School I remember my friend Barry showing me a little 22 short revolver he had bought at a junk store. he kept it under his socks so his mother wouldn't find it. Barry didn't make it through high school - he died in grade 12. he was playing touch football and caught the ball bad, fractured his collar and shoulder and expired in the hospital from the anesthetic they used when they went in to set the bones. I wondered what his mother thought when she found the pistol. That was 1963 and I lived in a small town. Everybody had a gun - 22's, shotguns, pistols, my friend David had an old Snider Enfield that fired a huge cartridge. I don't remember the carnage as being significant - they were tools not toys and nobody thought about carrying one in their truck unless they were going hunting. <br />I have no objection to the gun registry, it is not onerous to comply with nor particularly expensive, especially compared to the cost of shells (unless you stick to .22 short) so I haven't understood why people get so riled about the registry. Except in the context of the government sticking their nose into everything. Which they do, because we want demand the do.<br />Right wing xians want the government to tell people who to marry and what to do with their uterus and what they can use for recreational drugs (nothing) and what can be taught (or not taught) in schools and NOT tell people what firearms THEY can have hidden under the bed. I guess if you don't marry who they want you to marry, they plan to enforce their ideas with the guns under their bed. Bad idea.Scannerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03514966528672897658noreply@blogger.com