The Truth About Guns

“I never intend to own a gun. I won’t have a gun in my house. Please don’t come over and rob me now.” – Nashville Councilwoman Megan Barry quoted in Left-leaning Megan Barry takes gun safety class [at tennesean.com]

“We were not trying to set a record,” Tim Lesser, Sharp Rifle Company’s VP of Sales and Marketing pronounced in a presser. “We just told the testers to shoot a modern sporting rifle till it jammed. After 7500 jam free rounds and a fried barrel, we felt good about the Relia-Bolt’s reliability.” Which is just as well, really, given the name of their product. To accomplish this jam-free mission, which Guinness has yet to adjudicate, the bolt features an innovative rounded and tapered lug design, S7 steel and NP3 coating. NOW how much would you pay? Well DON’T ANSWER. Because the Relia-Bolt has a lifetime warranty. NOW how much would you pay? $45? $55? How about $149.99? Sharps sure hopes so.

For this encounter (starts at 49:50), Mr. Fineman of the Gun Victims Action Council promised not to talk over me. Needless to say he did. Also needless to say, Mr. Fineman is divorced from reality. In fact, he wants nothing to do with it. When confronted by facts – such as scientific studies quantifying defensive gun uses – Fineman takes the same tack my second ex does: change the subject. In short, there’s no talking to these people. But it’s worth doing when someone else is listening, in case there’s an open mind available. IMHO.