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Agreeing more with you than you do with yourself.

BRC
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Actually, there is an organization, Friends of NRA, that does just that. Raise a good bit of money, plow it back into education programs like Eddie Eagle, who goes to elementary schools to teach gun safety to little ones. I’m not deeply involved, but do throw a few shekels their way every year.

If going to put people on a list that takes away some of their rights, then need some due process for that.

From the content of this thread, my conclusion: 99 44/100% of all the discussion about gun control is just hot air, political nonsense, a deliberate attempt to manipulate, scare, and confuse some people. Then, sure, the media is complicit because they always want a story that is scary so that they can get clicks and ad dollars.

Maybe much of the rest of the noise is an effort to shake down the NRA: So, a politician tells the NRA that they will shut up about gun control, e.g., banning “assault weapons”, if the NRA makes a campaign contribution.

If the anti-gun people are just manipulating and/or shaking down people, then there isn’t a lot of reason to be reasonable, show them good data, try to reach agreement, etc.

Soon they will give up on guns and find something else to scream about.

That in response to Orlando Obama talks about guns but not about radical Islamic terrorism is upsetting, sickening, really, but (A) it’s what I’ve come to expect from him, (B) I’m getting used to it, and (C) he will be out of the White House in January.

I’ll consider controls if you are willing to do that. Never going to happen in the U.S. so therefore……people need to shut their mouths.

Honestly not I was shaking inside and later

I am jealous.

I see your schwartz is bigger than mine.

Agree it all depends on response tone and body langue. One reason that CCW should require “active shooter” training. At least one day. Denver was my third so I did not respond rapidly I opened my jacket and simply stated in Spanish ” I practice, Do you? the words seemed to enter his mind slowly, 3.2.1. RUN

True alphas use a gun like a carpenter uses a pencil.

I won’t argue to compare our happenstances of bad luck with its proximity to violence.

There is something eerie to these situations, the way the people move their body language the angles, the positioning, what they ask you. It’s almost as if they are trying to convince you of something?

To me it’s amazing how much luck is involved when the glass jar of marbles shatters and they scatter.

The only reason I wasn’t shot through my rear side window was because the guys couldn’t drive stick. They couldn’t get away.

I would have preferred a beating. Everyone would.

BTW, I love question marks?

FINE? Hong Kong Doesn’t count? It’s not America?

Would you like dovetails with your soft Pine?

Tea?

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The comparison to the Brits is well made because we are a free people today because we did, in fact, have guns back in 1775. We fought the Brits until 1783 — most people don’t know how long the American Revolution lasted.

They dispatched the most professional army of its time, the largest navy and intended to give us a good scolding. King George thinking he had a riot on his hands rather than a movement which had built up over 20+ years.

The right to bear arms springs from the right of a free people to defend themselves against tyranny. The Founding Fathers made this abundantly clear and trusted the citizenry.

Carrying a weapon is also a fixture in some parts of society and is a simple work tool. A rancher in Texas carries a rifle to shoot coyotes and other varmints and a gun to shoot snakes like a carpenter carries a hammer.

As to personal and physical safety, we differ to an extent not able to be adequately expressed in our humble English language. I do not intend to ever sacrifice my safety to the lowest common denominator of violence. While I may not choose to exercise this right, I do not intend to ever give it up.

I, of course, have been a long time advocate of dueling and see guns as an ideal tool with which to resolve disputes. Who wouldn’t?

The big point of the post is there are a lot of things we can do on the crawl, walk, run continuum to make progress on this subject.

Gun confiscation is not one of them.

BRC
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