Gun Watch – by Dean Weingarten
An Oregon Episcopal church man has won a rifle at a raffle to benefit a girls softball team. He wanted very much to destroy that rifle. The Girls’ softball team and the rifle’s manufacturer, were smiling all the way to the bank. It was a win-win-win.
When Jeremy Lucas, a reverend at the Christ Church Episcopal Parish in Lake Oswego, won an AR-15 rifle in a local raffle he was overjoyed.
Not because he had any plans for hunting or target practice, but because, even though he had spent roughly $3,000 on raffle tickets, he planned to destroy the gun.
The raffle was done by a girls softball team to raise money for expenses.
From wweek.com:
An area softball team is raffling off an AR-15 rifle to raise money to compete in a California tournament later this month.
For $20 a ticket, 15 girls from Centennial, Gresham, and Milwaukie high schools are hoping that the rifle raffle earns them the $6,000 they need to represent Oregon at the West Regional Tournament in Lancaster, Calif., July 23-27.
With Lucas’ church money, the team raised just short of $10,000. Rifle raffles are very popular, and tend to be successful. There would be no reason to turn down Lucas church money. Cash is cash. A rifle is a rifle. If you buy it, they will make more!
Reverend Lucas is quoted. The quote manages to place many conceptual falsehoods in one sentence.
“Even if it’s one gun out of a million, it’s one less for someone to hurt someone else or themselves with.”
But that is conceptually false. Rifles are not irreplacable. Manufacturers have been operating at full speed for the entire span of the Obama presidency. Detroying one rifle simply means that another will be made by a manufacturer, and that manufacturer will make more profit.
Lucas is doing something else. He is engaged in a morality play, where he is the good guy and the rifle is the evil thing. It is the deodand concept from medieval Europe. It makes him feel morally superior, but to most people he simply looks foolish. At least in medieval Europe, the Church kept to money or sold the item to benefit the poor.
So, win-win-win-win. The softball team wins. The rifle manufacturer wins. Lucas is able to feel morally superior. He wins. Second Amendment supporters win as well. This sort of silly moral posturing does not play well with most Americans.
Rifles, as a matter of fact and FBI statistics, are the type of firearm least used to murder people. And this type of rifle is exactly the type that should be most protected by the Constitution, it is a perfect example of a militia rifle. As a long gun, it makes a great home defense gun. The AR15 type of rifle has become the most popular rifle in the United States.
Gun manufacturers are having a hard time keeping them on store shelves. When Lucas buys a rifle to destroy it, he insults the intelligence of a hundred million Americans. Perhaps a couple million will applaud him.
Lucas may believe that rifles are not used for anything constructive, but that is false. He is free to practice his religion and make his moral statements, because men with rifles protect him.
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“Reverend Lucas is quoted. The quote manages to place many conceptual falsehoods in one sentence.
“Even if it’s one gun out of a million, it’s one less for someone to hurt someone else or themselves with.”
Stupidity abounds!
Even here in Oregon, unfortunately (but FAR less than in Commiefornia, thankfully!)
He might be doing someone a favor by destroying it. A quality AR-15 goes for more than $700 these days.
Yes, all ARs look pretty much the same. Their parts are mostly interchangeable. And almost any of them will hold up for years if they’re subjected only to slow, leisurely fire at the range. Manufacturers know this is how most Americans use their guns, which is why they cut corners to bring down prices. But what happens when one of those rifles is pushed to its limit with lots of rapid fire?
Instructors at high-throughput training schools see thousands of rifles go through their classes, and they generally agree: the brands that hold up to serious use are Bravo Company, Colt, Daniel Defense, LMT, Noveske, and certain custom manufacturers.
The good news is that you don’t need to buy a fancy $2000 boutique gun. For a dependable, hard-use gun made for fighting, expect to pay at least $900-$1100. If you practice shooting the rifle as much as you should, the cost of ammo will quickly dwarf the extra couple hundred dollars you paid to get a weapon you can depend on.
Maybe he’d rather we went back to fighting with bows and arrows and spears and swords…..I really don’t know that there were any fewer deaths though. He should put his efforts into protesting nukes (not that that would do him any good either).
Stupidity has no limits these days: Historians Reveal Truth About Michelle’s Claim That Slaves Built the White House
For starters, the White House wasn’t built primarily by slaves. Yes, slaves helped build it, but it was also built by white immigrants and local workers. So the Obamas also wake up in a house built by white people … but I guess that isn’t very important to them.
In addition to that, there was some evidence that the government actually paid the “slaves” who worked on the house — which by most definitions of slavery wouldn’t make them slaves. Maybe Michelle should open up a book before she speaks next time.
http://conservativetribune.com/michelles-claim-slaves/
ANOTHER AMERICAN PUSSY THAT NEEDS THAT MOUTH MASHED…. AS MY DEAR DEPARTED MOM WOULD SAY……………………..
This man is too stupid to hang. A mentally retarded person is smarter than he is.