‘Gun Control Generals’ Called Out By Fellow Veteran

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Lynne Sladky

I’m a peacetime veteran. While there were a few scrapes taking place during my time in uniform, I wasn’t anywhere near them. I was willing, but they were brief, and the Navy wasn’t interested in my willingness to be at any given place anyway.

As such, I always feel a little odd using my “veteran” status, like it’s something I only barely deserve at best.

But it does piss me off when other veterans, particularly generals, throw their weight behind gun control measures. It tells me they forgot the oath they swore upon putting on that uniform for the first time when they vowed to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same.”

I know I’m not the only veteran who gets pissed off at that, either — especially when its generals and other top-level officials who decide to side with the anti-gunners.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation’s Mark Oliva spent 25 years in the Marines, and he’s not happy either.

When general and admirals speak, veterans like me tend to listen. That’s why I perked up at a recent letter …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms