Ravenwood - 02/06/04 06:45 AM
Gun grabbers are setting their sights on paint ball guns. The hapless media is too quick to be willing accomplices. Check out this passage from the Christian Science Monitor.
To be sure, boys who once would have thought nothing about pelting each other with BB guns are today picking up the kid version of a .50 caliber Howitzer: the 320-feet-per-second paintball gun, or "marker." But as injuries rise, a debate over the limits on the games boys play - and how badly they should be punished for capers gone awry - is also heating up.For those of you that don't know anything about guns, a Howitzer is a piece of artillery. The term ".50 caliber Howitzer" is akin to calling a television set a "13-inch High Definition Big Screen". It serves only to show the ignorance of the media.
While a Howitzer may have a .50 caliber gun mounted on top of it, it is by no means a .50 caliber firearm, nor is it used for drive by shootings. I hate to be a stickler, but this is just another example of using exaggerations and out-right lies to further your anti-gun agenda.
Don't worry though, not being one to limit themselves to just one anti-gun buzz word, they also got their Wild West/Dodge City cliches in.
For officials in Garner, the key is to discourage turning cul-de-sacs into OK Corrals.Augh. For the record, the OK Corral is where local law enforcement gunned down members of the "Cowboys" gang while trying to enforce their gun ban.
I don't recall boys pelting each other with BB guns.
Posted by: Ron Hardin at February 6, 2004 7:17 AMThat's because you didn't live in MY neighborhood, Ron.
Posted by: Ralph Gizzip at February 6, 2004 12:23 PMDoes reality ever enter into the arguments of the anti-gun Nazis?
Posted by: Michael at February 6, 2004 12:54 PMI say let the kids be. After getting hit a few times even 12 year olds get the message.
"No, I don't wanna do this any more."
"Why not?"
"It hurts!" KA-WHACK!!!
"Why'd ya do that for?!"
"Cuz you're stupid."
(Get the feeling I'm still a little too close to my early adolescence?:))
Posted by: Alan Kellogg at February 8, 2004 7:59 AMlessee...
yup, got two eyes.
yup, got two ears.
yup, got all four limbs.
yup, got some scars.
and finally,
yup, been shot at and done shooting at with both BB guns AND paintball guns.
Posted by: Jim S at February 11, 2004 8:42 AMBut for a decimal point the ".50 caliber Howitzer" remark could be valid. On artillery pieces caliber means the ratio of bore to barrel length. I believe the Iowa class battleships are 16" fifty caliber guns, which means a barrel of 16x50 or 800 inch length.
In my home town the local lads used shotguns for playing cowboy; when you were pinned behind a log you simply had sense enough NOT to raise your head when you knew that a 12 gauge shotgun was aimed at your location. Nobody ever got hurt. In contrast, I am afraid that "the kids nowadays" don't have ebnough sense to be trusted with a .50 bore painball gun.
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