“The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.”— Colonel Jeff Cooper, The Art of the Rifle
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Posted by daddybear71 on December 22, 2012
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/ December 24, 2012You know, I used that argument when I was debating gun control with my half-cousin (whose belief is—seriously—that we should have a society in which only the criminals have guns). He said he’d never heard of a gun referred to as merely a “tool” before, and he’d much rather defend himself with a knife. Because, after all, he can disarm someone with a knife. He didn’t like it when I pointed out that a knife is a close-quarters weapon, and a criminal entering my home with a gun would have ME disarmed from a distance, before I could get close enough to use the knife. Another friend of his argued that my analysis that a gun by itself is merely a hunk of innocuous metal, much like a hammer, was basically an insult to hammers everywhere and that hammers were not “inherently dangerous.” I gave up, and my cousin cried “Crickets.” I decided not to dignify that with a response.
Hilariously, my cousin is Texas born and raised. Still lives there. It’s amazing to me that he hasn’t been tarred and feathered by his neighbors.
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