Another Once Upstanding Media Outlet Proves Its Editors ignorance

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An item in the Gannett owned and rabidly anti-gun Detriot Free Press once again expounds on things of which it has no knowledge – and proves it. https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/2020/08/19/mass-shootings-size-limits-magazines-reasonable-save-lives-column/3385431001/

The Freep’s headline pretty much says it all.

Mass shootings: Limiting magazine capacity saves lives and doesn’t infringe on gun rights

And so long as an AR or AK is securely locked behind glass in a quality gun case, that is true. A sub-capacity magazine in a display piece neither does great harm, nor infringe on gun rights. It is when that Sport Utility rifle with its design capacity magazine is taken from the gun case that trouble starts.

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That same rifle that is innocuous with a sub-capacity magazine is unable to perform its design function of providing medium size game for the table, protecting its owner and his family and employees, as well as visitors, and do the other things Sport Utility rifles such as this one are intended for:

Riding behind its owner, locked in a pickup gun rack, this rifle is as “safe” as any rifle can get. You would have to possess the owners key to access it.

But when a sounder of feral hogs rooting up a farmers fields is encountered, that 30 round magazine the sport utility rifle’s 30 round magazine comes into play. 30 rounds is likely to result in surviving hogs leaving the area and stay away. 4 rounds is an open invitation for the lead pigs in a sounder of hogs to charge – and that is likely to be deadly to a farmer trying to sell enough to make a living for his family.

Then there are the “hog lookalikes,” the peccaries, often called javelina. In a group, the javelina has no “retreat mode.” Shoot one out of a 100 animal group, and you will hae the other 99 to deal with. The fact that javelina cannot climb trees has saved many a life – and the absence of trees has cost many an unwary large animal handler his life.

And then there is “the most dangerous game of all.” The apex predator on this planet, the predator that deliberately seeks out the animals that kill dangerous game such as other humans. So far this year, the presence of a sport utility rifle has stopped more than 120 criminals, and many of those who did not retreat were stopped cold. A single young man in his late teens cannot take on a gang of three toughs bent on cleaning a ranch house and burning the house and the bodies of everyone in it down with just four rounds and one in the chamber. But that is what an Oklahoma youth did with his standard capacity 30 round magazzine.

And then there are the large animal breeders. The people who raise creatures weighing up to a ton, so we can set down to a delicious slab of roast beef. That work is considered about as dangerous as working in an underground mind. The large animal breeder needs a firearm to protect himself, his family, and any visitors from this livestock. But it sometimes takes many shots to take down an enraged bull or to stop a stallion looking to dominate the heard for access to the mres. That 30 round magazine is a life saver.

But the Free Press’ editors know nothing of this. All they know is that Gannett’s policy is that guns must be confiscated, whether there is any risk they will be used to facilitate a crime or not.

And that attitude must change so Michigan can make progress toward soliving its violent crime problem.

Stranger

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