http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...rotesters.html
I've actually heard that argument about a dozen times.
As a taxpayer, “I'm funding this (gunshow),” protester Maddie Gavel-Briggs told show-goer Vardan Ambartsumyan. “Why don't you join the military if you want to play with guns?”
I know all of you know it's total crap, but for some reason that 'argument' bugs me more than any other 'anti gun' remark. Don't know why. Perhaps because it is patently absurd on it's face. Perhaps because it is a DOUBLE INSULT, since I (like many other members of Gunsnet) have served and thus find such a comment indicative of complete ignorance of how our military works (we don't personally OWN anything that Uncle Sam issues us. Tank drivers don't own their tanks, and we return our small arms to the armory, pilots don't OWN their aircraft, etc. etc.) To imply that active duty military 'play' with their guns, implies some sort of mental instability as if all the military are a bunch of psychopaths who 'play war'. Anyway Only a hippie liberal moron would make such a stupid comment.
Just venting.
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