Just came back from visiting my brother-in-law. He is a retired Army Sergeant Major. He grew up here in Carroll County, just a few hills over from where I was raised. He has hunted and fished all of his life. He works on a large farm now in his retirement from the Army. He's a fairly macho guy and very action oriented. He was relating how he recently killed a ground hog by stomping it to death. He spied it and knew he could beat it to the hole in the ground where the ground hog lived.

Those for gun control are labelled "gun-grabbers" in his book. He believes that the government wants registration so it "will know where all the guns are." Registration is just a primliminary step towards gun confiscation. Realize, now, that several times people in these gun threads have said they wish there were no guns. Confiscation is the only way that will ever occur. So perhaps this is not a paranoid belief. My brother-in-law doesn't suspect this will happen in his lifetime, but perhaps in his children's life time.

He thinks government is in a state of ruin on the national level, so he does not trust his government.

I just wanted those who wondered to know some of how the anti-gun-control people think. I don't think it is irrational, just a different interpretation of what the facts mean.

Big RiB