WhistlingJack
Regular Member
When I was still actively serving as an instructor for the NRA they constantly rammed this "It's not a weapon, its a firearm" down our throats, especially when teaching Boy Scouts.
My Firearm is a weapon, that is the purpose for which it was designed. A weapon is a tool which has been constructed with such an application as to inflict harm on living things by design.
Owning a weapon is the right of a free man, I as a free man own weaponry for the defense of my person and my liberty, and I as a free man bear the responsibility to employ the weaponry that I own only when it is in fact necessary to do so. I will not mask the nature of my weapon, the purpose for which it is designed, or my own responsibility in being able to do so by being lured into the application of more politically correct terms simply because there are people who care more about what something is called than what it is.
Political Correctness is at its best an attempt to deceive even on the most minute levels, and at worst it is inellectual cowardice.
It is also rare in fact to find someone who does not have an opinion on firearms ownership, just as you will rarely find someone who does not have an opinion on abortion. When someone has made up their mind to believe a certain thing, no amount of data, facts, or terminology will sway their opinion as they have made the choice to believe as they do. Once a person's mind is made up, only they can change their mind.
I often ponder if those who are so adverse to calling a weapon what it truly is would ever actually posses the fortitude to use it when the time came, since they cannot even bring themselves to call it by what it is. Weaponry and its use is intrinsic to our nature just as is many other things. Firearms applications which are not weaponized are still applications that hone the use of a firearms capabilities, such as sports first grew among primitive populations as a means to teach teamwork and provide for the physical maintaineance which was critical to soldiery.
TL DR Version
-I reject with naught but bile and contempt any effort to spread Political Correctness to any facet of life, including how I reference my weapon. Too many have forgotten that to own a weapon, and bear the responsibility of its ownership is an intrinsic component of living free.
My Firearm is a weapon, that is the purpose for which it was designed. A weapon is a tool which has been constructed with such an application as to inflict harm on living things by design.
Owning a weapon is the right of a free man, I as a free man own weaponry for the defense of my person and my liberty, and I as a free man bear the responsibility to employ the weaponry that I own only when it is in fact necessary to do so. I will not mask the nature of my weapon, the purpose for which it is designed, or my own responsibility in being able to do so by being lured into the application of more politically correct terms simply because there are people who care more about what something is called than what it is.
Political Correctness is at its best an attempt to deceive even on the most minute levels, and at worst it is inellectual cowardice.
It is also rare in fact to find someone who does not have an opinion on firearms ownership, just as you will rarely find someone who does not have an opinion on abortion. When someone has made up their mind to believe a certain thing, no amount of data, facts, or terminology will sway their opinion as they have made the choice to believe as they do. Once a person's mind is made up, only they can change their mind.
I often ponder if those who are so adverse to calling a weapon what it truly is would ever actually posses the fortitude to use it when the time came, since they cannot even bring themselves to call it by what it is. Weaponry and its use is intrinsic to our nature just as is many other things. Firearms applications which are not weaponized are still applications that hone the use of a firearms capabilities, such as sports first grew among primitive populations as a means to teach teamwork and provide for the physical maintaineance which was critical to soldiery.
TL DR Version
-I reject with naught but bile and contempt any effort to spread Political Correctness to any facet of life, including how I reference my weapon. Too many have forgotten that to own a weapon, and bear the responsibility of its ownership is an intrinsic component of living free.
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