2 Valuable: Dick Cheney

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Dick Cheney

Well, at least one good thing came out of the Dick Cheney hunting trip... I didn't have to hear about the Cartoon Controversy BS.

I am sorry the VP was involved in a hunting accident - I am sorry when anyone is. His position has certainly provided ammunition to the anti-gunners. Most of the pro-gun blogs I've checked out are rather angry with Mr. Cheney.

Yes, I can see why. This is causing damage to the pro-gun argument. But at the same time, let's not be guilty of figuratively stabbing someone in the back. Mr. Cheney has been a supporter of gun rights for his entire career. He stuck his neck out for us. Now, he needs our support.

It was an accident, a very public accident. Let's use this in our education programs and as a constant warning that bad crap can happen at any time when we let our guards down and don't follow the basic rules of gun safety.

How many police officers are wounded in accidental discharges? Military personnel? This story wouldn't have made it into a local newspaper distributed for free at a Mom & Pop shop if it were Joe Average that pulled the trigger. Let's not over-react.

Slicing and dicing one of our own will not get us anywhere, and it is the wrong way to treat a loyal friend of the Second Amendment.

Tags: 2nd Amendment , Dick Cheney , Hunting Accident , Gun Safety , Guns

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Welcome to 2 Valuable. My name is Jay, and as you may have guessed by the title, this blog is primarily about and in defense of the 2nd Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I am also a history geek, motorcyclist, writer, and interested in just about everything, so I will comment off-topic a lot.

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I am a proud alumnus of the University of Michigan, even if it is a cesspool of rotten socialist thinking. It's my alma mater (that means "other mother" in Latin), so don't go makin' fun of Momma... especially if you are from Ohio State.

That reminds me: any favorable comments about Ohio State University or their Buckeye teams left on a post will be printed off on paper, burned, then immediately deleted from the computer system. However, members of the Buckeye Firearms Association (even OSU alumni) get a free pass - you guys do good work for the 2A.

All of my formal education took place in the publik skuul sistim, but in spite of that, I learned how to write and think.

I strongly believe in the self-defense rights re-affirmed by the Founding Fathers' in the 2nd Amendment. The 2nd Amendment doesn't grant us any right - it simply codifies a pre-existing God-given right (as do the other nine amendments in our Bill of Rights).

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Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Dick Cheney

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