"People who do not own guns should not be regulating them."

[kpete]

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[Faux pas]

2. Good

One!

[SmartVoter22]

3. And drive a car if you didn't build & design it?

This thread is off track from the get go.
What a comparison. More than apples & oranges.
I held a gun and fired it once.... I guess that qualifies me as a marksman.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. I Have A Rifle

Hasn't been out of the case since the rifle range closed about 20 years ago. It's in a locked case, chained to a 5 gallon bucket of cement.
Right now, I don't have any ammunition.
I used to buy it at the range, and only bought the number of rounds I fired. (Shoot, then pay.)
I guess I get to regulate guns, then. Which is ok by me.

[thenelm1]

23. Same here. I have an old German-made .22 single shot rifle...

that was my dad's when he was a kid in the late 30s (and makes it an antique by any measure & likely worth some $$ with some basic maintenance). I used to plink cans with it when I was a kid. The thing sat in my dad's garage for years and the interior of the barrel is so rusted the danged thing would probably blow up if anyone attempted to fire it now before a thorough cleaning. Now it sits in my closet. That makes me a gun owner, though generally I have no use for the things. It's a great memory from my childhood, but I'll never understand the fascination of the gun humpers. Does that qualify me for a say in regulating guns? If that's their new "definition", then the answer should be yes.

(And if they want to start "qualifying" who has a say on gun policy, what other policies should those same type of qualifications apply too? They may not be too happy when those same types of "rules" start getting applied to things they don't like or approve of. Be careful what you wish for.)

[ProfessorGAC]

33. Mine Is 75th Anniversary Edition...

...of the Springfield 03.
The president of the CU of which I was on the board moonlighted in a high end long gun "boutique".
Some guy traded it in on some some super expensive hunting rifle and my pal got it for me on what they gave in trade. I used to borrow a scope for qualifications and contests. Don't have my own.
Then, he got me into that target range. (Closed because that area of the county exploded with new home building.)
I never looked for another.
I probably should sell the thing through a licensed broker.

[StClone]

5. No the thread "hits the mark, it's on target!"

[niyad]

11. Did you see the whole 'toon?

[SmartVoter22]

30. Yes, it has two topics

One for the obvious gun point and one for the ongoing assault on anything female.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. I mean, tbf, I often hear the argument that if you don't have a uterus you can't regulate it.

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. I LOVE IT!!!!!

To those who don't get it, they are illustrating the hypocrisy of the repuq party.

[erronis]

34. As we like to say, "Hypocrisy is a feature, not a bug!" They've figgered out it buys votes and $$s

I guess their poor maggots and rich sobs like it.

Evolution is still in progress......

[Ferrets are Cool]

36. Oh, in the case of repuq supporters,

I think evolution has definitely stopped.

[LizBeth]

8. I own a gun. Regulate it. Who says a Dem doesn't own guns?

[niyad]

12. A lot of people. I have a friend on the western slope (boebert's district) who regularly points out

to the pukes that he owns guns, and knows how to use them. Shocks the hell out of them.

[LizBeth]

15. I told a white 30 something educated woman who told me she voted Republican because she is a

Christian that Democrats are Christians too. She pondered, actually pondered and processed then agreed. Dumb shit.

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

13. Another democrat gun owner

People seem to forget

[LizBeth]

16. Right. I do not even like guns. Easy peasy one and given to me but 8 yrs later, I am

totally ready to get out of house. But, I know lots of gun owning Dems.

[JI7]

9. What if they are getting shot and killed ?

[niyad]

10. That was certainly my first thought.

[doc03]

14. I own ten guns 4 long guns and 6 handguns. I think every gun sale should require a

background check. I haven't went hunting for several years but I never needed an AR15 with a 30 round magazine
to kill a deer. I have one handgun that has a 16 round magazine but would have no problem if they outlawed a magazine of that capacity. I keep the 16 round magazine loaded with 10 rounds for home defense I don't really expect an army to invade my house.

[FoxNewsSucks]

17. They may not own the vaginas,

but they think that they do. That's the problem

[BarbD]

18. Perfect question.

And the answer is all about power.

[Nevilledog]

19. ...

[CloudWatcher]

20. I have several guns ...

And would absolutely love it if they were banned and I could turn them in to get melted down.

But to the original post ... yeah, don't make rules impacting the poor unless you're poor, the sick unless you're sick, and higher education unless you can think.

[enki23]

21. Does this apply to heroin?

.

[keithbvadu2]

22. The cartoon is also highly symbolic in another way.

The cartoon is also highly symbolic in another way. The extreme gun nuts love to intimidate unarmed folks and patrol already safe neighborhoods in daylight to show how tough they are. Let them patrol the Chicago projects on Saturday night where many thousands of decent people are trapped in their apartments, afraid to come out.

[world wide wally]

29. It looks like the GQP guy shot off his right foot

[Grokenstein]

24. On the other hand

...people who don't understand science really shouldn't be allowed to regulate it.

[samnsara]

25. i got both

[krispos42]

26. People that lack knowledge of a topic should gain knowledge before opining.

Some people prefer to stay in echo chambers and silos. Nothing wrong with asking people if you don't know; DUers are generally knowledgeable and polite.

In the case of a woman's body, you just have to know enough to have the concept of bodily sovereignty. In other words, mind your own damn business.

[BobTheSubgenius]

27. Re: the OP...

Has someone actually said that?

[erronis]

35. Out loud, recorded? In print? Maybe and probably.

Thought it? No doubt.

[LiberalFighter]

28. So I guess because I was young teenager that had Gun Safety in 4-H...

and shot a rife a few times I get a say.
Or maybe because my father had one in the house that he used for deer hunting I get a say.
Or maybe because my grandfathers went deer hunting and one of them kept his rifle in the closet in the country store by the front door I get a say.

[eppur_se_muova]

31. Only people who use drugs should make drug policy.

Doesn't that work just as well ?

[YMB]

32. Iv always felt that saying

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was more about people who know about guns rather than people who own them cause as history as taught us any idiot can own a gun in this country, but it takes people who know about them to make the rules on them since its not as straight forward as "ban them" in this country. A lot of guns have a lot of elements to them. You have to know the specifics of them and whats already in law otherwise you get a shit ton of loop holes, work arounds and conflicting elements that can be easily met in court.

[soldierant]

39. I've always felt, and often said,

that people who know about guns should regulate them. If they don't, they have only themselves to blame if those of us who don't know about them or own them step in and do so.

But they refurse. Therefore we must.

[BlueJac]

37. Bingo!

[50yrdem]

38. I agree with the 'headline'

My High School (~850 students) in the late 1950s had a gun CLUB. We brought our guns in our cars and took
them right in the front door on Wednesday meeting days. We practiced safe handling and proper etiquette
and learned these from materials largely provided by the NRA. Nobody was ever killed or even hurt by
our firearms. The guns have remained virtually the same all the intervening years, aside from a few
cosmetic changes (people think they look 'scary') and are no more or less powerful, dangerous or threatening.
It is clear, therefore, that whatever has changed is NOT the hardware.