tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430759378404982127.post6235837083011433829..comments2024-03-08T23:12:24.642-08:00Comments on From The Wild Side: Myths, Lies and Bullshit from the NRADavid Stallinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15153415881144120600noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430759378404982127.post-30198226101426630332020-01-20T17:33:17.354-08:002020-01-20T17:33:17.354-08:00Thank You for a great common sense article! I have...Thank You for a great common sense article! I have owned guns since a kid and was taught safety by my Dad and common sense ,I live in Chicago and used to love to skeet shoot and did a small amount of pheasant hunting,I always had long guns but never carried a handgun or owned one even though I have shot them, anyway as a kid I remember the NRA trying to pass or keep legislation about shortening the waiting period for buying guns. I never joined the NRA as I felt their agenda was not to ensure that guns were being sold to the most responsible owners but just that they were being sold! I am almost 60 years old now and never have and never will join the NRA !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430759378404982127.post-15216254887571873422018-02-25T17:11:02.255-08:002018-02-25T17:11:02.255-08:00Until everyone that feels as you do, picks up the ...Until everyone that feels as you do, picks up the pen and write their congressman things will not change. What do they write........... They tell the member of Congress the must either introduce or co-sponsor legislation to limit firearms to citizens that hold what is legal to hunt big game. They must have common sense background checks for all sales so those who are impaired and incapable of using a firearm safely can not buy said weapon. Then they must vote for that legislation. If all 535 members of congress received this communication in volume, things would change in one of two ways. Either the legislation would pass or the voters would have new representatives after the next two year cycle.<br />I am writing my two senators and representative those exact words.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07203653676351962260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430759378404982127.post-11221999603903109222017-10-05T19:27:36.128-07:002017-10-05T19:27:36.128-07:00Thank You, common sense is so rare today.
Thank You, common sense is so rare today. <br />Common Sense Sportsmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13172688093853209271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430759378404982127.post-82828523578450366052016-10-24T17:29:03.835-07:002016-10-24T17:29:03.835-07:00As a kid, over 50 yrs. ago, my father taught me ho...As a kid, over 50 yrs. ago, my father taught me how to handle guns safely. He said: "never point a gun at anything unless you want to kill it". We enjoyed many days afield, hunting small and large game. In my high school days, I belonged to the NRA, but when the current leader entered the picture, I was really turned off by his hysterical antics, not to mention the tons of "scary letters" sent out by the NRA, all with a return envelope for more money. Gone were the days when they were more concerned about gun safety, building shooting ranges, etc. Now they simply were an organization with their hands out for more money and they use scare tactics to try to extract more $. I dropped my membership back in the 1970s and I know of many friends who did likewise. They no longer represent us law-abiding, rational-thinking, hunters and target shooters. Thanks David, for another insightful exposure! Keep going my friend...Common Sense Loverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09179518031665091184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430759378404982127.post-5629352510920994122015-07-25T05:14:54.536-07:002015-07-25T05:14:54.536-07:00More bullshits part 2:
Bullshit: We're a con...More bullshits part 2:<br /><br />Bullshit: We're a conservation organization. We're environmentalists.<br /><br />Truth: In the NRA sponsored hunting class I took to get my license, they actually said in a totally unqualified manner: "No hunter has ever hunted anything to extinction." Well, I could've accepted "No hunter in the last 50 years, in the USA" or some such statement, but what a load of hog slurry. The average hunter is not concerned with conservation, they're concerned with getting a meal or a trophy.<br /><br />Using the kill would be conservationist. Restrictive laws that don't allow you to sell the skin to someone who wants it if you don't, even for a nominal fee, and in some places, you can't even GIVE the skin away... these are not conservation practices because it forces the people who want the leather to hunt separately and maybe they will waste the food portion. <br /><br />They only published their conservation mission in the previous issue (June or July? 2015), it had literally never been published before (according to them) and it would take someone with more expertise than me to find the holes in it, but it seemed way too vague to my eyes. They seem to assume that the suburban environment is the only one. Wilderness is totally ignored in the conservation statement. There is little wilderness left, but enough that it should get a mention. It isn't mentioned because of the commercial interests, I think... loggers would be mad. But conservationists and loggers are often at ahem, loggerheads. <br /><br />Bullshit: Trapping is bad. Use a gun, get a "clean kill" it's merciful.<br /><br />Truth: While torturous trapping is indeed an unnecessary cruelty, it's far safer to kill an animal in a trap than it is to shoot across a field at a free animal during hunting season with a bunch of goofballs who don't wear hunter orange hiding everywhere, especially the bow hunter goofs. Yeah, bow hunting is reallllly merciful. Uh huh. Admit that you like the hunter-prey relationship and you want to use a bow because it's fun, ok? Don't go bs-ing about clean kill when dealing with bow hunting. Using the most efficient means to kill something is a clean kill, that' a gun or a humane trap and a gun. The latter option will save the most human lives. But for some reason it's banned in most places. I guess because we're too dumb as a society to devise smarter traps and too lazy to try implementing them. So saving lives is not the goal of the NRA either. <br /><br />There's no reason why the number of traps couldn't be limited, or the type. We're just dumb and lazy on this subject. And the cost is human lives as we shoot each other while hunting. <br /><br />The NRA as it is today turns my stomach and I can't wait until my membership runs out. I suppose I could cancel and give them an earful, but I don't think they'd listen. They have an agenda and that's all that's true to them.<br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430759378404982127.post-69812247576577983532015-07-25T05:13:56.497-07:002015-07-25T05:13:56.497-07:00More bullshits:
Bullshit: Cats are a menace (in ...More bullshits:<br /><br />Bullshit: Cats are a menace (in the current issue of American Hunter published by NRA, title, "Prowling Felines" Aug 2015). <br /><br />Truth: even the article admits there is no known effect of toxoplasmosis or anything else, on Whitetails, that slaughterhouses are at LEAST 38% affected by T. gondii, and that there isn't any risk to humans except under low immunity conditions ... significantly, they don't mention the risk to pregnant women. Why is that? They also don't mention that any cat that has regular vet care is free of the disease. <br /><br />They also vilify cats as if foxes don't kill just as many birds and "small mammals" as cats. Should we consult history and see that the Black Death coincided with an anti-cat program that led to large numbers of "small mammals" such as mice and rats carrying infected fleas to populated towns? Hmm... maybe they need to look further. Maybe those hunters are just jealous they didn't think of it first. You're not much of a hunter if you don't understand psyching out your prey.<br /><br />Bullshit: On a final anti-cat note, the same current issue mentions that you can now go to Zambia to hunt big cats again. <br /><br />Truth: Hunting of jackals not mentioned. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430759378404982127.post-53408194691430771872014-11-09T21:46:37.245-08:002014-11-09T21:46:37.245-08:00End the drug prohibition and as a side effect you ...End the drug prohibition and as a side effect you will eliminate much of the gun crime in the U.S. Drug profits are what fuel the black market for guns as well. It wasn't all that long ago that blacks in the south were living as serfs and armed groups protected the activists from lynchings. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430759378404982127.post-67892015382761912882014-03-06T12:27:27.008-08:002014-03-06T12:27:27.008-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05249994614608787902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430759378404982127.post-80581761708813115192014-02-15T03:46:50.425-08:002014-02-15T03:46:50.425-08:00Two wrongs do not make a right - why insist on the...Two wrongs do not make a right - why insist on the right to own something purely designed to kill? Every war/argument etc ends with dialogue and understanding each others point of view. Sane and rational people try to learn as they progress through life - read up on Harry Patch.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430759378404982127.post-6084781633492242402014-02-15T03:11:24.481-08:002014-02-15T03:11:24.481-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430759378404982127.post-90261971079659057802014-01-26T21:23:30.935-08:002014-01-26T21:23:30.935-08:00Glad I stumbled across your site. For some reason ...Glad I stumbled across your site. For some reason I found it after watching a video of a Mexican artist who had gotten his hands on hundreds of guns, seized by the Mexican Gov...he had turned then into musical instruments and had a group playing...good old internet. Anyway, thanks for giving a s..t. yoredayzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14957539949991806990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430759378404982127.post-69830850830903612602013-10-12T14:27:18.382-07:002013-10-12T14:27:18.382-07:00Again, brilliant! Everything you write is excellen...Again, brilliant! Everything you write is excellent. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430759378404982127.post-86994914106070874822013-09-03T22:58:06.632-07:002013-09-03T22:58:06.632-07:00It's a sad state as they will always preach to...It's a sad state as they will always preach to the lowest common denominator, and we all know they take what is given from the proper channels. Pitting people against their own best interests.. where have I heard that before?<br /><br />I'm a lifelong hunter and was lucky enough to grow up with a father who HAMMERED gun safety, etiquette, and respect into my head from a very early age. He still asks me to this day if the gun I'm bring in the house is open and unloaded.. and I'm 30. He belongs to the NRA, I do not. But it's no use changing a near 70 year old mans mind who's just as stubborn as I am. He doesn't own assault weapons, but he supports people's rights to have them.<br /><br />I don't like military style weapons in non-military hands. Even ex-military. Sure they can be modded for hunting, but we've had much more effective tools for the job for years. All the rhetoric is just that.. and sadly we are in a very tiny minority as modern outdoorsman.<br /><br /><br />Crazy Uncle Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12268647910396467228noreply@blogger.com