Thanks Magnuumpwr you provided the best response yet! Look at the times, they are talking about more stupid people than anything else! People back in the 70's would carry guns to bars for one thing and it was not for self defense because they were an inoccent bystander and got assulted. They would carry because when they started crap they could not finish they would shoot someone. Big difference! Plus the song says why don't we dump em people to the bottom of the sea. I always thought this was people not the guns. Skynyrd is and always will be the boys that taught me to be a Simple Man! If Charlie Daniels is best friends with them what more can you say?
Join Date: 02-28-05
Location: Southeast Texas
Posts: 114 Considering the time that the song was wrote, I hold no ill feelings toward the Skynyrd band. Now if a new band comes out with a song dealing with gun control as a main theme, you can bet the farm I'll avoid it like the plague.
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"So why don’t we dump ’em people
To the bottom of the sea
Before some fool come around here
Wanna shoot either you or me"
I feel the same way, when wrote if you carried a gun when you went out drinking, it only had one use!! In fact, the shorter barrel was to make it easier to put in a pocket and conceal. Now it is considered an ideal CCW. Times change and if you understand this, you'll have a better understanding of the past. And just for the record, I'm not saying all changes are for the good, but they will happen. It's up to us all as a whole to control the changes.
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