Orlando Sentinel:
OMG!! Did you hear??!!
Florida has another gun debate!!!
It’s about silencers!!
The NRA wants to allow them for hunters!!
Gun-control advocates can now start screaming about the dangers of silent mass murderers!!
And NRA members can scream about personal freedom, the Second Amendment and their God-given right to quietly blow away deer!!
If you are worked up on either side of this issue, then congratulations — you’ve been played.
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The truth is that silencers — most of which don’t silence anything — don’t even crack the top 10 when it comes to concerns about gun violence.
If you lived anywhere close to a gun range, you’d appreciate technology that muffled the noise.
And while some significantly cut down on sound, guns with suppressors can still make as much noise as a motorcycle or jackhammer.
On the flip side, the NRA uses hysteria and nonsense to make suppressors seem like life or death.
It portrays silencers as a public-health crisis, claiming that hearing loss costs America “billions of dollars” and that bans on suppressors “are essentially mandating that firearms produce as much inner-ear-destroying noise as they possibly can.”
Apparently the NRA believes gun owners are incapable of using ear plugs.
That’s right. We all do what the NRA tells us to do. And silencers mean absolutely nothing to hearing protection or safety, because as well all know, the only shooting ever done occurs at the range. Deer hunters don’t go on drives with dogs and have to take spur of the moment shots, no, not at all. And sole hunters in the woods going to and from their stands, and spending all day in the bush, have no problem being without hearing.
Everyone can wear ear plugs, regardless of the fact that a bear may be approaching, a human may be announcing his presence or approaching camp, or the hunter may be listening for his prey. We want men to traipse around in the bush all day with firearms and absolutely no capability of hearing anything. Or, we can all take the time to stop what we’re doing and put earplugs in, regardless of the fact that we might lose the shot.
This is what happens when idiots write commentaries.
