He Turned In His Sig/Sauer

K

Kentucky Rifle

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I'm having to deal with my share of weird people lately. Maybe I'll just "hole up" for a while. This is the latest. Friday afternoon I went to my barber for my regular, "every three weeks" haircut. I like to do it, in spite of having to travel downtown. My barber is a shooter and in the morning he is going dove hunting down in the country where we both grew up. But could I get a good haircut and some fine conversation regarding firearms? Hell no! My barber had to tell me about his first customer of the day. He was a young guy, about 35 years of age. He had a fine Sig/Sauer pistol with him that he was going to take to a police sub-station and turn in to be destroyed. He stated solemnly, "It is the right thing to do". He actually believed that this fine pistol was sure to be destroyed! Some LEO has that pistol on his nightstand or in a backup holster at this very moment, and I don't blame him one bit! My barber tried to trade the poor misguided fellow out of the pistol, but his mind was made up. The pistol was going to the police station. The barber tried logic on the guy. "What if someone breaks into your house to molest your wife and children tonight"? The man replied that the chances of that actually happening to his house were slim and he was willing to take the chance, because he was "doing the right thing".
I couldn't help wondering just who had convinced this guy that the thing to do was to turn his pistol in VOLUNTARILY.

Bah!!!

Will


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Mendacity is the system we live in.

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Good Evening Everyone-

A reasonable explanation is that the folks over at HCI and CeaseFire have photographs of him in compromising positions with common barnyard animals.

One doesn't go this wacky on his own...

~ Blue Jays ~
 
Or it may just be the only gun he has "on paper", and it's an ingeniously crafted plan to throw the antis off the track if/when confiscation comes. ;)
 
?? Better living through modern chemistry ??

Or a product of our socialistic school system.

Or both.

Sam........puking
 
If you guys know anyone that want to give away their guns, send them to me!!!! I will gladly take their gun to be "destroyed". Destroyed in my own way (i.e. stored in a safe somewhere)

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Dead [Black Ops]
 
boing he should have just bought a canoe like all the rest of us. :D

Sooner this guy takes a permanent exit off this planet the better, he sounds less than worthless.
 
Hard to figure.

Maybe he's caught up in a mass mentality--like a lemming drowning itself in the sea with the other lemmings. Or like a fanatic throwing himself in front of a juggernaut car to be crushed to death with other fanatics. Or like a German participating in a torchlight parade in the 1930s. Or like an Americans who hangs on Peter Jennings' every word and believes what he reads in The New York Times.

Maybe he's delusional and no longer in possession of his thought processes. Maybe he's a moral coward who runs from individual freedom.

Or maybe he's just one stupid little man with a mind clogged by sloppy thinking.
 
Gotta admit to having done the same thing
back in '68.
Dr. King had just been shot. It affected
me big time. I called a friend of mine who
did a radio program and asked if I could
be on her show for a few minutes. Didn't
tell her the subject.
Arrived with my unloaded .25acp piece of
junk gun in a brown paper bag and proceeded
to pull it out of the bag and tell the world
how easy it would have been to do bad things
with it. Then announced I was going straight
to the police department and turn it in to
the Chief-(I was dating his daughter at the
time).
Well, the Chief was listening to the program.
He marched down to the Mayor's office (my
Dad), and told him he wasn't going to accept
the gun. When I arrived at City Hall, my
father called me into his office and chewed
me out about my silly "grand standing".

I was adament, so the Mayor took the gun.
A few weeks later, I had second thoughts and
got my gun back. It's still a cheap piece of
junk.

This happened over thirty years ago, but it
taught me a lesson about the power of the
"knee jerk"emotional reaction. It usually
has nothing to do with reason or logic.
 
I think the guy has the right idea. All guns should be destroyed and IMHO the best and most thorough way to do that is from the inside out. Yes, brothers and sisters, the best way to render a firearm incapable of doing any further harm to society and our children is to thoroughly wear it out by frequent and extended trips to the firing range. This will also remove the huge potential hazard of those massive caches of ammunition laying around, waiting to fall into the hands of our innocent children.
So, I implore all of you. For your family, for the children, immediately take every gun you own to the firing range as soon as you can and do your part. Wear out those guns! The only true pro-gunners are the ones who leave their firearms sitting in a closet somewhere never touched! Become anti-gun NOW!!!
No, I haven't slept and , yes, I do get wierd when I don't get my beauty rest. :cool:


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Those who use arms well cultivate the Way and keep the rules.Thus they can govern in such a way as to prevail over the corrupt- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
 
WLM, your profile is saying Kentucky!!!!!

Obviously, this bozo ain't a native of a great state with an F- from HCI.
 
Are you sure the guy was not just yanking your barbers chain? If he was serious your barber should have threatened to shave his head until he turned over the gun for safe keeping. Sort of like taking the keys away from someone that has had a few to many and needs time to sober up. If I was your barber I would have said free haircuts for 5 years if you give that pistol to me.
 
Spent a couple of hours yesterday reviewing a court case. It concerned a double homicide some years back up in the mountains near here. A 23 yr old loser, 5'8", 120#, held up two girls at gunpoint. They were extremely lucky in that he let them walk away. A day later he wasn't so mellow, and killed a 40 yr old man and his 13 yr old son fishing nearby. He then robbed them--getting $40-- and took their truck. Not being a master criminal, he got caught a few days later, is now doing two consecutive life sentences.

The color photos in the case file show both shot in the back and the kid shot between the eyes.

I may use some of this material (edited) in my NRA personal protection classes. Some damn fools think the world is a warm, fuzzy place and no one would ever do bad things to them. They also forget with the speed of light.

Maybe it's true--the only cure for stupidity is death.

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Sounds like this fellow's eyes were glassy at the time ...


<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>The barber tried logic on the guy. "What if someone breaks into your house to molest your wife and children tonight"? The man replied that the chances of that actually happening to his house were slim and he was willing to take the chance, because he was "doing the right thing".[/quote]

I always find this logic the most interesting. The anti-self defense gun bigots will argue that it is unlikely you or I will need a firearm for self defense. (Generally, I'd agree with them - but, it only takes once ...) But, then they turn around and argue that everyone must give up their guns to 'stop the violence'. How can they have it both ways? If there is so little violence and threat that 'no one needs a gun', then how can it be that we have to turn in guns because of 'an epidemic of gun violence'. Fascinating.

Regards from AZ
 
Anybody else who would like to "do the right thing" please email me for my mailing address. I'll take any free guns there are. ;)
 
I am glad that fella turned his gun in . Now , where does he live ? Does he keep money around the house ? And mostly , is his wife good looking and does she take "kindly" to strangers ?
If he knew these are the kind of questions conjured up when news of his stupidity spreads maybe he will think twice about his folly .
Just a thought . If on the off chance that his house is broken into he need not shoot anyone . Just start firing through the roof and screaming . The BG('s) will haul ass and all he has is some small roof repair . Maybe (and I stress maybe) he will have a very small discharging in public beef to answer to . Better than wrongful death by some crap lawyer in the name of the BG's common law wife and 3 bastard kids .
Just my thoughts . And remember .....I've never been wrong before .<G>

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TOM
SASS AMERICAN LEGION NRA GOA
 
No, he wasn't joking, he wasn't on drugs, and he isn't stupid. Although he is doing a stupid thing. I think that he's just one of those guys who has never been touched by violence. To him, the bad guys are just people he reads about in the newspaper. A lot of people are like that. They grew up like that. I'm reminded of the two local high school seniors on their way to a ball game at a downtown school. They became lost and stopped at a Captain D's seafood joint in a bad part of town to ask for directions. They didn't know. Just two young guys who had no idea the bad guys were watching. They were abducted, put in the trunk of their car, and driven to a secluded area where they were robbed, sodomized, and shot in the backs of their heads. One of the killers was featured in those offensive Benaton (Sp?) ads. His mother and father had to drive down the street and see their son's killer staring down from a billboard. Yeah, that's right. Stop capital punishment. Like they don't deserve to die for this heinous crime. I wish we still had the electric chair.

Will

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Mendacity is the system we live in.

[This message has been edited by WLM (edited September 02, 2000).]

[This message has been edited by WLM (edited September 02, 2000).]
 
16 year old Kemher Rouge lieutenant to his tentative fire team behind a line of 'educated' unarmed countrymen in front the ditch: "We are doing the right thing."

Babyfaced infantryman turns to his parochial school classmate at an concentration camp as he turns the gas valve ending the lives of the unarmed: "We are doing the right thing."

The examples are infinite. What is obscene is to value the gift of life so little as to toss it up on the roll of the dice by voluntarily disarming. The forces of evil do not sleep.
For arguments sake, (No intention of arming a debate)let us assume the individual is a Christian.
To be so egotistical as to attempt to adopt the personnae of Christ by being a coward is offensive to both Christians and Moslems.
A GI who is willing to kill to survive can still claim God's acceptance. The man who throws his belly over a grenade to save his friends already knows God better than anyone.
It don't matter what his religion is to his buddys. They still breath. Because he humbly did "the right thing".
 
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