Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Pack That Gun When You're Raking Leaves

Back in February, I wrote about Brad Krause, the gun-loving goofball that has an irrational fear of crabgrass so great that he felt compelled to wear a gun when doing gardening work. I followed it up with a couple of other posts, including one that shared a story why people were right in feeling concerned about these crackpots walking around with guns for no real reason.

As one can imagine, this led to all sorts of gun nuts pouring out of the woodwork, all chastising and/or ridiculing for expressing what I considered to be sound reasoning. Among my critics was Owen Robinson, who thought I was way over the line, and tried to show this by going over the deep end himself.

The gun nuts and their irrational behaviors only multiplied over the summer. The main cause for this excessive display of poor coping skills was largely prompted by an opinion piece by Attorney General J. B. Van Hollen, who irresponsibly put his politics before common sense, and stated that he thought it was just hunky-dory for people to walk around with openly carried guns.

Well, in what I am afraid is a sign of things yet to come to Wisconsin, thanks to Van Hollen's lack of forethought, is a story from Massachusetts which only shows I was correct all along (emphasis mine):
A Randolph man pleaded not guilty to armed assault with intent to murder after police said he shot his neighbor over a leaf-dumping dispute.

[...]

Police said the 38-year-old shot his neighbor John Rota in the stomach Friday when they got into an argument over the disposal of leaves near their Randolph homes.

Authorities said Rota was taken to Boston Medical Center and later released.

Rota told police that Leonard always carried his gun, even when cutting the lawn or playing with the kids in the yard.

I can't wait to hear the arguments that everyone has a right to protect themselves from leaf-raking thugs, or some other similar nonsense.

1 comment:

  1. Is it at all possible that a fellow with the questionable cerebral wiring to carry a sidearm while doing lawn work is secretly wishing, hoping, anticipating a chance to pull it and use it? I'm just saying.

    "What do you mean you don't like me raking my leaves onto your lawn!
    BLAM! Take that commie. (John Wayne would be so proud)

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