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cherokeeprogressive

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30. THEM? How, pray tell, do you spot "THEM"? I don't wear strange clothes. I don't talk funny.

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 10:45 PM

Jun 2016

I don't carry a gun in public. I don't wear Hobo Kelly sunglasses. I don't wear black socks with birkenstocks nor do I carry a camera around my neck. I don't wear denim bib-overalls, straw hats, or cheap sunglasses.

I also have a nasty habit of not talking in public about what guns are in my locked gun case at home, or how many thousands of rounds of practice ammo I have on-hand.

How the fuck are you going to finger ME, the Operations Manager of a corporation, as one of "THEM"? You're NOT. You'd do business with me all fucking day long... ALL. FUCKING. DAY. LONG. Do I seem irrational to you? Do I seem fearful? What the FUCK do you know about what inadequacies I may or may not have? You don't. You. Do. not.

Mock me. Just don't engage me in a debate. You're not up to the task if your post says anything at all about how you think.

I own eight guns. Five are heirlooms; three I bought. Two 9mm pistols (one for me and one for my Wife), three .22s (one circa 1936 and one circa 1960 and one brand new), one .30-30 circa 1959, one .30-06 circa 1960, and a 20 gage pump shotgun. Four of the long guns have actually FED ME. How the fuck would you ever know they were in my house in a locked up cabinet? I'd certainly never tell you.

You be sure and avoid those "gun-insane" states now, ya hear? Some people "shun guns", others shun fools. Guess which one I am?

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Howard Dean is right. This is the year that gunfuckery begins to end. [View all] onehandle Jun 2016 OP

You mean, "But it was a Sig Sauer Whateverthefuck!" isn't going to cut it anymore? BeyondGeography Jun 2016 #1

+1 villager Jun 2016 #33

Action is needed, some people do not need to have weapons in their possession. Thinkingabout Jun 2016 #2

Rights are NOT ABOUT fucking NEEDS. cherokeeprogressive Jun 2016 #13

because this right is predicated on thousands of innocent deaths annually, needs are not. LanternWaste Jun 2016 #45

No right is absolute. Demit Jun 2016 #59

What makes you think that? Cassiopeia Jun 2016 #3

Hopefully. deathrind Jun 2016 #4

Let the marketplace decide Duckhunter935 Jun 2016 #29

The tipping point... Kang Colby Jun 2016 #5

Being against mass murder of LGBTs is a made up 'condition?' onehandle Jun 2016 #7

Hopolophobia is very real. Kang Colby Jun 2016 #9

The guy who came up with that word... Agschmid Jun 2016 #21

Incredibly over-simplistic thinking jack_krass Jun 2016 #65

Wow. That gif says it all about the direction that gun-control is trending. (nt) w4rma Jun 2016 #15

Blue means they banned guns, right? linuxman Jun 2016 #24

;) Kang Colby Jun 2016 #25

That's a sad map, and... scscholar Jun 2016 #34

Only in your mind, as violent crime and murder rates have dropped friendly_iconoclast Jun 2016 #38

Cause people own devices that kill massive amounts of people? no.. that's silly on its face uponit7771 Jun 2016 #46

What's silly on its face is your denial of reality- see Caetano v. Massachusetts friendly_iconoclast Jun 2016 #64

USSC said these devices can be regulated, not law that they can't uponit7771 Jun 2016 #67

But they cannot be banned entirely, which is what you've advocated elsewhere: friendly_iconoclast Jun 2016 #68

Every time there's another mass shooting, we get closer to the gun humper utopia. Crunchy Frog Jun 2016 #37

What? Kang Colby Jun 2016 #40

Yes it does uponit7771 Jun 2016 #47

You have been telling us that for over a decade hack89 Jun 2016 #6

Please tell how you plan to stop the killings. peace13 Jun 2016 #8

You can't davidn3600 Jun 2016 #10

You know it has worked in a few civilized countries don't you? peace13 Jun 2016 #20

What's even more naive is to think long overdue action won't matter at all. nt villager Jun 2016 #35

Few upstanding governments aided in people killing each other randomly in massive numbers uponit7771 Jun 2016 #48

I am open to most proposals with two exceptions hack89 Jun 2016 #12

"Golden age for gun rights"= blue neen Jun 2016 #17

We have cut our murder and manslaughter rates in half over the past 20 years hack89 Jun 2016 #18

Tell it to the dead children of Sandy Hook. peace13 Jun 2016 #22

Do you expect the murder rate to drop to zero overnight? hack89 Jun 2016 #26

I expect that we get the automatic type of gun off the street! peace13 Jun 2016 #36

Nothing like 'solving' a moral panic with hastily-conceived ideas... friendly_iconoclast Jun 2016 #39

Unfortunately for you, the Supreme Court just put the kibosh on your idea, 8-0 friendly_iconoclast Jun 2016 #41

Not all gun deaths and injuries are caused by murders. blue neen Jun 2016 #31

Accidental deaths are at historic lows too hack89 Jun 2016 #32

No one was mentally ill for this tragedy, although they probably will be now: blue neen Jun 2016 #44

We can trade long lists of kids being killed using legal objects. hack89 Jun 2016 #50

Please link and quote that being because people own mass death devices uponit7771 Jun 2016 #49

I don't think gun ownership rates and murder rates are linked. hack89 Jun 2016 #51

Devices meant to kill massive amounts of humans have increased the number of mass killings though uponit7771 Jun 2016 #52

I am not sure that is the case hack89 Jun 2016 #53

Post ban? tia uponit7771 Jun 2016 #54

I am willing to look at your data. Please post the link. nt hack89 Jun 2016 #55

I didn't make the claim that most of the mass killings post ban was made with hand guns.... uponit7771 Jun 2016 #56

So neither of us knows for certain. hack89 Jun 2016 #57

No... not true at all.. link inside uponit7771 Jun 2016 #58

There is a significant flaw in that logic. hack89 Jun 2016 #60

Then I stand corrected, it was high capacity magazines seeing the ban was mostly costmetic uponit7771 Jun 2016 #61

"mostly handguns and, to a smaller extent, rifles " hack89 Jun 2016 #62

Shun the gun Jerry442 Jun 2016 #11

I shoot with doctors, lawyers, professors- a whole slew of educated professional people like me hack89 Jun 2016 #14

Good luck with that Abq_Sarah Jun 2016 #19

So basically you think all of us out here in Flyover Country are subhuman scum. Got it. Odin2005 Jun 2016 #28

THEM? How, pray tell, do you spot "THEM"? I don't wear strange clothes. I don't talk funny. cherokeeprogressive Jun 2016 #30

And who shall stop the GunFuckery? Silver_Witch Jun 2016 #16

We will. Jerry442 Jun 2016 #42

Doubtful. linuxman Jun 2016 #23

That logo, that screengrab...what are those folks holding in their hands? flvegan Jun 2016 #27

Objects of antiquity. nt onehandle Jun 2016 #43

Choppers. Iggo Jun 2016 #63

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