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In reply to the discussion: DU Historians please help me out [View all]beevul
(12,194 posts)32. No, I imagine them keeping the coyotes from eating my little furry ones, as they have in the past.
Do you imagine using your guns for self defense or as a means of projecting your authority?
No, I imagine them keeping the coyotes from eating my little furry ones, as they have in the past.
Do you enjoy youtube videos celebrating the same?
No, but I enjoy a good sasquatch sighting video from time to time.
Can you imagine yourself shooting a "bad guy?"
When the bad guy is a coyote, I sure can.
What does that "bad guy" living in your head look like?
I'd ask you the same question, but I already know the answer: Someone that owns guns.
In my world, on the other hand, 'bad guys' are only "bad" based on their behavior rather than their looks.
Do you debate people like me on DU, "defending" your guns from our insults?
No, I debate people like you on DU to try to keep reality afloat amongst a storm of anti-gun lunacy.
Are you a member of the NRA?
Nope, but I was once for a year when I was a kid, being that a years membership came free with the gun safety course I took.
Do you talk about guns the way some unappealing men talk about women's breasts?
No, but now that you mention it, there are a few folks around here who talk about gun owners similar to how you describe.
Maybe you could ask them.
I could go on if you like...
That's nice bunky, but all you have to go on with is your own misplaced hatred, which you are more than welcome to continue to demonstrate.
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Maybe it wasn't tested in courts because people saw it as a reasonable way to be safer.
Rose Siding
Jul 2016
#4
Perhaps, but they also thought exercising overt racism against the Chinese also kept them safer.
Nuclear Unicorn
Jul 2016
#6
All of which has exactly nothing to do with a town having sensible gun laws applied to everyone
Rose Siding
Jul 2016
#29
What gun law would have stopped any of the killings by or of the police?
Nuclear Unicorn
Jul 2016
#30
I just got a mental image of a lot of heavily armed, pants-less men running around
Squinch
Jul 2016
#26
Do you imagine using your guns for self defense or as a means of projecting your authority?
hunter
Jul 2016
#28
No, I imagine them keeping the coyotes from eating my little furry ones, as they have in the past.
beevul
Jul 2016
#32
I've got plenty of experience with coyotes. My mom's favorite dog got eaten by one when I was a kid.
hunter
Jul 2016
#35
The murder rate in the "wild west" was always significantly lower than the East
Recursion
Jul 2016
#31