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PA: Should human-shaped targets be banned?
Submitted by: Mark A. Taff
Website: www.marktaff.com

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A Pennsylvania representative is angering gun supporters with his bill to ban human silhouette targets at shooting ranges across the state.

According to WHTM, Rep. Thaddeus Kirkland argues the person-shaped targets encourage violence.

“All we are trying to do here is making sure that folks realize that life is precious...And to place up on a wall a silhouette of a human being...it is a really bad practice,” Kirkland told WHTM. “Why not use a deer, why not use an animal that folks are hunting and not a human silhouette?”
 

Comment by: xqqme (1/22/2015)
Remember the adage that a picture is worth a thousand words. Every time I shoot at a man-shaped silhouette, I'm making a very clear statement, something supposedly protected by the First Amendment.

"Hey burglars, robbers, muggers, and other various ne'er-do-wells. I'm training to shoot you, center of mass, in order to stop you from doing what it is that you might do to me and mine."

This proposal is an attack on two of the basic Rights that are supposed to be left alone by our government(s), the Right to say what we want to say, and the right to defend our very lives from those who would do evil to us.
 

Comment by: Uncommon1 (1/22/2015)
Targets should probably remain as silhouettes of humans, but they should probably be a bit larger, since as a nation, we have become more obese in the last couple of generations.
 

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