Gun Control & RKBA

MicaelS

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13. Given the way some urbanites react to gun ownership

Reply to SecularMotion (Reply #4)

Wed May 30, 2012, 10:44 AM

May 2012

Why would you tell a perfect stranger you own a gun or guns? Especially a pollster. I wouldn't tell them a damn thing.

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A new kind of gun-toting American [View all] SecularMotion May 2012 OP

Sounds like they have a criminal problem, not a gun problem. GreenStormCloud May 2012 #1

Great, "law-abiding" citizens firing back at a car in a neighborhood. Hoyt May 2012 #3

bzzzzzzzzzz Glaug-Eldare May 2012 #8

Your buddy is one who suggested "if everyone were armed" (the wet dream of gun culture, particularly Hoyt May 2012 #15

But you are the one who twisted my words. GreenStormCloud May 2012 #16

Bzzzzzzzzzzzt, wrong again, this is what he actually said: rl6214 May 2012 #17

I think my interpretation is pretty close to what he and you would like. But thanks for obfuscating. Hoyt May 2012 #18

Correcting you with the exact quote = "obfuscating"? Got it. Johnny Rico May 2012 #20

"Your interpretation" is warped and WRONG as usual rl6214 May 2012 #27

Do "best"? Common Sense Party May 2012 #29

Anthony would know that if he paid more attention to current events. ManiacJoe May 2012 #21

The problem is criminals with guns. safeinOhio May 2012 #34

couple of problems gejohnston May 2012 #36

NFA transference tax was set high because of safeinOhio May 2012 #40

You have not been paying attention. ManiacJoe May 2012 #42

I'm talking mandatory background checks safeinOhio May 2012 #43

Most folks don't mind the mandatory checks. ManiacJoe May 2012 #50

The proposed ban was because of the gangster connection gejohnston May 2012 #44

Keep in mind, also... beevul May 2012 #37

Wording of the law can safeinOhio May 2012 #39

Not the same thing gejohnston May 2012 #45

"they could make the criminals afraid to do drive-by shooting." ellisonz May 2012 #22

You think criminals want to get shot at? GreenStormCloud May 2012 #24

You think this is Northfield, Minnesota in 1876? ellisonz May 2012 #26

How many more people would the James gang have gone on to kill... GreenStormCloud May 2012 #28

Please don't shoot up the streets. n/t ellisonz May 2012 #31

If some thug is shooting at me, I will return fire. GreenStormCloud May 2012 #33

See this post, didn't stop that person. safeinOhio May 2012 #35

He was drunk. Nothing is 100% GreenStormCloud May 2012 #41

The aricle makes no mention of who the criminals (shooters) are but bluerum May 2012 #2

Youth social clubs, and neighborhood civic organizations... -..__... May 2012 #10

Maybe the NRA and AAA have teamed up. Remmah2 May 2012 #12

Gun ownership is declining SecularMotion May 2012 #4

"Self-Reported Gun Ownership in U.S. Is Highest Since 1993" hack89 May 2012 #9

No fair! You're supposed to only use the Joyce Foundation funded study from U of C DonP May 2012 #11

Given the way some urbanites react to gun ownership MicaelS May 2012 #13

And there are many like you, but Starboard Tack May 2012 #32

Are people that gullible????? MicaelS May 2012 #46

If some stranger called asking me to describe my home and personal security Starboard Tack May 2012 #48

I frequently get calls telling me I am elegible to lower my credit card interest rates. GreenStormCloud May 2012 #49

one in five would put us gejohnston May 2012 #14

Excellent response to this screed follows the article ProgressiveProfessor May 2012 #5

Sounds like the old kind, that cause the new kind to carry. ileus May 2012 #6

Sounds like Seattle needs to clean the shit from it's streets... -..__... May 2012 #7

Seattle, the only place I've been to McDonalds where you had to have a coin for the restroom ileus May 2012 #30

Looks like the gang Meiko May 2012 #19

And the courts need to quite showing tolerance for criminal behavior. N/T GreenStormCloud May 2012 #25

Correct Meiko May 2012 #38

It seems it's an old kind of gun-totting American. Gang members. Atypical Liberal May 2012 #23

I missed the new part gejohnston May 2012 #47