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  • fiveferrels
    fiveferrels Posts: 397 Member
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    Only guns I carry are the 2 God gave me!!
  • Abells
    Abells Posts: 756 Member
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    guy above me wins!
  • Pacileo4Evers
    Pacileo4Evers Posts: 129 Member
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    Amen to those true words and that is why we must preserve our Second Amendment brothers and sisters
  • wildcata77
    wildcata77 Posts: 660
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    Somone just said something to me the other day that made complete sense. "Sure, make laws against gun ownership and you'll just be taking guns out of law abiding citizens hands, since criminals don't obey the law."

    This.
  • InnerFatGirl
    InnerFatGirl Posts: 2,687 Member
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    They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty. Benjamin Franklin

    "The Constitution shall never be construed....to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms" (Samuel Adams, Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 86-87)

    "The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." -- (Thomas Jefferson)

    Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. – James Madison

    After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. – William S. Burrough

    When they took the 4th Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs.
    When they took the 6th Amendment, I was quiet because I am innocent.
    When they took the 2nd Amendment, I was quiet because I don't own a gun.
    Now they have taken the 1st Amendment, and I can only be quiet.
    – Lyle Myhr

    Those who beat their swords into plough shares shall plough for those who don't. – Anonymous

    An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject: Unknown

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  • cmalhotra11
    cmalhotra11 Posts: 4
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    Not anti-gun per say. They have their place and their uses. I live in Canada and we still have shootings here but not nearly the frequency of the US. We have strict guns laws. - No private citizen needs an AK 15 assault rifle. Perhaps viewpoints of the pro gun lobby will change when one of your loved ones is injured or killed....
  • InnerFatGirl
    InnerFatGirl Posts: 2,687 Member
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    To the people saying the Batman tradgedy would have turned out differently if someone had a gun on them, I think you're living in a movie. Seriously. This is real life, NOT a movie.

    Like someone would have saved the day and shot him down, and all would have been okay. Oh, really?

    How about, if his LEGALLY OBTAINED guns didn't exist or weren't sold to him, those people wouldn't have been killed, least not by bullets.

    You can't be serious. So you think that if James Holmes had been unable to buy his weapons at Bass Pro that he just would have said "well, maybe I won't commit this heinous crime after all. Probably going to be too much effort to find guns". Please. He just would have paid more and gotten even wilder ones from the underground dealers. He planned this for several years. You are being really naive.

    Yep. Which is why this sort of thing happens on a regular basis in America and almost never here.

    But it's just a coincedence, right?

    Our wannabe gangsters find ways to get guns, and they kill their stupid little rivals. Rarely innocents, and when they do, it's not a mass shooting.

    But it's all coincedence.

    How do you disarm criminals?

    Relevance?

    If you ban guns, and all people turn them in, how do you get criminals to turn them in so I am safer?

    There's no one size fits all solution to difficult questions.

    I'd just say keep on fighting to make them impossible to obtain. I still feel safer in a country where guns are banned, as evidenced by the stats and lack of incidents like this.

    There are many things people still buy underground. Still doesn't mean I think they should be legal.
  • foxyforce
    foxyforce Posts: 3,078 Member
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    Not anti-gun per say. They have their place and their uses. I live in Canada and we still have shootings here but not nearly the frequency of the US. We have strict guns laws. - No private citizen needs an AK 15 assault rifle. Perhaps viewpoints of the pro gun lobby will change when one of your loved ones is injured or killed....

    i am mostly surprised that so many americans are PRO GUN but are ANTI HEALTH CARE. if i'm shot, i'd want health care. just sayin'
  • Owlie45
    Owlie45 Posts: 806 Member
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    Well that person is just lovely. What a great human.

    That sign is awesome!!

    No it's not.
    yeah it is! I bet it made the neighbor think twice. if i had a sign like this I bet the guy that broke in to my house would have not done it and in turn would have never been shot

    Love that sign!
  • OfficiallySexyVal
    OfficiallySexyVal Posts: 492 Member
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    Pro-guns
  • mmeddleton
    mmeddleton Posts: 100 Member
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    "Steady Decline in Major Crime Baffles Experts"
    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/us/24crime.html

    "Experts" are puzzled as to why violent crime has decreased so much in the past three years (2009 - 2011). Well, since the 2008 election here, guns have been flying off the store shelves. Gun sales records were set and ammunition was all but impossible to come by. Everything was sold out. Concealed Carry classes were booked for months on end and a permit that normally took 60 days to get took up to six months because of the heavy backlog. The one part of our economy that seems to be thriving. Imagine that!

    Chicago is an exception - but no worries, handguns are illegal there. So all the gun violence there is just imaginary.

    I wonder if there is any correlation between the drastic increase in the numbers of guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens and the decrease in violent crime reported in the article. Naaahhh, couldn't be.
  • Sockimobi
    Sockimobi Posts: 541
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    Somone just said something to me the other day that made complete sense. "Sure, make laws against gun ownership and you'll just be taking guns out of law abiding citizens hands, since criminals don't obey the law."

    This.

    I wish theft was legal. It's not fair that only crims get to steal.
  • beansprouts
    beansprouts Posts: 410 Member
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    I can see the merits of both sides....Personally...I'm glad that they don't allow guns in airports and courtrooms etc...But what people have in their own homes is an entirely different matter.
  • NikkiSixGuns
    NikkiSixGuns Posts: 630 Member
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    Had this discussion with people at work. They know I train- extensively- in tactical shooting and they all said "Too bad you were not there- you could have stopped it" I told them nope- I would not have taken a shot- they all went and asked why not. The reasons was:

    First off I am not a cop. I have no duty to protect and defend anyone but myself and my family. During an active shooter situation I am headed in the opposite direction and will engage ONLY if I have no choice (i.e. hes between me and the exit, I am a target, etc). Police are trained to respond with overwhelming force and shoot down an active shooter- I sure as hell dont want to be engaging the threat when the cop or another CCWer sees me, decides I am the threat and guns me down.

    As for the Aurora shooter- no one can be condition Red all the time. I would never have expected that attack. Trying to engage this threat in a smoke filled, darkened theater with a strobe effect occuring from the movie still playing, a hundred plus people screaming and running everywhere, others on the ground bleeding out, other people in costume, gunshots muffled by the movie, plus the threat was wearing all black? How do you pick him out of all that in the time you have?

    My training for an active shooter is to go for the head or four across the pelvis as many active shooters now wear body armor. This guy owuld have been a bear to bring down- he was wearing armor across the pelvis and a head shot in these conditions would be extremely difficult to make (plus his head was armored on most sides and a gas mask makes going for the head shot even more problematic). Add in the fact that I am a good guy- every bullet that leaves my muzzle has a lawyer attached to it. If I could have stopped the shooter but killed two innocents in the exchange I am looking at prison time and lawsuits. Plus a pistol versus rifle? no contest- I carry a pistol because I am not expecting a gun fight, if I am expecting one I am going for my rifle!

    ^^ This. This exactly! A lot of pro-gun people don't understand why I keep saying that the typical concealed carrier would only be more of a risk to those trying to flee from that type of scenario. The chances of them reacting properly under such extreme stress is extremely slight.

    At any rate, I'm pro-gun (if that means I'm for being allowed to own one). I really enjoy shooting (at the range, not at people of course), and I would love to go deer hunting this winter.

    Thank you! I am all for responsible gun ownership and handling. If more people shared your thinking we'd live in a much safer place.
  • Gwen_B
    Gwen_B Posts: 1,018 Member
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    Anti-Gun
  • WhoTheHellIsBen
    WhoTheHellIsBen Posts: 1,238 Member
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    So this thread is obviously knee jerk reaction crap to the Colorado shootings, here's the thing, if the dude wanted to shoot the place up and couldn't buy his guns legally he would have gotten the illegally. If you want to stop acts such as this here the key, go after the news groups. Jack offs like this want the fame, if you report the crime but never utter the person's name, never show his picture, only refer to him as coward, sissy, *****, loser, or other derogatory names then focus on the names of the victims you will take away the thing all this pathetic little losers are chasing, 15 min of fame. If we as a nation could come together and agree to do that you would deter so many in the future. I bet pretty much everyone on this thread can name the shooter, how many can name the victims without googling it right now? exactly.
    I can already tell you what the next few months will bring. Victims families and lawmakers will seek to tighten up laws on gun control, because not breaking the law is clearly on the top of every criminals to do list. They will then pass a law or 90 to prove that we care, this dog and pony show will run for about a month before everyone moves on to the next shiney bell the Media shakes in front of us. We will then continue to be no safer than we were before. Movie theaters are already banning costumes in theaters, the shooter didn't even show up in a costume. He propped a back door, went to get his gear, came back and went on the attack, so how has not letting a kid dress as batman to see batman make us any safer?
    For those who think a stricter gun law is what we need lets pose this question. In many states a sex offender must remain 100yards or more from schools, parks, and other places kids congregate. Violating this can result in a class A misdermeanor or by a far stretch maybe a felony. This person is going to a park with the intention of attacking a child and commiting multiple felonies as well as destroyiong that childs life, do you think the thing stopping them is a law that says they cannot go to where the kid is? wake up and quit being so stupid, pass all the gun laws you want, that just means only the criminals will be armed.
  • InnerFatGirl
    InnerFatGirl Posts: 2,687 Member
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    Anti-Gun

    Totally a thread derailment, but your hair is gorgeous!
  • TylerJ76
    TylerJ76 Posts: 4,375 Member
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    GUNS!!!!!!
  • mommared53
    mommared53 Posts: 9,543 Member
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    Rolling the thread
  • mommared53
    mommared53 Posts: 9,543 Member
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    Surprised it didn't get locked.

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