Posted April 9, 2019 8:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

We tend to use the phrase “shooting yourself in the foot” to mean someone who screws up something so bad they end up doing more harm to their efforts than good. It’s common enough that it exists completely independent of the gun culture. People who have never touched a gun and have no interest in doing so use it.

For gun people, you’d think the phrase would have a little added significance. After all, we know all the ways you have to screw up to actually shoot yourself in the foot.

That doesn’t mean folks on our side don’t know how to do it metaphorically as well, now does it? First, we have gun rights activists showing up at the Texas Speaker of the House’s home and killing constitutional carry in the state.

Now, we have supposed pro-gun voices threatening a lawmaker who didn’t move on pro-gun bills.

Charleston County deputies are helping monitor the home of a state lawmaker after a potential threat was posted on a Facebook group.

The home of Rep. Peter McCoy, a Republican from Charleston, is being monitored after a comment posted to the Freedom Action Network of South Carolina Facebook group appeared to …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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