Guns And Idiots
Hello all Henry here. I grew up with guns. My father gave me my first one when I was about 12 years old. I was the most feared hunter of posts, trees and the odd crow bothering our corn. Guns were a part of life for everyone. Care with guns was essential if no one was going to get hurt…but people do strange things.
The Globe And Mail recently had a brief article in which we are told that in Big Surprise Texas (really), a very big surprise awaited a Texan.
“An unnamed man working at an insurance company shot himself in both legs when his gun accidentally went off. The local police chief told the Star-Telegram the man ‘just felt the need to carry it in the office and hadn’t brought the handgun for any particular purpose.’ The bullet passed through the man’s left leg and then his right leg and through the corner of a bookcase before lodging in the wall of a cubicle occupied by a startled female co-worker.”
A man shot himself. In both legs. In an office. Well, now he can testify to the importance of insurance. Now do guns kill people or do people kill people? I think this story shows that the long and the short of it is that some people should not have access to guns. On the farm, guns can be used to deal with pests, or unwanted predators. But this carrying a pistol to an insurance company office is bizarre in the extreme and I expect he deserved what he got.
Long guns are a needed tool on the farm or in other rural areas, but something needs to be done about the huge number of guns in circulation. Americans have the fantasy that everyone has the right to have a pistol
But thousands are killed yearly, needlessly, because of a misreading of the American Constitution. Charlton Heston will not tell us, but it is people with guns that kill people. Really.