Chipper Jones, Avid Hunter, Denounces Assault Weapons Like AR-15
BY Herschel Smith
6 years, 10 months ago
That’s the title of the article. Don’t blame me.
“I grew up in a town where two-thirds of the people who came to school drove trucks and had hunting rifles and hunting shotguns in their gunracks in their trucks,” said Jones, who was born in Deland, Fla., about an hour north of the Braves’ spring training complex, and attended high school in nearby Pierson and then Jacksonville. “But never at any point did anyone ever pull one out and say, ‘I’m going to kill somebody.’ Whenever there was a disagreement, we threw knuckles. We’d meet after school and fight. That’s just the way it was.”
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“I believe in our Constitutional right to bear arms and protect ourselves,” Jones said. “But I do not believe there is any need for civilians to own assault rifles. I just don’t.
“I would like to see something (new legislation) happen. I liken it to drugs – you’re not going to get rid of all the guns. But AR-15s and AK-47s and all this kind of stuff – they belong in the hands of soldiers. Those belong in the hands of people who know how to operate them, and whose lives depend on them operating them. Not with civilians. I have no problem with hunting rifles and shotguns and pistols and what-not. But I’m totally against civilians having those kinds of automatic and semi-automatic weapons.”
So the write apparently thinks it helps his case that Chipper Jones is a baseball hero or an “avid hunter.” Chipper decries “assault weapons,” AR-15s, AK-47s, semi-automatic weapons, and anything that’s not “what-not.”
It apparently didn’t occur to the author that Chipper Jones is an idiot. He began explaining that guns were ubiquitous when he was growing up and that no one would have even thought about a school shooting. Good. He is on to something there. He could have explained what has changed and why this kind of thing occurs today when it didn’t not so long ago.
But he didn’t. His setup was badly off script and pointed to something other than the ubiquitous availability of guns and into morals, culture, and [heaven forbid] perhaps even whether the nation worships at the foot of Baal or God. So he would have been better off just to shut up about what happened when he was a kid. Too many people remember that the same way, and are able to see that it has nothing to do with guns.
Or what-not. Idiot. Go back to school and learn English composition. Oh, and by the way, Charles Whitman says hello, Chipper.
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On February 25, 2018 at 10:17 pm, Fred said:
“I grew up in a town where two-thirds of the people who came to school drove trucks and had hunting rifles and hunting shotguns in their gunracks in their trucks,”
So did I. And as you mention Herschel, there weren’t any school shootings. But that was before the left removed God from the schools and the public square and went door to door through every aspect of society tearing down all that is good and right and true. And then Conservatives started conserving the Progressives progress every step of the way.
America was great because America was good. America sucks because America is bad. Dear conservatives, there’s nothing of value left to conserve. It’s time to burn it all down.
Let’s try something radical:
“Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father did.
He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan. He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him. For he clave to the Lord, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses. And the Lord was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not. He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.”
Did you catch that last part. They took their country back it and wasn’t by voting their way out of their problems to rely on men. Look, we’re done for over the killing of 60 million babies but we should try and repent anyway because “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” and the state makes a lousy god. Oh LORD, raise us up a king that would follow you and smote the Philistines.
On February 26, 2018 at 8:16 am, Frank Clarke said:
“…Let’s try something radical…”
Noooooooo!! It looks too much like a gun!
(jk)
On February 26, 2018 at 2:40 pm, June J said:
An adult who goes by the name “Chipper” wants us to take him seriously?
Seriously?
Fuck you Larry Jones.
On February 26, 2018 at 3:03 pm, Georgiaboy61 said:
Note to successful pro athletes in retirement: Just because you hit/fielded a baseball at an elite level, threw/caught a football like no one else, hit and putt a golf ball like Jack Nicklaus, sink three-pointers like MJ, or can do magical things with a hockey stick and puck – does not mean you know jack about anything else.
Prior to his sounding off on the issue at hand, we may have suspected that Larry “Chipper” Jones was dumber than a bag of hammers, but now that he has opened his mouth, we have confirmation of that fact.
On February 26, 2018 at 3:04 pm, Gryphon said:
As Gun Owners, we Must Not Fail to point out at every opportunity that the Second Amendment was Written to Protect the (God-Given) Rights of Men to Be Armed for both Personal and Community Defense, and THE INTENT WAS to Protect the Right to Own Military Weapons. These Fudds and Pussies who say the 2A is about Duck Hunting are Clueless, and need to be Smacked Down, loudly and often.
On February 26, 2018 at 3:05 pm, Herschel Smith said:
@Gryphon,
Every chance I get.
On February 27, 2018 at 11:08 am, Randolph Scott said:
Well Chipper Jones go out there and suck oh a fat one because I really do think every American Citizen has the right tow own a assault weapon. In fact I honestly believe we should all have at least 5 of these weapons plus several pistols of the semi-automatic kind. These are of a God given right to be able to defend ourselves.
Chipper, you and your FBI and it’s ‘Promise Program’ alone with other policies made it possible for this latest event in Florida to happen. This is all by design to take our guns. You can go to hell.
On February 28, 2018 at 7:45 pm, Ned said:
“I grew up in a town where two-thirds of the people who came to school drove trucks and had hunting rifles and hunting shotguns in their gunracks in their trucks…”
So did I. Yet I’m neither an idiot nor a cuck, and you appear to be. Funny how that works, eh, Chipper?