The Problem With Gun Owners

I am about as pro-gun as you can get - but I do have a problem with many gun owners.

Let me give you an example from the 2000 Presidential race.

Co-worker: I'm going to vote for Al Gore
Jay: Why? You hunt, don't you want to keep your gun?
Co-worker: He won't take my shotgun. Gore only wants to get rid of "bad guns"
Jay: What are "bad guns"?
Co-worker: You know, machine guns, stuff that can hurt people.
Jay: New machine guns are already illegal. He can't make them "more banned" than they are now.
Co-worker:Well, I think most guns are bad. He is from Tennessee, so he understands hunting. He won't take my hunting shotgun.
Jay: He worships the earth. Are you sure he won't take your gun and all hunting away as well?

This gentleman also supported Gore even though he wanted to ban the internal combustion engine. As we were both Michiganians who make their living from the auto industry, I couldn't understand why this didn't bother him.

Jay: What about the internal combustion engine? We need that to make cars.
Co-worker: Gore wouldn't end our jobs without making sure we had a comparable job to go to.
Jay: Comparable job where? In what industry?

Fast forward to John Kerry in 2004. Same scenario (with guns), and John Kerry "won't take my shotgun."

I think it comes down to this: many gun owners fall victim to the same lies spewed forth in public - and a lot of private - education.

Unlike our Founding Fathers, and their very clear reminders that we have inalienable rights that the government cannot bestow or take away, these unfortunate souls buy into the Nietzsche/Hegel philosophy that government bestows all rights. Therefore, it can, on any whim, take away any right.

That, too, is why they believe the BS that "my gun" is safe, because they will only take away "bad guns."

Until all gun owners are educated on - and believe in - the inalienable rights this country was founded on, this brainless acquiescence to the government will continue.