General Discussion

Warpy

(114,602 posts)

54. People in cities and burbs seem to be

Thu Dec 3, 2015, 03:31 AM

Dec 2015

People in rural areas respect them as tools, nothing more, for hunting for meat, keeping predators away from stock, and bears out of the garbage. NM has had family shootings. ND and WY are bristling with guns and have had no mass murders.

Whatever it is, the second amendment should be scrapped and gun laws turned over to the states. Either that or liability insurance needs to be required, cheap for the rural "get the job done" guns with limited fire power and expensive for the semi auto, large magazine guns favored by paranoid suburbanites and mass murderers.

Something has to be done. I know I'm not alone in being sick of every oaf with a screw loose being able to get a gun. Rights have to be balanced with responsibility and that's just not happening with guns.

Edit history

Please sign in to view edit histories.

Recommendations

0 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):

54 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Run For Office On A Platform To Melt Down All Guns [View all] Yallow Dec 2015 OP

I would donate to that candidate. LonePirate Dec 2015 #1

Americans Are Too Stupid, and Angry To Own Guns Yallow Dec 2015 #2

Put your money where your mouth is GGJohn Dec 2015 #7

Then why do you claim to own one? Throd Dec 2015 #18

So, your campaign platform would essentially be, branford Dec 2015 #52

People in cities and burbs seem to be Warpy Dec 2015 #54

And you really think someone running on such a platform would have a chance GGJohn Dec 2015 #3

Hi GG Yallow Dec 2015 #9

Hi Yallow, GGJohn Dec 2015 #22

I think they'd have an excellent chance Electric Monk Dec 2015 #14

Killer Cartoon Yallow Dec 2015 #17

So run for office. former9thward Dec 2015 #4

Post removed Post removed Dec 2015 #5

Because they fell on their heads ? Trajan Dec 2015 #10

Corpses Maybe? Yallow Dec 2015 #12

But I really want a nuke nadinbrzezinski Dec 2015 #29

If you can't figure it out kentauros Dec 2015 #13

You Can't Say Keep Guns Out Of The Hands Of Crazy People Yallow Dec 2015 #6

You've raised the hackles of our resident Gungeonitic afficiandos ... Trajan Dec 2015 #8

As a gun owner.... I say no to your idea. And I would not vote for such Waldorf Dec 2015 #11

Gun owners more often kill themselves than others - Denver Post Yallow Dec 2015 #15

Is that like going from a 0.08% chance of committing suicide/homicide to a 0.10%? Waldorf Dec 2015 #20

If that were true, GGJohn Dec 2015 #25

That is a misquoting of the Kellerman study. ManiacJoe Dec 2015 #30

Google Is Your Friend Yallow Dec 2015 #34

I cannot tell if you agree or not with the misquoting of the Kellerman study. ManiacJoe Dec 2015 #38

When it comes to gun violence its a war of attrition. Gun humpers will lose no matter what 951-Riverside Dec 2015 #16

We All Knew Billy Bob Was Crazy Yallow Dec 2015 #19

Oh ffs, almost nowhere on Earth is that extreme. sir pball Dec 2015 #21

Another Mass Shooting Today - Overshadowed By Other Mass Shooting - Maybe We Missed Some More? Yallow Dec 2015 #23

+1 951-Riverside Dec 2015 #24

I wonder if anyone has tried that platform before? Throd Dec 2015 #26

Difference Between Rational Gun Owner / Hunter And A Psychopath? Yallow Dec 2015 #27

Yet your solution is to punish all firearm owners for the actions of criminals? GGJohn Dec 2015 #31

You Explain How We Keep Angry People From Killing Innocent People With Guns Yallow Dec 2015 #40

I don't have to explain anything GGJohn Dec 2015 #41

I doubt there's TeddyR Dec 2015 #28

Today Maybe - There Is Hope For Tomorrow Yallow Dec 2015 #33

Quit being so melodramatic. GGJohn Dec 2015 #36

Mass Shooting Frequency Is Increasing Yallow Dec 2015 #32

When I Go Drinking I Always Take 2 Guns Yallow Dec 2015 #35

Then you are part of the problem. GGJohn Dec 2015 #37

I have lived almost my entire life in Minnesota, Snobblevitch Dec 2015 #39

Talk like this virginia mountainman Dec 2015 #42

You keep spouting this nonsense, GGJohn Dec 2015 #43

Maybe They Could Launch Their Campaign Yallow Dec 2015 #46

Oh my, what a brilliant reply. GGJohn Dec 2015 #47

What would I do about coyotes when I'm on my grandfather's ranch in the summers? Recursion Dec 2015 #44

Uh Let Them Live Yallow Dec 2015 #45

So if predators are attacking our livestock, GGJohn Dec 2015 #48

Right, well, that makes it much harder to keep the cattle alive, you see Recursion Dec 2015 #51

Apparently some Democrats believe only urbanites have rights and interests. branford Dec 2015 #53

People were killing people thousands of years before guns were invented davidn3600 Dec 2015 #49

Ah, but there's that pesky old Constitution to contend with. WillowTree Dec 2015 #50