If this woman is still in Congress in 2022, I will lose all hope for our country, and certainly all respect for the people of that congressional district. I’m from Colorado. I was born in Denver and went to college at the University of Colorado at Boulder and at one point I shared a house in Table Mesa and shopped at King Soopers. This happened on my old stomping grounds.

And it happens a lot there, unfortunately. One of my dearest friends lost his 17-year-old niece in the Chuck E. Cheese mass shooting. We haven’t spoken of it in years, although I may write him today, and ask how his sister is doing. Losing her daughter that way rendered her a shell of a woman, as one can well understand, and another one of these mass shootings is a trigger event as you can imagine.

But not for Lauren Boebert, evidently. She went on Twitter and sent the usual pro forma condolences and then a few hours later, a pro-gun campaign fundraising email went out.

This is spot on. Lauren Boebert likes to dress up with her guns, her Glock in her holster. To some men, a holster on a woman looks like a leather garter and oh man, isn’t that hot? And hey, you want to dress that way around the house, fine, but to try to get through the metal detector in Congress carrying a piece? No. This is sheer madness.

And Boebert is just like Trump, make no mistake. This is the show biz path to politics, and she’s doing it to make money. She dyed her hair brown and put on glasses to do a Sarah Palin routine. She’s cosplaying a political figure and being the pin up girl for the NRA at the same time. That is her formula and her strategy to win.

Lauren Boebert is not part of the solution, she’s part of the problem. She needs to go.

 

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  2. So she thinks that passessing firearms is a ‘sacred right’

    Would someone please tell me – what the heck is ‘sacred’ about having an arsenal of weapons?

  3. The Founding Fathers–and most of their fellow countrymen of that era–would laugh at the stupidity of today’s ammosexual gun nuts and probably wonder what makes these people so scared that they need absurdly powerful weapons when the folks from the late 18th century had to make do with rifles and muskets that needed to be reloaded after EVERY SINGLE SHOT. Take your weapon, pack some powder, load your bullet, take aim at your target, then fire. Then, take your weapon, pack some more powder, load your fresh bullet, take aim at your new target, then fire again. Repeat as often as necessary until you were out of targets or out of powder and/or bullets. None of this “pop a clip (of 10 or more bullets) into weapon, aim, fire repeatedly till your clip’s empty, then drop empty clip, replace with fresh clip, repeat” business. (Someone using a musket in a battlefield situation was generally expected to fire off 3 rounds in a minute. Rifles, however, were more common on the frontier. Muskets were made for “mass killing” while rifles were designed for definite targets. During the Revolution, most of the American forces had rifles that they’d brought from home and they generally took advantage of their “sniper-style” warfare–American troops would fight from behind trees while the British would fight in a linear formation in the open–to allow them the time to load their rifles and aim at their targets.)

      • Most muskets were not rifled. Rifles were rifled, that’s what made them rifles. The “Brown Bess” used by the Brits was a smooth-bore .75 musket, and the shooter was lucky to hit a target at 80 yards. Many Revolutionaries had Kentucky rifles, and could hit a squirrel at 300 yards, but loading was slow. Many others used muskets in the European warfare style.
        Guns have been rifled in the modern sense at least since the 1600’s,but the ammunition was always a ball with a patch around it. That was constant until the Minie ball in the early 1800’s, and Colt’s revolver.

  4. .22s for small game, rifles and shotguns for bird and deer, okay. Semi-auto military type weapons, whether long guns or hand guns, HELL NO! Their only purpose is to kill people quickly – that’s not protection or self-defense, that’s war.

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    • Semi-auto, AKA auto loading, hasn’t been military grade since before World War 1. Full-auto, AKA machine guns, is military. Although I believe all full-auto military firearms are switchable fire. Of course, machine guns are also popular with folks who make their living on the wrong side of the law.
      There’s nothing particularly amazing about an auto loading firearm. An auto loading pistol won’t shoot any faster than a revolver. It’ll hold more in the magazine (it’s not a clip!), but a revolver speed-loader is just as fast as changing magazines. If you’ve ever seen an experienced shooter with a lever-action rifle, they’re damn near as fast as an auto loader. But if you want to HIT your target, speed isn’t really the point, is it? And there are auto loading shotguns, too. Kinda useful when the flock is going overhead, I’d think.

  5. Joseph, I have to agree, the AR15 is one of the guns that resembles the military version …
    With its firepower, even in the single pull trigger mode, and the little diameter bullet it uses, the large case of powder behind that bullet can tear a human target to pieces, the exit hole is much larger than the entrance …

    Any hit on a human is almost always fatal, loss of blood, exploded joints and limbs, all leading to fatal shock in minutes …

    I’m always curious where these gun owners can fire these weapons … shooting one in public would necessarily create an armed escort to jail, it is an aggressive weapon, used for self defense would be difficult at best, unless they were being attacked from 50-100 yards away with similar weapons …

    You could shoot it in a qualified range with proper bullet traps, but what’s the joy in that? A few shots and the light weight weapon with high power shots would probably begin to tire your body, SO, lets take the beasts outside and blow things up, everything from gallon jugs of water to old junk cars with holes through their doors and windows … where would this safe plinking area be? Out in the desert or in an alley behind your homes …?

    The dangers of such power exceeds on many levels the claimed needs for protection … self protection falls on a smaller level of arms — handguns and shotguns either of which could be deadly used in an aggressive way, but at shorter distances, Columbine was an example of that, education, family values are seemingly left off the table at the homes of these Q’s … we all the the right to live and prosper in the United States, it’s time to put these lizards away …

    • The AR 15 is the civilian version of the M 16, and is semi-auto ONLY. It has ONLY “single pull trigger mode”, as opposed to the M 16, which has switchable fire. It’s .223 cartridge is, among rifle cartridges, a low/medium power cartridge. This was one of the things the Grunts in ‘Nam complained about when the M 16 replaced the .308 M 14. The M 16 caused some horrific wounds in Viet Nam, and those were later found out to be caused by a combination of the bullet’s construction and velocity. So it was the ammunition, not the rifle.
      Everyone freaks about AR 15’s, but they’re not that big a deal. They’re NOT assault rifles, even though they look like it, and they don’t do most mass shootings. Yes, they show up in a number, but that’s because they’re the single most popular rifle in the US. Look up car accidents in Nevada. I’ll bet Ford pickups are way over represented. Because they’re dangerous? No, ‘cuz every third person in Nevada has one.
      Just for spits and giggles, go on Google Images and look up Mini 14 Ranch Rifle. It uses the same .223 ammo, has the same rate of fire and muzzle velocity as an AR 15. But nobody’s afraid of them ‘cuz they’re not black and military and tech and scary looking. But it’s essentially the same rifle. Of course you’ll never see any of the ammosexuals with one taking a selfie in their empty plate carrier. Or with a DeWalt or Skil for that matter. 😉

      • are you the official gun troll for this site? I don’t see how any of the information you have provided makes me feel any safer about any of these weapons.

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