I really want to ask Bill D how he knows so much about hunting and those things necessary and sufficient to accomplish the same, in particular why a semi- automatic loader is not a requirement for, say, taking upland game. Ahhh, but that gets tedious.
A more interesting point a couple of you have brought up is Hollywood's incredible love affair with the gun! In this hotbed of liberal activism and idealism hardly a movie gets made that doesn't have murders by the dozen, explosive violences, explosives, chainsaw massacres, torture, rape, rape and more rape. And who do we see portraying these these gun wielding role models? Why, Sean Penn, Alec Baldwin, Sigourne (?) Weaver, Matt Damon, etc. etc. You know, the Anti- gun crowd. What hypocrisy! What gall!
They make their livelihoods by the sword and they by and large tell the common man he shouldn't have a gun? And not only that but many of them pack heat for real. Why? Because THEY ARE SPECIAL and you and I aren't! What crap! Are their lives so much more important than yours or mine?
These people are closet aristocrats who believe they are better than everyone else. They don't believe you have what it takes to think for yourself or to know what is good for you. They want to think for you. I find this a distinguishing characteristic among most Democrats I've heard. That's the whole idea behind Big Government, entitlements, nave-to-the-grave health care ("large stitches, he's just an enlisted man"), repressive gun laws and the rubber room mentality toward the peons.
Control the ignorant masses. What? They're NOT ignorant? Well, we'd better fix that. Get control of the teachers through their unions. Stop teaching history, ethics, patriotism, etc. Let's just make them feel good about themselves. Pass them along. No one flunks. Free Rittalin for the kids who can't stand boredom. Soma coma!
Well, I could go on but I'm sure most of you would rather I didn't. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. But, because you say "We see" your sin remains and you will die in your sins".