Former Marine Calls For Gun Control
BY Herschel Smith
8 years, 10 months ago
“While I am concerned that America’s current gun laws are too relaxed, this does not mean that I oppose gun ownership,” Hess continues digging himself into a hole. “I have always enjoyed shooting as a hobby.”
Good for you, Sarge. But I don’t think you want to go the “sporting purposes“ route, at least without figuring out where that evil concept originated.
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Yeah, this guy’s a willing tool, meaning there’s really no need to fisk the rest of his propaganda screed, except to say that “law-abiding” is a relative term used to disqualify rights in “progressive” strongholds, and that trying to ban what he calls “military grade assault rifles” is an act of utter betrayal to the oath he swore. Evidently Hess is not ignorant of what that oath meant—he’s just contemptuous of it.
As I said before, I have my doubts he is a former Marine. He’s welcome to prove it to me. But if he is, he certainly isn’t a grunt. No grunt would use the term “military-grade assault rifle” so inaccurately. If he was a grunt, he knows that there are three requirements to meet the definition of assault rifle, and AR-15s miss on one of them. As for the term “military grade,” he knows that the Marines took Remington 700 .308s into Iraq as sniper rifles. The term means nothing. Even the phrase Milspec doesn’t necessarily mean the best or most reliable.
But if he is a former Marine, David has responded as best as anyone can. He is an oath breaker. His word means nothing. As for the appended note at the end of David’s column, sure there are former Marines. My son is one. What there isn’t is an ex-Marine. Unless of course you’re an oath breaker.
On January 23, 2016 at 10:38 pm, Ned Weatherby said:
My late father was a Marine – a member of the Frozen Chosin – and he loathed assholes like this guy. My father also never used his status as a Marine to try to make some point – even on the pro-gun side. He would use common sense to argue a point. But it’s unlikely that an asshat like this one could have disarmed him. Besides, he was an expert with a blade or a gun, including teaching basic judo and and an expert fencing instructor, and knew it wasn’t the gun, but the user, who used the tool to either cause or solve a problem.