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Maedhros

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24. I just don't trust people to pack weapons with them 24-7.

Reply to sarisataka (Reply #23)

Wed Oct 7, 2015, 01:56 PM

Oct 2015

I've had some (admittedly anecdotal) personal experiences that left me shaking my head. One involves a group of acquaintances purposely carrying their concealed handguns into a music festival where weapons were prohibited just to make a "political statement." Another involves a traffic stop in which the driver of the vehicle alerted the passengers that his pistol was under the seat and "he wasn't going to let the cop take it from him."

Scary shit, from what casual observers would say were "reasonable" people. I have to think there are many, many more concealed carry permits in the hands of abject fools. We should make them much, much harder to get.

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5 Indefensible Tweets From The NRA Since The Oregon Gun Massacre [View all] villager Oct 2015 OP

the merchants of death have to keep their phony baloney jobs spanone Oct 2015 #1

The merchants of death seem to have quite a lot of support in that regard... villager Oct 2015 #2

Corporate McPravda and Flackadamia... Octafish Oct 2015 #8

I've read a few of those talking points on a certain progressive forum, as a matter of fact... Orrex Oct 2015 #3

Oh, the parrots are quite dutiful in their regurgitations... villager Oct 2015 #5

The solution to gun shows is simple hack89 Oct 2015 #4

But guns! Orrex Oct 2015 #6

If you shut down gun shows then you simply make policing gun sales harder hack89 Oct 2015 #7

We've basically been over this already Orrex Oct 2015 #15

So lets work together on UBCs hack89 Oct 2015 #16

Yes, let's work together on UBCs villager Oct 2015 #20

My state has had them for a while now hack89 Oct 2015 #21

Do you make this known publicly in forums *with* your fellow gun owners? villager Oct 2015 #25

DU is the only place I regularly post about guns hack89 Oct 2015 #26

Well, you need to start working on your fellow pro-gunners, I suspect villager Oct 2015 #27

All the gun owners I know well live in New England hack89 Oct 2015 #28

Well no, you can keep posting here on generally pro gun control sites villager Oct 2015 #29

It is not that big a deal to us hack89 Oct 2015 #30

It's a big deal to some of us -- and public gun owner support would have an an outsize impact villager Oct 2015 #31

That's nice nt hack89 Oct 2015 #32

Favorite group Duckhunter935 Oct 2015 #33

Ok. Orrex Oct 2015 #22

yep since it is Duckhunter935 Oct 2015 #9

As we discussed in the gungeon sarisataka Oct 2015 #10

Personally, I am for restricting concealed carrry permits to trained professionals Maedhros Oct 2015 #12

I'm afraid that cat sarisataka Oct 2015 #23

I just don't trust people to pack weapons with them 24-7. Maedhros Oct 2015 #24

I look forward, then, to the networking and lobbying you'll be undertaking with fellow gun owners villager Oct 2015 #19

There no longer is an NRA. Archae Oct 2015 #11

I assume your accompanying image is meant ironically, Archae, but I wouldn't be surprised villager Oct 2015 #14

According to a few conservatives, Jesus would want more guns Archae Oct 2015 #17

You can't be the Prince of Peace unless you come strapped! villager Oct 2015 #18

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