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| Lynyrd Skynyrd – Saturday Night Special Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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In reference to a previous comment quoting the interview with Ronnie Van Zant, this has to be taken in context to the times, it was the 70's, things were different then and his words cannot be used in today's context to have the same meaning as back then. I'm fairly sure, given his clear love of individual freedom, that he would not support the current clamouring for gun control by pencil-pushers and politicians who Ronnie was always very untrusting and cynical of. He may want to "throw them ALL in the sea" but he never said he would support the disarming of the public while the corrupt leaders get to arm themselves and their cronies to the teeth. |
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| Lynyrd Skynyrd – Saturday Night Special Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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This argument is easily neutralized by referencing another Skynyard song (a song by the original Skynyrd by the way, not the reformed one). The song I'd like to reference is a song called "Gimme Back My Bullets". If Saturday Night Special is an "anti-gun" song, then Gimme Back My Bullets is a pro-gun song. Going by all the mentions of guns in LS songs and pictures of Ronnie Van Zant sitting in his yard barefoot with a shotgun on his lap, I'd say he liked guns, he was certainly an owner of guns himself and therefore, he was pro-gun ownership. The only reason most anti-gun liberals hold their view is because they do not understand the complexity of the firearms issue. If they understood the history of gun control globally and the deep implications of surrending your right to adequately protect your family, they would soon see sense and change their minds. Allowing the clearly corrupt powers-that-be to be the only ones allowed to have guns would be insanity. In this song, Ronnie was clearly talking about the bigger picture, saying if only humanity at large could throw all their guns in the sea, not just we the peasants! I'm all for gun control if it means military and police and all other organizations in the power structure have to do the same but clearly that is never going to happen and the libtards are too dumb to realize that they are supporting a suicidal cause by supporting gun control. |
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