Friday, August 17, 2018

And now it gets difficult for the Game Masters.

The left has been mobilizing its corporate constituents, pushing them into making big public statements about gun control and then requiring them to back it up with what are essentially economic sanctions against the gun owning right.  Earlier this year they pushed Dick's sporting goods into eliminating sales of "assault" style rifles.  Wal-Mart responded with raising the minimum age required to purchase ammo to 21.  Folks, by the time I was 17 I was a crack shot with my Ruger 10-22 rifle using iron sights.  At that age the hand-eye coordination was very quick to learn and very accurate in practice.  I could hit a quarter from 75 yards 3 times out of 4 from the bench.  And standing free arm I could do the same from 35 yards.  If you wait too long to become familiar with firearms you will really never be any good.  Oh, sure, from a bench with an expensive scope and a gun vise, everyone is an expert.  But those are not real world shooting conditions.  There is a reason that figure skaters start at 7 years old and their career is over by 25.  So if young people are forced to wait until 21 before they can learn to enjoy and respect the art of shooting then they will never be as good as they might have otherwise been able to achieve.

But lately, leftist corporations are feeling the heat from right wing governments.  Louisiana, for example, is listening to its constituents who are essentially telling them that if the banks want to fuck with their lifestyles via their economic sanctions against gun manufacturers then the people don't want their representative government doing business with them.  For every measure there is a counter measure.  For every embargo their is an end-around.  For every tariff there is a counter tariff.

Best if corporations just stick to their main line of business and stop bending to the will of those who would use them as a political weapon.  Two can play at that game.

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