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albacore

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6. Exhilarating... in a Freudian way...

Reply to SYFROYH (Reply #5)

Fri May 27, 2022, 11:10 AM

May 2022

I quite got over that thrill. I was an 0331 in Vietnam...M-60 machine gun.
Maybe it finally got thru my thick skull that every fifth round was a tracer, and they gave my position away.

I've always found sex... real sex... much more exhilarating than shooting.

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Here's a video of what's wrong with the gun-humpers. They think a gun is a toy. [View all] albacore May 2022 OP

These idiots should have to spend a shift in a busy inner city ER and see the horror of their "toys. PortTack May 2022 #1

That "toy" makes them feel like God. no_hypocrisy May 2022 #2

This should be the only places kacekwl May 2022 #3

Exactly, well regulated 'gunsturbation' in private only sanatanadharma May 2022 #4

Gunsterbation is my new favorite word Claire Oh Nette May 2022 #8

Guns are not toys but they are fun to shoot, safely at a range SYFROYH May 2022 #5

Exhilarating... in a Freudian way... albacore May 2022 #6

YMMV about the thrill of shooting. SYFROYH May 2022 #7

Exactly, the gamification of weaponry leads directly to stochastic JCMach1 May 2022 #9

If we can't regulate guns, VGNonly May 2022 #10

Ammo is already expensive. Cost doesn't deter the true gun-cult member. albacore May 2022 #11

Remember this guy? VGNonly May 2022 #12

He was police chief of Gilberton, PA when he made this video, and others like it. albacore May 2022 #13