[August 2, 2024] I grew up with guns of all kinds but only used a single-shot shotgun to hunt. In the traditional sense of the term, I wouldn’t say I was a hunter because I did not hunt to survive. But I hunted to supplement the food on our table. My Dad used shotguns with manual pumps, each with five rounds; he would have had greater capacity magazine tubes if they had been legal.
I used the single-shot shotgun because my Dad taught me to aim carefully and not waste ammunition. Ammunition was not cheap. We lived in a rural culture of the Deep South where hunting was ingrained so thoroughly in the culture that it was expected to bring your shotgun to school so you could go hunting right after class. And no one thought anything of it.
We took our guns seriously, especially in terms of safety. My Dad was a hardcore safety guy, and perhaps that was because his great-grandfather had died of a gunshot wound to the head. I’m unsure if that was the reason, but he instilled a tremendous respect for the damage a gun could cause if used improperly or unethically. Guns were just part of our lifestyle.
The right to bear arms, as addressed in the U.S. Second Amendment to the Constitution, is essential for a free America. I strongly support all our Constitutional Amendments, but the first ten, the Bill of Rights, are genuinely the most important and philosophically tell a story of a Great America. These “rights,” with serious responsibilities, symbolize a free society.
Like so many of my friends from the Deep South, I don’t believe growing up, and I don’t believe now that only the military and police should own guns. This goes far beyond the origins of the Second Amendment, a fact used by those opposing that Amendment. Unfortunately, there are those on the political Left who want to pick and choose which parts of our Constitution they want to follow and will use the legal system to insert themselves into those parts of our history they don’t – at the moment – like.
The Second Amendment provides a vital right to Americans. The individual should be allowed and encouraged to own guns, to know how to correctly and safely use them, and to be a moral actor when using guns. Along with the right to own and use guns, it must, at the same time, be connected to the responsibility of ownership.
Today, the Second Amendment is under attack by political Leftists and well-meaning but ignorant Conservatives. This attempt to ban guns should not be happening. Freedom is measured by the right to bear arms.
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Sir, you nailed it. The 2nd Amendment is a measure of freedom, the more it is restricted, the less freedom we all have.
“The right to bear arms, as addressed in the U.S. Second Amendment to the Constitution, is essential for a free America. I strongly support all our Constitutional Amendments, but the first ten, the Bill of Rights, are genuinely the most important and philosophically tell a story of a Great America. These “rights,” with serious responsibilities, symbolize a free society.” – Gen. Doug Satterfield. He is all over it with this quote. Thank you, Gen. S for your service to our nation.
Let us not lose one of the main points that Gen. Satterfield is making here. He had a single-shot shotgun because his dad wanted him to learn to aim properly. Aiming is one of the key aspects of a good life. You have to know what you are aiming for. But too many men (and women) today have zero idea what they want or where they could even go. So by being aimless they are hurting themselves and their families. This is where the West has taken us.
Yes, indeed. 🙏
If you are afraid of guns, then you are afraid of the world. Get over it. Learn to live. You cannot make the world perfectly safe and if you did, many real men would start to break things just to make the world less safe. Men are built to protect their families from harm and they will do it.
Only weak men don’t like guns and the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution. And by weak, I mean ‘sissy’ men.
Jose, I agree and there is no shortage of weak men in America and the West. One great example here in America is Joe Biden, the president. He is very weak. He is pushed around and told what to do by his Doktor wife Jill and by his drug-addict son Hunter. The man is the most powerful man in the world but he is controlled by women and pussy men. That goes to show you that men must stand up and learn to do what is right and not be lead around by the nose like Joe Biden. I see other weak men in politics all the time. They can talk a big talk but they can never walk the walk. That is why I love Donald Trump and JD Vance. Both self-made men and they are strong and real men. TRUMP 2024.
Yes, weakness destroys. I do think that Gen. Satterfield has written about this fact for some time now. 👍
YES! and here is one of my favorites “Cowboys and Indians: a Boy’s Game of Choice”
https://www.theleadermaker.com/cowboys-and-indians-a-boys-game-of-choice/
My brother Philip and I were a disagreeable duo, always creating chaos in the family household. Our mom would send us outside when things started to get out of hand. Our favorite game to play was Cowboys and Indians. Neighborhood friends would all get dressed up in our cowboy outfits, including a cowboy hat, boots, and toy six-shooter. In the thumbnail, you can see my brother in his outfit.
It was a game of choice. And we enjoyed it. No one I know was ever an “Indian” because, well, because Indians were “savages,” and no one wanted to be one. So we had make-believe Indians with whom we would have a shoot-out and always win the gun battle. It was our game, so we always won. And we played it at school too.
“My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I ride a Mercedes, my son rides a Land Rover, and my grandson is going to ride a Land Rover…but my great-grandson is going to have to ride a camel again. Why is that? – Sheik Rashid, founder of Dubai
They can take my guns when the pry them from my cold, dead hands.
Yep, I had one too growing up. My father and I hunted with his brothers and so it was a man thing to hunt. We made the best of it hunting throughout the late summer and fall. We now look back on those times as some of the best times of our lives. But we should also defend our right to hunt, a tradition in families but also part of the American culture. If you are a whiny, spoiled, priviledged pinko brat and don’t like guns, tough on you. Go play in your mommie’s basement because you are not a real man.
Yeah nailed it there GIbbie. Say, if you don’t like something, don’t try to take it away from others. We have a name for that …. narcissist (at the individual level) and tyrant (at the cultural level). Narcissism doesn’t scale up well.
Hi guys, I own several shotguns and pistols. Some were given to me by my father and no Democrat is going to take them from me.