I am a shooter. I like to shoot. There is nothing more important to me than my right to shoot my guns.
Shooting while I drink is very relaxing for me. While I'm drinking and socializing with friends at the bar, I like to take out one of my guns and shoot things. I enjoy just sitting and shooting my guns in a restaurant after a good meal. I enjoy shooting my guns while I'm shopping. I enjoy shooting my guns in buses, trains and planes.
If I want to play a little Russian roulette, that's my business. If I'm only critically injured and can't afford extended care, society has the responsibility to provide me with proper health care and must take care of me.
If some other men or women and children get seriously injured or killed by my shooting, so what? I have a right to shoot anytime and anywhere I want.
And, if I die, my wife and family can sue the gun and bullet manufacturers, the business owners, the city, the state and the federal government, because it's all their fault.
Surely, you don't think that I am personally responsible for my actions? That I should be held accountable?
I bear no more personal responsibility and am no more accountable than any smoker whose smoking may be personally fatal and whose exhaled secondhand smoke seriously injures or causes the death of innocent men, women and children.
Get it? It's an analogy. Look it up.
I hope and pray that all of you city council members and state and federal legislators understand.
R. TULLOS 'DAN' HANCHEY
Ridgeland
First of all, this assclown should've found a way to use the words "smoking gun." His failure to do so is an atrocity in and of itself. But, as with most of the anti-property-rights hysterics, he has totally missed the point. Smokers do not have a right to smoke wherever they please. Business owners have the right to decide if they want to allow smoking or, for that matter, shooting, in their private establishments. People have the right to decide whether or not they wish to patronize said establishments and be exposed to second-hand smoke, or the slightly less deadly bullets. As to suing other people for one's own actions, no state or smoker had the right to do that and the windfall settlements were a gross miscarriage of justice. And people should take care of their own healthcare needs and not use government to coerce others into paying for their various health problems. Socialism is the problem there, not smokers or shooters.
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