Grateful dead was pro gun

So many people either don't know or forget this...they shot guns, and even took pictures with them at their house in The Haight. An older Hippie even told me that all the Hippies in The Haight, and many Hippies themselves were and are pro second amendment just like myself. She told me that The Haight was thought at one time to have more guns than the police department

 

Never listened to their music.

 

I take a little powder
I take a little salt
I put it in my shotgun
and I go walking out

Chuba-chuba
Wooley-booley
Looking high
Looking low
Gonna scare you up and shoot you
Cause Mr. Charlie told me so

Mr. Charlie": I've always thought the subject of the song was Charles Manson. The lyrics might be sung from the point of view of one of the followers, for whom "Mr. Charlie told me so" could be a perfectly succinct statement of philosophy. "Gonna scare you up and shoot you?" The random murders at the Tate and LaBianca houses. Manson's obsessions with guns, knives and torture is well documented in The Family and Helter Skelter.

 

I love pigpens songs

 

One of them cowboys, he starts to draw,
And I shot him down, Lord he never saw.
Well I grabbed a bottle, cracked him in the jaw,
Shot me another, oh damn he won't grow old.
In the confusion, my uncle grabbed the gold,
And we high-tailed it down to Mexico.

I love those cowboys, I love their gold,
I loved my uncle, God rest his soul,
Taught me good, Lord, Taught me all I know
Taught me so well, I grabbed that gold
And I left his dead ass there by the side of the road.

 

If I had a gun for every ace I've drawn
I could arm a town the size of Abilene
Don't you push me baby cause I'm moaning low
You know I'm only in it for the gold..

 

Down to the jewelry store packing a gun,
says "Wrap it up. I think I'll take this one"
"A thousand dollars please," the jewelry man said
Dupree he said, "I'll pay this one off to you in lead"

 

From their lyrics, they do not seem so much pro-gun as they are pro-crime and pro-death.

 

1940 Xmas evening with a full moon over town
Staggerlee met Billy DeLyon
and he blew that poor boy down
Do you know what he shot him for?
What do you make of that?
'Cause Billy DeLyon threw lucky dice,
won Staggelee's Stetson hat

Baio, Baio, tell me how can this be?
You arrest the girls for turning tricks
but you're scared of Staggerlee
Staggerlee is a madman and he shot my Billy dead
Baio you go get him or give the job to me

Delia DeLyon, dear sweet Delia-D
How the hell can I arrest him when he's twice as big as me?
Don't ask me to go downtown - I wouldn't come back alive
Not only is that mother big but he packs a .45

 

I need a woman 'bout twice my weight...

A ton of fun who packs a gun with all her other freight..

 

I've waved my flags into the sun
I've fought my wars, and now they're won
And I don't need nobody's gun
I bent their mind...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvG3Z9c_1ho"]Grateful Dead - Can't Come Down-Mindbender-The Only Time is Now - YouTube

 

Well that particular song was to speak against it, by providing an example. Some songs are like that, others aren't

 

Here is a favorite of mine. I laugh every time I see it. Can anyone identify the rifle?

 

sorry ive been dealing with family stuff that is a cool rifle can someone identify that?