Anti-Gun Insanity

The hysterical whackos are at it again in Illinois.

“Anti-gun lawmakers are seeking a ban on .50-caliber "sniper rifles," saying they're favored by terrorists and can shoot down aircraft from a range of more than 2,000 yards -- though they don't appear to be tied to any crimes here in the last decade, a Chicago Sun-Times analysis shows.

A spokesman for the National Rifle Association, which is pushing dozens of its own bills in the General Assembly, vowed to fight the sniper-rifle legislation backed by Representatives Elaine Nekritz (D-Northbrook) and Beth Coulson (R-Glenview).

"There isn't a single person in the United States that I know of who has been killed by one of these firearms," said Todd Vandermyde, an NRA lobbyist in Springfield.”

As I wrote back in November in “Six Dead In Wisconsin” and in September in ”1994 Assault Weapons Ban Expires,” why can’t the anti-gun morons get it through their thick skulls that dead is dead and if someone that knows what they are doing shoots at you with a .177 caliber pellet gun you are in almost as much trouble as someone firing a so called “sniper” weapon?

I have friends that shoot competitively that you do not want coming after your butt with a pea shooter. And by the way, you don’t want me looking for you with my old JC Higgens M-25 semi-automatic 22 caliber rifle with a Weaver 4X scope if I have an axe to grind with you.

It’s a slippery slope, and banning one kind of gun leads to banning yet another, Next they say that you can only own “x” number of guns (I have three rifles and two shotguns—so sue me) and finally no one legally has any guns except the police and the military.

And, of course, PEOPLE LIKE CRIMINALS who already have illegal guns or own guns illegally like felons.

Why do we have to keep going through this stuff every few months?