Dick Metcalf now supports gun Control

[Swamp Yankee]

An editorial from Decembers issue of Guns & Ammo.
http://freepatriot.org/2013/11/03/guns-and-ammo-editor-supports-gun-control-in-editorial-feature-for-december-issue/

Mike Mc

[JLawson]

For those who don't subscribe or haven't received that issue yet:

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Lets-Talk-Limits-by-Dick-Metcalf-of-Guns-Ammo-December-2013.pdf

[alfsauve]

He definitely doesn't get it.


I wonder what he thinks of a "REGULATED" clock?

[gunman42782]

I can't even believe this.  I am glad I don't subscribe any longer to Guns and Ammo, and you can be damn sure I never will.  I have watched the TV show, but think that is over too.

[PegLeg45]

Never liked G&A anyway..... particularly because of metcalf........ acted like a Fudd anyway.....

I wonder if he knows Jim Zumbo?

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[billt]

This total ass hat just committed career suicide. I've been a subscriber to Guns & Ammo for over 4 decades. I'll never give them another penny of my money. This can be laid right at their doorstep. He wrote it, but G&A PRINTED IT. They should have been smarter. They weren't. This guy can join Jim Zumbo for the "Stupid Gun Writers Award". I was always under the belief that people grew wiser with age. These 2 idiots have proven otherwise.

[santahog]

I began to notice Cam Edwards getting a little floppy surrounding the idea of trying to negotiate with the left, just in general. Somebody called him "Squish" and he spent a few days being resentful about it, but he also used the time to talk about how "things get done" in Washington"..
(I think about "the way things get done in Washington" as the problem, myself..)
I hadn't accused him of going floppy on politics, but I'd thought it for a few weeks prior to that. It just so happened that I had taken the time to address something he'd said related to politics, stemming from a comment he'd said while talking to Tabitha Hale (from RARE.com), and we spent what seemed like a couple of hours going back and forth on air via email, getting used as an example of some immoderate, unyielding conservative, who just doesn't understand how politics work. I don't recall precisely what I talked about, now.
I don't personally see anywhere that capitulating with leftists gets "us" anywhere that we say we're trying to get to.
I think this mindset creeps in when folks just get tired of fighting.. Or maybe something hormonal happens at 50 years old or something. I don't know. I know Cam seemed to me to be trying to come across as being "above the fray". He says the right things, mostly, (maybe a little too accepting of the NFA for me at times) but I think he thinks we can negotiate ourselves back to a Constitutional position somehow.
IMO, as long as the left is committed to it's beliefs and tactics, you can't "negotiate" your way to a conservative position. It takes a committed majority, or a weapon and/or a jail cell, (and a press blackout)..

I've mentioned this before, and it has nothing to do with Cam, but we need to be looking very hard at each the members of the Board of the NRA, individually.. I have a hard time believing that Grover Norquist is the only "moderate" on the Board. If we lose NRA, there's really nothing else there to fall back onto with the kind of juice that it takes to prevail..
I'm nominating Allen West for election to the Board next time, and probably "Colion Noir". I've never put anybody up for election before, but my understanding of the process seems pretty straight forward. Any assistance in helping get these guys on the Ballot would be helpful..

[MikeBjerum]

I learned some things about Metcalf a couple years ago that were very disturbing, and nothing he does since shocks me.  He has never been my favorite media person, and he just slid down the few rungs he had left.

All I can do is point out that this is the current status of the so called conservative.  Rinos and experts who have fallen victim to the Brady Campaign's propaganda.  They have equated guns with cars, and intermixed rights and privileges.

[ExurbanKevin]

Trying to strike a balance here, so be patient.

Are some limitations needed on a natural right (any natural right) in order to keep a society together? Of course. Want to exercise your natural rights without society's regulations imposing restrictions? Get an axe and some corn meal and build yourself a cabin near Walden Pond.

However,

Do we need more regulations ton the natural right to keep and bear arms needed besides that which have already been imposed on us?

Hell. No.

There's the difference.

Yes, I think there are some regulations that go along with keeping and bearing arms, but I don't think we need any new ones.

We can have that 'conversation' about gun control that the gun-grabbers want. I'll let them start by talking all the times gun rights have been expanded in the past 100 years, and then I'll recount all the times our rights have been taken away.

Who do you think will do all the talking?

Let's get back the rights we've lost over the last 200 years first. After that, with the benefit of hindsight, we can talk about which regulations work and don't work.

I'm guessing most (if not all of them) will fall under the "don't work" category...

[MikeBjerum]

Kevin,

We have the only two regulations we need on the Second Amendment, and they apply to all Amendments:

1.  You must be a law abiding citizen to enjoy the protection the Constitution provides;

2.  You may not infringe on the rights of others in exercising your rights, and vice versa.

Questions?