(August 16, 2022 at 3:40 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(August 15, 2022 at 8:57 pm)Brian37 Wrote: You really love your pretzel logic don't you? No most people do not buy a weapon with attaching responsibility to it. I'd only agree people may go into it with the intent of being responsible, but if you had bothered to read my post, complacency doesn't give a shit about your intent. It only takes one spit second to fuck up, and there is no rewind button on a bullet. Again, if most people were responsible as you falsely want to believe, we would have the epidemic level no other comparative western wealthy nation peer has. None of our allies come close to our stupidity and slavish worship.

81 million Americans own 393 million firearms. In 2020, a little over 45 000 USians were killed by privately owned firearms (that number includes ALL gun deaths - murder, suicide, accident).

While 45 000 is far too many and a tragic number, if most people were as irresponsible as you claim, that number would be far, far higher. I mean, mind-wobblingly high.

Since the number of firearm deaths is such a tiny percentage of the number of people who own guns, the only reasonable conclusion that can be drawn is that the thundering majority of gun owners do - as OLB said - have a very real appreciation of the responsibility that comes with owning firearms.

Boru

(August 16, 2022 at 7:32 am)onlinebiker Wrote:

(August 15, 2022 at 8:32 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Yeah, they're more likely to do so for the purpose of actually killing someone with it than pretending to do so. And yet you balk at any proposal that tries to keep guns out of the hands of people who actually want to cause harm.

I have never bought a gun with the intention of killing someone with it. Nor has anyone else I know.

(August 16, 2022 at 7:55 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote:

(August 16, 2022 at 7:32 am)onlinebiker Wrote: I have never bought a gun with the intention of killing someone with it. Nor has anyone else I know.

-and yet... that's the number one reason for purchasing a firearm, according to people purchasing firearms.  The thing that the entire industry, itself, has gone all in on.  I guess they didn't have much choice, for their part.  Not alot of hunters anymore.

Do you think it might be a problem when that's the reason that people are buying so many guns, when that's the thing that manufacturers are devoting the majority of their productive capacity and marketing dollar to?  When the politicians of that very same gun buying demographic are actively campaigning on post apocalyptic hellscape america and the fear of the other?  

Or is it just actors with guns that are dangerous idiots...who shouldn't be allowed near guns?

(August 16, 2022 at 8:30 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Why would I move to england, loon?  I hear they wouldn't let me play with my guns over there.  Besides, they're all too british.  

At any rate, I'm glad to see that you acknowledge and acknowledge that you were very well aware that people do in fact buy guns for that reason, and have no problem saying so..despite your claim to have never met such a person...which is almost certainly false.  You probably have one for self defense..yourself.  Is that a problem, or is it only actors with guns that are dangerous idiots who have no business near a gun?

I think this shit is hilarious.  When you consider a nut who buys a gun for the explicit purpose of killing some motherfucker you're all "our cold dead hands"...but when you think bout alec baldwin...it turns your heart to gun grabbing.  Do we need to get a doll in here so you can tell us where alec baldwin touched you?

(August 16, 2022 at 8:20 am)onlinebiker Wrote:

(August 16, 2022 at 7:55 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: -and yet... that's the number one reason for purchasing a firearm, according to people purchasing firearms.  The thing that the entire industry, itself, has gone all in on.  I guess they didn't have much choice, for their part.  Not alot of hunters anymore.

Do you think it might be a problem when that's the reason that people are buying so many guns, when that's the thing that manufacturers are devoting the majority of their productive capacity and marketing dollar to?  When the politicians of that very same gun buying demographic are actively campaigning on post apocalyptic hellscape america and the fear of the other?  

Or is it just actors with guns that are dangerous idiots...who shouldn't be allowed near guns?

People buy guns for self defense. If you don' t see that as different frim buying a gun with the intention of killing someone - move to England.

You will fit right in.

(August 16, 2022 at 12:03 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: I bet you have guns like all those posing fucks in cowboy hats have cattle....

You obviously know shit about self defense.

I find it likely the closest you' ve ever been to a gun is sniffing a bicycle seat after a cop sat on it.....

(August 16, 2022 at 1:17 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote:

(August 16, 2022 at 12:03 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: I bet you have guns like all those posing fucks in cowboy hats have cattle....

You obviously know shit about self defense.

I find it likely the closest you' ve ever been to a gun is sniffing a bicycle seat after a cop sat on it.....

Say lunatic shit....convince people you're a loon?

Know why I think you come here, to these boards, and say silly shit like that to people like me?  Because you actually can't find any of the people your paranoid delusions are full of.  It's got you reaching for alec baldwins gun by proxy.  Fuckin grunts get recast in your mind as crypto gun grabbers who have no real understanding of what it means to start a fucking firefight in your home.  F, for effort.

Got all the self defense I need bud, it's called a lock.  You put them on doors, they even make them for windows.

(August 16, 2022 at 12:59 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:

(August 16, 2022 at 8:20 am)onlinebiker Wrote: People buy guns for self defense. If you don' t see that as different frim buying a gun with the intention of killing someone - move to England.

You will fit right in.

Worth noting, if you have any kids In your home (which I know you personally don’t), that gun’s far more likely to kill those kids. And most often like this.





And this is why I keep assuming that if you store guns, you keep them unloaded.