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Gun Control & RKBA

In reply to the discussion: I'm afraid. [View all]
 

CompanyFirstSergeant

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17. I wonder...
Mon May 2, 2016, 08:12 PM
May 2016

...how many posters here are from other nations in which owning weapons for self defense is highly unusual and just not part of the culture.

There are some things that just seem very, very strange, as if an American would time travel back 100 or 150 years to a time before women got the vote and before the Emancipation Proclamation. Wow, how can you treat each other that way......

Or if that same American went to places in the modern world where women cannot drive, where kids work in factories, etc.

Culturally, there are just some things people cannot 'wrap their heads around' no matter what.

As I think back 20 or so years, I remember how difficult it was to carry a handgun in other states. Today, many of the states I applied for CCW licenses now require nothing at all, no license, nothing, to carry a gun, such as Maine and West Virginia.

Times change, distance changes things, and there are no statistics that will make someone not dig their heals in if it just does not fit their paradigm.

Same goes for urban/rural in America. People from the NY metro area get all weird when they see a holstered handgun on someone who is not a cop.

Rural people do that all the time.

No matter, it still looks weird to them.

What I don't understand is the name calling and ridicule. I would never call a non-gunner 'weak' or 'unprepared' or anything insulting. I would never challenge the decision.

I suppose I could say 'hey, what good are you if I ever needed backup during a crime? Not owning a gun could get you killed, and furthermore, if I were in Mickey's and you came in without a gun on your hip, I would run out the door without paying.'

No, I would never say that.

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I'm afraid. [View all] discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2016 OP
I'm always tickled by those who say gun owners live in fear Press Virginia May 2016 #1
My personal opinion discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2016 #2
well my first line of defense is the dogs Press Virginia May 2016 #3
That's a good first option, I believe in the USMC rules for gun fighting... discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2016 #7
Lol EdwardBernays May 2016 #4
there is no evidence to support the claim gejohnston May 2016 #5
lol EdwardBernays May 2016 #9
So in order for a action to qualify as... discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2016 #11
I'm not EdwardBernays May 2016 #13
Well... okay then discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2016 #16
you proved my point gejohnston May 2016 #14
re: "They offer an illusion of safety..." discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2016 #6
Cops carry EdwardBernays May 2016 #8
Are you saying that... discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2016 #10
I'm saying EdwardBernays May 2016 #12
cum hoc ergo propter hoc gejohnston May 2016 #15
Not even vaguely true EdwardBernays May 2016 #22
I do, I also know what I'm reading. gejohnston May 2016 #23
Gun violence. Straw Man May 2016 #25
well EdwardBernays May 2016 #27
we don't have tens of thousands of accidents, gejohnston May 2016 #28
ummm EdwardBernays May 2016 #32
That is pretty low for our population gejohnston May 2016 #35
There's some truth EdwardBernays May 2016 #36
more complete nonsense gejohnston May 2016 #37
Lol EdwardBernays May 2016 #39
your numbers are still wrong gejohnston May 2016 #41
Relevance? Straw Man May 2016 #30
Yes? Straw Man May 2016 #24
Sorry EdwardBernays May 2016 #26
You should be. Straw Man May 2016 #29
here EdwardBernays May 2016 #31
wrong gejohnston May 2016 #33
... and there. Straw Man May 2016 #34
Really EdwardBernays May 2016 #38
Red herrings and false premises. Straw Man May 2016 #40
I wonder... CompanyFirstSergeant May 2016 #17
re: "would never call a non-gunner 'weak' or 'unprepared' or anything insulting." discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2016 #18
The Nuge.... CompanyFirstSergeant May 2016 #19
Well, the Nuge kind of 'ran out the door without paying' discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2016 #20
This is a tricky place. CompanyFirstSergeant May 2016 #21
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