Well, not to get too off thread. I served almost eight years as an infantry officer, two actions Grenada and Panama and eight years active as a CHP, retired with tweleve and a half years post 18 surgeries that was necessitated by a drunk illegal with two prior drunk driving convictions.
I know legal gun ownership with 400,000,000 firearms in hands like mine aren't the problem. I own weapons from about 1700-current. I got put through the ringer for a Federal license to own an original FBI Thompson Sub Machine Gun. They harm no one. I love to target shoot, but I don't even hunt. I am a historian.
It's pathetic when people are so weak-minded that they blame a tool for the criminal actions of humans. Humans will always find a tool to do their bidding if that is their intent. Classifying a murder as hate crime is ridiculous. People don't kill you because they like you and it doesn't change the crime. It's still murder.
This country makes me sick and it spits right in my face for paying my debt of gratitude for having opportunities like no other nation has.
I saw socialism first hand, and these liberal idiots and longing for it. I did what I did for nothing.
-Keith
Well I agree with you that guns are not the problem. Just like a high performance car, responsible use of them is expected.
I understand how being catagorized is offensive. I get catgorized all the time, then rated within that catagory. I don't care for that etither.
My point was, I was reaching out to you since I know you are an enthusiast of both firearms and high performance cars, that even though there is no requirement for knowledge of the use of the product required, it would be an awfully good idea to have more than just a little.
Just like firearms, there are basic camshafts and then there are highly specialized ones and probably everything in between.
Just like firearms, there are circles with camshafts where one can learn much from others highly experienced with them. From that comes understanding and from that comes respect.
The technology involved in both comes to be appreciated and it helps one understand both the tools limitations and the personal human limitations.
Ignorance creates the fear. Knowledge creates the respect.
I got over my ignorance of firearms at around 2 and am still working at getting over my ignorance of camshafts although I haven't needed an M15 or Laws rockets in over 40 years, I still need camshafts on occasion? I don't need my K-bar for camping anymore either. All former tools now considered obsolete (by me) and you know what? I don't miss them either?
Just my personal perspective and my way of reaching out.