....and it never once walked out and shot someone. I own pistols too. They are legally owned and I carry a permit allowing them concealed on my person. You know why? Because it is my Constitutional right to own them.
Oh, and I absolutely LOVE over-the-top, larger-than-life, knows how to work their overacting muscles, egotistical leading men. I am paying tribute to my favorite (yes more than Shatner) this week.
I expected gun control comments of course, but do not understand the immature "good ridance" comments. How childish.
What gives? Are you (negative commenters) so miserable that you have to trash someone after they've died? Especially one who hasn't done a damn thing to you, and has accomplished more in his lifetime than you'll ever dream to.
I rarely get into your political pissing contests, so stay clear of threads I generate please if you're going to try to spoil the fun. Generally they are positive and are meant to be FUN.
Fun you know? That's what happy people have to do with their time.
Off my soapbox now
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Which is all an aside to saying I concur with the above.
Life is about context. peoples contexts are different. The context of death is for respect.
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You have the biggest shotgun in the world? Wow. I'm impressed.
America will soon become dick-less and powerless like Great Britain, and her culture consumed by flavor-of-the-week ideals, and abandonment of her language and culture as well.....people in so-called first-world countries, who regard guns as something unnecessary in a paradigm which is still ruled and shaped by them, have self-preservation issues, and would justify a world of total control, as being ..."necessary"-
The same person who feeeeeels, Obama would make a great president(for a country he doesn't even fucking live in)-looking only at the surface of the package, and the instructions on the box, is enough for some with such foundation-free sensibilities, to make an "informed" and "intelligent" decision.....HORSESHIT!!!
This is really harsh- but I feel that a large percentage of any human population is either batshit insane and/or borderline retarded- I don't want this segment pointing guns at me or my family.
I feel that a large percentage of any human population is either batshit insane and/or borderline retarded
It's like Kesey said, "In any given situation, there's likely to be more dumb people than smart people." And yet you feel it appropriate to allow this community to self regulate? What part of authoritarianism are you not comfortable with?
I hope that doesn't sound too elitist, but if anyone's spent much time in YouTube comment threads - you know what I mean.
I have nothing against owning guns. I'd probably own one and hunt with it if I could just figure out a way to practice "catch and release." However, the liberty to possess guns lessens citizen's security rather than enhancing it, unless you happen to be spending most of your time in Grizzly country where the bears aren't packin'. It's always a trade-off, safety/liberty.
The one absolute caveat, DO NOT LET THE CITIZENS WITH ALL THE MONEY BE THE SAME ONES THAT OWN ALL THE GUNS, unless you want to live in that totalitarian police state I mentioned above.
unarmed mass protest is more powerful than seven rival "militias" fighting for control of the freedom. do the gun owning iraqis all form a polite society and restrict their oppresive government in a selfless act of citizenry? No.
if more americans could spend a while walking around a city where only the police and the criminals have guns, they might see the benefits of restricting gun ownership to those two groups.
To quote a famous song from a gun culture: "Every day when we get up hear a gunshot, that's the sound of an armed citizenry protecting us from an oppresive government"... err... no wait, i misquoted that somehow...
My shotgun? It actually belonged to my Dad. Growing up in a rural southern area (SC USA), it was always loaded with buckshot to take out rattlesnakes around the yard.
My dad gave most of his guns to my brothers when he was sick, but still held onto the shotgun.
On his deathbed a week before he passed, he gave the shotgun to my husband. It meant a lot to him... to both of us.
It it always unloaded, with no shells near by for curious ones to find
but nobody uses guns to overthrow the government, even if they steal your money in front of you, kill babies, and laugh about it. Well, evil people use guns to overthrow the government, but that's bad, right?
And plenty of people are in perpetual misery because of guns. And I don't need a gun to defend my family, I live in a safe town and I have a very solid door. Anyway at some point I have to leave the flat, and I am not gonna carry a gun around everywhere because the chances of tragic accident are higher than the chances of actually needing the gun and using it successfully.
And I don't need a gun to overthrow the government, I live in a country that rejected the Soviet Union with mass unarmed protest. Sadly, people died, but compared to the number of people that would have died in an "armed citizenry vs drunk russian tank formation" battle...
Just sayin.