If you have a lot guys shooting them, I suppose single shot rifles are fine

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AppleRich Farms offered up this enlightening link of VA House Delegate Nick Freitas who is sure to become a super star.

Today’s offering to the JG gun debate.

 

Bravo to Donald L. Clark Jr. for winning the Journal Gazette’s virtue signaler award of the day on gun control.  My goodness if it was good enough for our forefathers, well then by golly it’s good enough for Clark, because when it comes to gun control, he’s is just better than us.

One shot at time?  I guess that’s why infantry tactics of the day required that soldiers line up shoulder to shoulder three deep.  Each line firing a volley and then moving to the rear allowing the next ranks to fire while the first rank reloaded. 

The weapons may have been single shot, but the military tactic of the day was to achieve a sustained accurate rate of fire on the enemy.  The same is true today.

Our forefathers used single shot weapons because that is what was widely available at the time.  If Clark or anyone else thinks that the founders would not have embraced multi shot or semiautomatic weapons were they available, they are nuts. 

Here’s the thing.  I do not care how Clark chooses to defend himself.  If having single shot weapon is good enough for him, fine.  If having no gun is good enough for him, fine.  If he wants to put one of those oh so effective “gun free zone” signs in his front yard warning thieves and criminal that they must disarm before entering, I’m okay with that.

Mr. Clark can disarm himself in any manner he chooses.  What he and others cannot do is disarm me, not without a fight.

Oh and just for the record, since 1787 the Second Amendment STILL does not have a single word in it about hunting.   

Good enough for them

When our forefathers wrote the Second Amendment, there were no semiautomatic or automatic weapons. It was written with the understanding of one shot per weapon because that's all they had.

I'm not against the Second Amendment. From the time I started hunting at age 13 to my current age of 68, I always used a weapon that shot one shot at a time. Our forefathers only had one shot per weapon; they did not starve and won the Revolution. As a Vietnam vet, I have seen what semiautomatic weapons can do and don't want to see it again.

Donald L. Clark Jr.

Fort Wayne