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In reply to the discussion: Why your gun makes me nervous [View all]Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)82. we just point out
the hypocrisy of how you run your group and selectively enforce the rules you make up and are not part of the SOP.
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If an African American (or Mexican, Chinese, or other) tells you they think something is racist
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
#2
Do you tell people that want to defend themselves that it is all in their heads?
Nuclear Unicorn
Jan 2015
#15
Ok, so how many times have guns saved your life? Where, without one, you'd be dead?
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
#18
Does your hypothetical woman carrying for self defence need a 30 round mag, bayonet lug,
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
#23
My only problem with you keeping guns in your house is it increases the odds of you getting shot. nt
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
#29
Once, when I was mugged. If I'd had a gun too it'd probably have made the situation even worse.
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
#34
I don't know where they got their guns. Could've been a gun show parking lot "private sale". nt
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
#39
There's a video on YouTube of a Detroit woman defending her home with an AR-15.
Nuclear Unicorn
Jan 2015
#35
I think total prohibitionists are just as unrealistic as some of the extreme rkba fanatics. nt
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
#45
Of the 41 blocks in GCRA, 39 were blocked before I was a host, so I can't say for sure why each was.
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
#52
I think it's safe to say you were both blocked for being already known hardcore gunthusiasts
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
#64
You're picking nits. That host blocked you for your attitude about guns and gun control. As would I
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
#68
I admit I have no way of knowing what they were actually thinking when they wrote that post.
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
#84
If what you say is true, then why isn't this poster blocked for this one post.
oneshooter
Jan 2015
#80
But you disagree with that part of the SOP, so why do you even want to be part of the Group
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
#88
When is the last time a seatbelt or life jacket killed someone, intentionally or by mistake? nt
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
#24
Now you're shifting the goalposts. Your standard in post #20 was reducing deaths and injuries. nt
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
#27
Feel free to link to statistics comparing them all. I'm not going to waste time looking for you. nt
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
#32
I thought we were talking about seat belts and life jackets? You're shifting goalposts yet again. nt
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
#46
I already did, then you started changing the subject and shifting goal posts, so I'm done here.
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
#55
Simple answer: of course not. I didn't say that above because I thought you were being rhetorical.nt
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
#57
what you think is not answering the question is in fact answering the question
samsingh
Jan 2015
#78
ROFL, what a hero! A role model to gunthusiasts everywhere! Thanks for sharing :) nt
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
#83
It's a very strange story all around. Beyond the author's distorted view of risk, it makes
petronius
Jan 2015
#21
That can't be true. It's all in your head. Just ask the glib sociopath gunthusiasts in this thread.
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
#85
If someone thinks that the characterization might apply to them, then they just might be right. nt
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
#93
One of my "idiotic cartoon" posts is currently #2 on The Greatest Page, with 139 recs and counting
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
#122
Your deep concern over the answer just answered your own question, to a degree.
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
#130
Cartoons can be an effective medium to convey ideas, and are often good teaching tools
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
#131
7-0 eh? Yeah, you should be ashamed. Perhaps you would feel more at home on ar15.com.
Electric Monk
Jan 2015
#105
Ehh, warmed-over McCarthy style innuendos (along with pompous self-righteousness)...
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2015
#108