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hunter

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29. As I frequently say here, gun fetishes are disgusting.

Tue Nov 16, 2021, 03:03 PM

Nov 2021

I don't have any problem with hunting for dinner. In a lot of ways that's more honest than buying meat in the grocery store. I also recognize the utility of guns on ranches and farms. (I don't have any fondness for ground squirrels...)

Nevertheless I haven't hunted in the 21st century, partly because my wife is vegetarian approaching vegan and I'm mostly vegetarian, and partly because there are too many whack jobs gun fetishists out there.

My great grandparents were all Wild West. In the family tradition fools and their guns were soon parted.

Another tradition I learned was to never let anyone I'd care to shoot live in my head.

Imagining the sorts of people one would care to shoot makes one a fool. Kyle Rittenhouse is a good example of that.

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I grew up rurally around guns. It was a different world then. [View all] captain queeg Nov 2021 OP

At my rural high school everyone had guns and knives pfitz59 Nov 2021 #1

Yeah. I'd say we had more violence back then, but just physical fights captain queeg Nov 2021 #2

I was around them all my life vercetti2021 Nov 2021 #3

I grew up without guns American Interregnum Nov 2021 #4

I grew up without guns. maxsolomon Nov 2021 #24

I've never even been in the same room where someone had a gun privately. BlueLucy Nov 2021 #5

Can I ask why now? maxsolomon Nov 2021 #25

I though maybe I wrote this and forgot. JohnnyRingo Nov 2021 #6

That's funny. When I read yours I wondered, pretty similar captain queeg Nov 2021 #9

I'll be in your neighborhood tonight. JohnnyRingo Nov 2021 #19

Knew you were close captain queeg Nov 2021 #20

Cabala's wants $600 for a Nylon 66 today. I never had a Nylon 66 my dad doc03 Nov 2021 #16

Well, for plinking a .22 auto is pretty handy. Didn't know they still sold the 66 and how much it captain queeg Nov 2021 #22

That is the old vintage ones from back doc03 Nov 2021 #23

I grew up around them too. kaotikross Nov 2021 #7

My urban high school had a rifle range Thunderbeast Nov 2021 #8

We spent a week in PE class target shooting at the college rifle range (9th grade) hatrack Nov 2021 #14

We live in a rural area, 60% Republican and 40% Democrat. marie999 Nov 2021 #10

Yorktown High School, Arlington County, Virginia, 22207 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2021 #11

+1 Roisin Ni Fiachra Nov 2021 #12

Rotcy people who were on the rifle team would carry their guns on the school bus. Baitball Blogger Nov 2021 #13

It WAS a different world... Septua Nov 2021 #15

Pretty much the same here. stopdiggin Nov 2021 #17

it changed with the "Cincinnati Revolution" maxsolomon Nov 2021 #26

Well said. (nt) Paladin Nov 2021 #18

Gun violence was actually higher back then. Elessar Zappa Nov 2021 #21

it was all good onethatcares Nov 2021 #27

Gun owners that spend too much time with them LiberalFighter Nov 2021 #28

As I frequently say here, gun fetishes are disgusting. hunter Nov 2021 #29

Grew up to respect them, not worship them Ishoutandscream2 Nov 2021 #30

My experience exactly. shrike3 Nov 2021 #31

I'm sure this won't turn into 48656c6c6f20 Nov 2021 #32