Citizens and Weapons

[Lefty]

At the behest of another JUBBER or two, the following is submitted for your
intellectual review and expressions of thought, not political or rhetorical
response...........This could be interesting and all serious points of view will
be welcomed as fuel for thought not for adding to the fire.


PEOPLE ASK WHY?

Why I Carry a Gun

My old grandpa said to me son,' there comes a time in every man's life
When he stops bustin' knuckles and starts bustin' caps and usually it's
When he becomes too old to take an ass whoopin'.
I don't carry a gun to kill people.
I carry a gun to keep from being killed.

I don't carry a gun to scare people.
I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place.

I don't carry a gun because I'm paranoid.
I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world.


I don't carry a gun because I'm evil.
I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the
World.


I don't carry a gun because I hate the government.
I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.


I don't carry a gun because I'm angry.
I carry a gun so that I don't have to spend the rest of my life hating
Myself for failing to be prepared.


I don't carry a gun because I want to shoot someone.
I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed, and
Not on a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon.


I don't carry a gun because I'm a cowboy.
I carry a gun because, when I die and go to heaven, I want to be a
Cowboy.


I don't carry a gun to make me feel like a man.
I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the
Ones they love.


I don't carry a gun because I feel inadequate.
I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am
Inadequate.


I don't carry a gun because I love it.
I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful
To me.

Police Protection is an oxymoron. Free citizens must protect themselves.
Police do not protect you from crime, they usually just investigate the
Crime after it happens and then call someone in to clean up the mess.


Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to
Take an ass whoopin'.

..author unknown

 

[MoufOfKhaos]

Uhuh. ............

 

[jackoroe]

It's a tool, nothing more. But it's one of those tools that when you need it, you really need it.

I was out west on vacation recently. Everybody carries a gun and it isn't a big deal.

 

[HunterM]

I don't carry guns. But I love going to the shooting range to practice target shooting using my buddy's guns.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

well

if a look it a this a way

usa ans uk fa example every member population contribute ta da slaughter of untolds numbers just past 10 year

france italy west east ans join ans pre germany china spain portugal india brazil australia canada chile Columbia russia bel a rus ukraine South africa Nigeria Algeria all of um

so is not public it enuff fill stomach or they a just love a be da Twat of eons?

thankyou

 

[RaKroma]

But this is one issue that the Republicans have right. I'm not sure how the Democrats ever got the idea that gun ownership was so horrible, but honestly is it any different from carrying a knife? London's overwhelmed right now by knifings. (I'd rather get shot anyway, than get knifed, all that flesh slicing and dicing just grosses me out.)

Democrats were not always anti-gun. In many Blue states including one of the most liberal states Vermont has one of the most laxest gun laws in the nation. The anti-gun mentality from Democrat elites started from large urban cities in the North-East where urban violence was difficult to control. Inner city gangs were plaguing communities with drug related gun violence. Even look at California where certain sections of LA had more gang on gang homicides than California National Guard sustaining causalities in Iraq.

I have been to states with strong gun cultures and you get used to it very fast. Legal gun owners do not commit homicides or armed robberies or run around raping people. It is the thugs who get weapons illegally for criminal purposes. Responsible citizens should have freedom to chose whether they want to take the burden of legal responsibility to protect themselves with fire arms. All CCW owners take courses and learn laws about when and how they can defend themselves. I was shocked to read an article about legal gun ownership in NYC. Basically all Wall Street execs, Democratic political elites, NYT chief editor and many celebs here hold gun licenses and have weapons (including Bloomberg and Shumer) but they are the first ones to deny everyone else the option to defend themselves because "we are small people" who can't be trusted with guns.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

In America, do I get to wear a swastika tattoo, shoot black people and then get raped in prison by my gangmembers?

Just askin'.

 

[RaKroma]

In America, do I get to wear a swastika tattoo, shoot black people and then get raped in prison by my gangmembers?

Just askin'.

You're closer to Norway. You can join some christian crusade clan there, wear any symbols and shoot people all day before someone will wake up to respond. But no rape in prison. You will get gourmet meals though and cable tv.

 

[maxpowr9]

I have nothing really against gun-ownership despite not having one. All I really want is some gun-protection laws (background checks etc.). Do we really want former felons and "mentally unstable" people with firearms? No.

 

[navigaytion]

In America, do I get to wear a swastika tattoo, shoot black people and then get raped in prison by my gangmembers?

Just askin'.

Fits like a glove:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXaZENPQrsw[/ame]

 

[RaKroma]

I have nothing really against gun-ownership despite not having one. All I really want is some gun-protection laws (background checks etc.). Do we really want former felons and "mentally unstable" people with firearms? No.

How many states allow mentally insane people and felons to own firearms? How did that felon become a felon?---because he already broke bunch of laws on the books to get that title. Do you think he will follow a legal process to own a weapon or buy it off the streets? Ironically the problem with background checks on mentally insane is that privacy groups made it very difficult to release mental illness info as it's considered private medical issue. And how many gun crimes are committed by mental people buying guns all over U.S. where we have millions of firearms owners?

As a non-American, I never understood the need to carry or even own a gun. It's a foreign concept to me. Is the saying "guns don't kill people, people kill people" really that far off?

In U.K. and China the saying is "knives and shanks don't stab people, people stab people."

 

[swerve]

I have nothing really against gun-ownership despite not having one. All I really want is some gun-protection laws (background checks etc.). Do we really want former felons and "mentally unstable" people with firearms? No.

You answered your own question DIFFERENTLY than I would have answered it...

My response that I don't want such a SMALL PERCENTAGE of the people to DENY the entire population...

The felons and those that REALLY WANT a gun for nefarious purposes -- will get one either way...

We have a BUNCH of guns at our house -- unfortunately, I cannot carry any with me -- because of all the different STATE laws that I drive through...

 

[racer2438]

We don't carry, have, want, need guns. But it's our right to have and carry and it should remain everyone's right to bear arms.

I do hope (pray) that we will never need one or be assaulted with one

but we (us) agree it should be allowed when all proper paperwork is documented and registered.

 

[highwindcaleb]

i live in a heavy gang crime area in south florida. every other night there is a story about a few people getting shot.

i still never felt the need to carry a gun though, i have my knife in case i get mugged by someone i can actually fight. this is because when i think about it if that bastard is going to shoot me, i probably won't know it until I've been shot.

 

[MoufOfKhaos]

I abhor guns not used for war or hunting, and even then I'd wish for the feudal age of swords and other handheld close range weaponry.

Now. I grew up in the "the gangs are invading our suburbia!" era(mid-80's to mid-90's), so gun violence was either in music and movies, or plastered all over the 5 o'clock news - both glorified and horrified. In short, it painted my sordid hatred for people that wield them as a way to gain or project a sense of power. This by no means is to say I don't agree with the right to own them - it just says I won't. Nor does it suggest i'm thoroughly anti-gun - true, I'd love a world where they didn't exist in most, if not all forms, but i'm just not a fan of them(i'm flawed that i'll watch movies and tv shows with them, however won't wear anything with a gun on it).

I own a knife(and if it wasn't a gay pride knife, I may not own it actually - but it's symbolic and I bought it for a reason); it's not as indiscriminate in the wrong hands.

 

[geloge]

I think this is a north american topic

 

[Kabluey]

Looks like there's a few hundred million guns in the US [cite whatever].
Does that mean most are never actually used?

 

[HunterM]

Don't see the reason on why anyone would want one, but people find their reasons.

Hunters need guns for hunting seasons.

 

[alfaPA]

I abhor guns not used for war or hunting, and even then I'd wish for the feudal age of swords and other handheld close range weaponry.
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I have nothing really against gun-ownership despite not having one. All I really want is some gun-protection laws (background checks etc.). Do we really want former felons and "mentally unstable" people with firearms? No.

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I know a few people who hunt, one will only use a cross bow. I feel comfortable with them owning firearms. IMO, anyone who doesn't feel that there needs to be responsible, effective and enforceable way to control and monitor the sale of firearms is mentally unstable and shouldn't be allowed firearms....and the god given "right to own automatic weapons"...really?

I've always thought that the day I feel threatened enough to need or want a firearm is the day I move somewhere else. So far so good!




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[HoodedRat]

It must be awful to live in a country where one feels the need to arm oneself against one's fellow countryfolk.