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After decades of experience
shooting and customizing guns so they can withstand the rigors of Fast
Draw and other competitive shooting sports like CAS, Bob Munden has a lot to say.
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TOPIC:
2008 U.S. Presidential Election
January, 2009
01/12/09 -
UPDATE
I think this country has elected a good man in
Barack Obama and I wish him and the rest of us well. Be sure to pay very
close attention to not only what the new administration and Congress
does when it comes to 2nd Amendment rights, but to your local
governments as well. Watch out for absurd new rules, outrageous taxes on
ammunition, etc.
-- Bob Munden
09/07/08
Bob Munden:
I’m extremely busy getting out gun work, and the production crew will be
here this month to do taping for next season’s
Shooting USA:
Impossible Shots on the Outdoor
Channel. However, I just have to take a moment to weigh in on the
upcoming presidential election.
Listen up – Barack Obama seems like an intelligent guy, but he has spent
lots of time and energy trying to ban guns. I don’t care if the governor
of my state, Montana, thinks otherwise; Barack Obama’s record clearly
shows that he is all about banning guns one way or another.
What good is a gun for protection if it has to be torn apart, locked up
or stored separately from the ammunition? THAT is protecting the
Constitution and my individual right to protect my family and myself? No
way.
We don’t live in a society that has police in every home or on every
block, and I wouldn’t want to live in such a country. Police can’t be
everywhere at once, so it is up to individuals to get training and be
able to defend themselves. You say we don’t need guns to defend
ourselves? Then why do police carry them?
The more that elements of our country move to ban firearms in the name
of decreasing crime, the more vulnerable Americans will become.
Criminals will always have weapons no matter what, and they LOVE gun
control. It makes their job so much easier. Leaders of countries angry
with the U.S. love gun control too, because then our citizens couldn’t
protect our nation from invasion. You say that doesn’t happen these
days? Have you watched world news lately? Our country wasn’t designed to
be like other countries. The United States was meant to be different. We
were meant to be free.
Guns, like cars, knives, baseball bats, slingshots, lawn darts,
umbrellas, rocks and just about anything else can be used as lethal
weapons. It is impossible to eliminate access to weapons. If you ban one
thing, the bad guys will just get it illegally or use something else.
This year, a surge in the number of stabbings in Britain, a great number
of which were done with basic kitchen knives, has the authorities
battling “knife crimes,” which includes prosecuting people with knives
on them that are longer than 3 inches. Just think about how many more
people the police are searching and patting down? Remind you of the days
of Hitler’s S.S.? Brother, it does me.
Gun crimes, knife crimes, and baseball-bat crimes – they’re all the
same. Innocent people getting killed is upsetting for everyone, but in
my opinion, the focus should be not on what people are using to kill
other people, but on WHY they are killing other people.
Instead of focusing on weapons and attempting to disarm innocent
civilians that include the millions of gun owners who have guns for
protection and/or who participate in the shooting sports from Olympic
trap shooting, to defense training to Cowboy Action Shooting, and
hunting for healthy meat that’s not pumped full of chemicals, why don’t
we, as a culture, turn our attention instead to communicating with our
kids, to teaching them about safety, to showing them right from wrong –
to supporting parents. I’d like to see more opportunities for kids to
grow up knowing that being a good person is actually pretty cool. How do
we go about making that happen? I could support spending money on those
efforts. Attempting to take guns, then knives, then the next weapon of
choice away isn’t going to solve the problem of violence. People need to
solve the problem of violence. Laws aren’t going to do it, and
historically, unarmed citizens never win, especially when the wrong
people are in power or during times of war.
People who are willing to lead and protect the rights that our founding
fathers laid out on paper have my respect. With that in mind, know this:
Barack Obama is not telling the truth when he talks about his support of
the 2nd amendment and “reasonable gun laws.” He says he wants to ban
AK-47s, but doesn’t mention that the wording of such a bill will outlaw
many, many other types of guns too. He won’t take your gun away? Don’t
believe it. If you look at his voting record, there is no doubt about
his intentions. Both of the Clintons are anti-gun too, and former
President Clinton actually once said, "The constitution is a radical
document. It is the job of government to reign in people's rights." Are
you kidding me? The citizens, not the government, run this radical
country, which was purposely designed to be radical (different and free)
compared to the rest of the world. John McCain isn’t the best friend of
the 2nd amendment either, although he seems more inclined to change his
mind on issues when the people and a study of history clearly correct
him. Yes, we want the country to go in a better direction, but our
freedoms must always be preserved. Always.
–
Bob Munden
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