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Shoot the Cow

My three-year-old grandson, Grant, speaks a fascinating language where he replaces nouns with verb phrases. For example, a fish is a “catch-a-water”, an airplane is a “brrrr-up” and a gun is a “shoot-it.” Since his mother is a type-A, speech and language pathologist, I don’t worry about Grant’s speech peculiarity, that’s her job, but he blurted a phrase last Saturday which made me chuckle. All six of my grandkids were feeding at Fuddruckers in Great Falls where marketing experts have cleverly melded a video arcade into the dining experience. (A hamburger and fries are now the cheapest part of family dining.) Grant broke his hamburger into tiny pieces, mixed it with his catsup and fries and then covered it with his napkin; he finished lunch without actually swallow anything. Grant tugged at my sleeve with his left hand, while he dug in my pocket for quarters with his right hand, all while hollering, “Shoot-the-cow!”

Apparently “shoot-the-cow” means let’s feed dollars into the arcade machines. You could be driving a video race car, or playing air hockey but every joystick is a gun and the term for the activity is “shoot-the-cow.” As the machines sucked all the hard earned dollars from my wallet I studied my daughter and son-in-law and wondered, “From which side of Grant’s redneck, road-hunting, heritage does the term ‘shoot-the-cow’ originate?” Granted, the Kerns side hails from the Crow Reservation of southern Montana, and the Kimmel side was cultured on the Turner grasslands of northern Montana, so a chinook wind blows ripe rednecks from every branch of the family tree. It is hard to be certain, but I told you this story so you would understand gun rights run deeply in both my ancestors and progeny, and this brings me to my point.

Your right to “keep and bear arms” is about to be infringed. The Second Amendment is not about hunting, sport shooting, sportsmen access to public lands or gun collecting, it’s about freedom. Our founders placed it number two in the Bill of Rights so the ruling class must always seek the consent of the governed…a well armed governed actually. Unfortunately, gun-control politicians are masters of deception. As long as they can fool 50.1 percent of the voters to think they are pro-gun, the con continues…all while they incrementally tighten the gun-control noose. Do you need proof?

In March of 2010 the Obama administration switched positions so as to prohibit the importation of 850,000 Korean War era, used M1 semi-automatic rifles into the United States from South Korea. Fox News reports the US State Department said the decision was “based on concerns that the guns could fall into the wrong hands.” Could the wrong hands be the once free Americans guaranteed a right which shall not be infringed? To deceptively show they are pro-gun, last week Montana’s Senators Baucus and Tester proposed legislation lifting this ban. Gun-control progressives will flock to cosponsor this bill because it sounds so pro-freedom, but are you aware what they are doing with the hand hidden behind their back? Let me explain.

Two recent US Supreme Court decisions affirmed your rights to keep and bear arms: DC v. Heller in 2008 and McDonald v. Chicago in 2010. Both decisions were handed down on a five to four vote, so four progressive justices interpret the Constitution allows the infringement of gun rights. President Obama Supreme Court appointee, Justice Sotomayor, voted with the minority as likely will newest appointee, Elena Kagan. Americans are just one Supreme Court vote away from being disarmed and both these progressive justices were confirmed by progressive senators…the same ones deceptively clamoring to lift the M1 gun ban. Gun owners must understand your battle is in the Supreme Court and you don’t affirm your gun rights with bullets, you do so with ballots. Your vote means things and progressives want you disarmed. Think about it.

In the 2009 Montana Legislative session I successfully sponsored legislation affirming a Montanan’s fundamental right of self defense and the right to keep and bear arms. Because we are so close to losing gun rights, I want Montana Code filled with verbiage declaring our rights to self preservation…sort of a thorn in the side of those advocating for a tyrannical, unconstitutional, federal government. My task is not complete and, should the voters in HD#58 return me to office, I have more to do in 2011. The line is drawn!

 
 
 
 
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