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.
"Gimme Back My Bullets" is about the band slipping in the charts. Note:
"Gimme Back My Bullets" is about the band slipping in the charts. Note:
"According to Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington in a 1992 Goldmine interview, this song is about the bullets Billboard charts use to signify a song is moving quickly up the chart. If a song is "#12 with a bullet," it is at #12 but will probably go higher next week. Skynyrd had not had a hit in a while and this was a message that they wanted to get back on the charts."
"According to Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington in a 1992 Goldmine interview, this song is about the bullets Billboard charts use to signify a song is moving quickly up the chart. If a song is "#12 with a bullet," it is at #12 but will probably go higher next week. Skynyrd had not had a hit in a while and this was a message that they wanted to get back on the charts."
Also, if you listen to and read the lyrics, they clearly say "Now handguns are made for killin'. They ain't no good for nothing else." That doesn't sound very pro-handgun to me.
@OneInchPunch In fact Ronnie's on the record as saying how much he hated handguns. He owned one old rifle that was mounted above his fireplace for decoration because it used to belong to his grandfather.
There's no ambiguity about the lyrics whatsoever, he meant what he said, as he generally did. Ironically, one of the few really metaphorical songs he ever wrote was Gimme Back My Bullets, which is about cleaning up his act and straightening up before he seriously damaged himself and has nothing to do with guns.
@OneInchPunch In fact Ronnie's on the record as saying how much he hated handguns. He owned one old rifle that was mounted above his fireplace for decoration because it used to belong to his grandfather.
There's no ambiguity about the lyrics whatsoever, he meant what he said, as he generally did. Ironically, one of the few really metaphorical songs he ever wrote was Gimme Back My Bullets, which is about cleaning up his act and straightening up before he seriously damaged himself and has nothing to do with guns.
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.
@OneInchPunch You are wrong on two counts.
@OneInchPunch You are wrong on two counts.
"Gimme Back My Bullets" is about the band slipping in the charts. Note:
"Gimme Back My Bullets" is about the band slipping in the charts. Note:
"According to Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington in a 1992 Goldmine interview, this song is about the bullets Billboard charts use to signify a song is moving quickly up the chart. If a song is "#12 with a bullet," it is at #12 but will probably go higher next week. Skynyrd had not had a hit in a while and this was a message that they wanted to get back on the charts."
"According to Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington in a 1992 Goldmine interview, this song is about the bullets Billboard charts use to signify a song is moving quickly up the chart. If a song is "#12 with a bullet," it is at #12 but will probably go higher next week. Skynyrd had not had a hit in a while and this was a message that they wanted to get back on the charts."
https://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1704...
https://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1704
Also, if you listen to and read the lyrics, they clearly say "Now handguns are made for killin'. They ain't no good for nothing else." That doesn't sound very pro-handgun to me.
@OneInchPunch Only a gun toting fool wouldn't know that Bullets on Billboard charts.
@OneInchPunch Only a gun toting fool wouldn't know that Bullets on Billboard charts.
@OneInchPunch In fact Ronnie's on the record as saying how much he hated handguns. He owned one old rifle that was mounted above his fireplace for decoration because it used to belong to his grandfather. There's no ambiguity about the lyrics whatsoever, he meant what he said, as he generally did. Ironically, one of the few really metaphorical songs he ever wrote was Gimme Back My Bullets, which is about cleaning up his act and straightening up before he seriously damaged himself and has nothing to do with guns.
@OneInchPunch In fact Ronnie's on the record as saying how much he hated handguns. He owned one old rifle that was mounted above his fireplace for decoration because it used to belong to his grandfather. There's no ambiguity about the lyrics whatsoever, he meant what he said, as he generally did. Ironically, one of the few really metaphorical songs he ever wrote was Gimme Back My Bullets, which is about cleaning up his act and straightening up before he seriously damaged himself and has nothing to do with guns.