Roanoke Murder Triggers Firearms Freedom Fence Straddler’s Ballistic Conversion

By Robert Farago

Rebecca Walker Benjamin [above] is the News Manager for Alabama Media Group in Huntsville. Checking her work at connect.al.com, we learn that she’s a lifestyle reporter. Where’s your nearest farmers market? Find it on our interactive map; Check out these photos of how Alabamians are staying cool as the temperatures rise; Military tattoos: How common are they?. Like that. Which makes her post I want a gun, and I’m not sure how I got here remarkable on a number of different levels. Let’s start with the fact that Benjamin’s account of her “Road to Damascus” moment includes the usual pro-gun control arguments . . .

Just this last Christmas, us kids went out with him [Benjamin’s father] and shot empty plastic Coke bottles and aluminum cans off a tree stump. I never went hunting as a child, but that’s still a regular past time among my people in northeast Mississippi.

Guns are a way of life there, as they are in many parts of rural America.

But they’re also a way of death all across the U.S.

My response to “Guns don’t kill people; people kill people,” has always …read more

Source:: Truth About Guns