locking up nuts

This is why I dislike discussing gun policy with Beagles.  No matter how carefully I frame my argument (Maybe 30 people a year killed by semi weapons, who would have survived an attack by a single shot killer vs the convenience of some hunter who, having missed his first shot having a chance at a second shot, which he probably won't make because if he was a good shot he would have hit the varmint in the first place, likewise the third shot), it makes no difference, because Beagles' sole argument is that if they outlaw any shooting iron that brings them a little closer to taking Old Betsy, and you can't tell tell him otherwise, so why bother?

Many anti-gun people are also anti-hunting people and vice versa.  I have read, in their own literature that, if guns are banned, hunting will become less popular and, if hunting is banned, there will be no excuse for private citizens to own guns, which is their ultimate goal.

I would like to know the source of this.  I'm sure some anti-gun people are anti-hunting, but many hunters are also for gun control, and I can't offhand name any prominent gun control person who has said anything about taking away the rifles of hunters.  This whole argument about banning hunting as a way of banning guns sounds ludicrous.  Surely it's the raving of some tin foil hat guy.  Where is this 'literature' where Beagles has read this?  I have never heard anything so consarn silly.

I think I remember that poll about a majority of people thinking that Trump will be elected, but polls come and go you know, the latest Fox poll has each one of the big four dem candidates beating Trump by about ten points, but that could change in a week.  Has Beagles not heard of Trumpists who disapprove of Trump's undainty ways, yet like him for his conservative agenda?  Maybe ninety percent of elected rep officials have said that after one of his outbursts.  Beagles is hardly the only one which probably disappoints him, to be with the majority of Republicans.

This trope of locking up nuts to prevent shootings has been around as long as there have been shootings, it is mainly a way of saying do anything, whether it works or not, but don't come after my guns.  Nuts have been around since we were apes, and building nuthouses has never changed that.  It's a stupid argument, and if Trump read it (I'm sorry did I say Trump read?  If Hannity had happened to read it and then to mention it on his tv show), then he did not get it from anything I have said.

Happy Friday Gentlemen, and have a good weekend.