The Sound of Silencers
I’m not against it but I’ve never understood the sport of hunting. You, the hunter, have on camoflague gear, animal attraction devices and huge weapons that could make a rampaging herd of elephants stop dead in their tracks and wet themselves. You are hunting the prey, say a deer, who has antlers and a cute mug as his weapon. Maybe if the hunter is so sensitive that he occassionally cries during “Bambi,” then you could call it a sport. So why do hunters need even more amenities at their disposal like silenced machine guns?
CHEYENNE (Denver Post) — It was called Senate File 79, a proposed law that would have allowed hunters to carry automatic weapons such as machine guns into the woods. And to equip those guns with Godfather-style silencers.
Which conjured up some negative images. People using the silenced guns for poaching of wildlife, for example. And, of course, the image of the Soprano family vacationing in Wyoming, being insulted by an elk and having it whacked.
However, the proposal went on to say that while hunters - who make up more than half the population in this wildlife-rich state of just more than 500,000 people - would be allowed to have the automatic weapons and silencers, it would remain illegal to actually use them for hunting.
This has got to be the second craziest proposal for weakening gun restrictions in this country since that senator in Texas wanted to legalize self-replicating napalm for home protection.
Why is it when we start discussions in this country about guns, it inevitably goes back to the hunters. “Well, what if a hunter wants to a Tech 9 Semi Automatic Rifle to shoot deer?” Are hunters the only reason we have a Second Amendment in this country? If so, we should also put in another amendment in the Bill of Rights requiring them to wash the deer urine off themselves before they go back in public.
I can already see the hunters writing their letters now. “Well silencers wouldn’t make a lot of noise and scare away the other deer after you them.” How many deer does a hunter need to shoot to make up for his very small penis?