Gun Owners and Non-Gun Owners should come to a Meeting of the Minds

[hikerchick]

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I am glad that you didn't mention ethnicity because if I had a mob of people attacking me, I don't think I would care what color they were.

 

[warmfuzzies]

Wow. Wow. Wow.

ETA I think I need to go shooting..... Anyone wanna come over to my place and shoot bottles?

 

[antlers]

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Would love to if I could find the ammo!

Seems like physisists (sp?) have succeeded in turning lead into gold. At least value wise!

 

[WalkingWolf]

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Interesting how perceptions can differ. From where I'm sitting it appears that our rights and our Constitution have never been so threatened.

I have never had more confidence in their complete protection. Far as I know, this is the first president who was an expert on constitutional law.

Wish y'all would calm down about it and stop buying up all the ammo, too. I can't even target practice any more because bullets are so dang expensive and hard to find. Have to save 'em for them 'yotes.

Who mentioned the current president?? But as far as that is concerned he backed the DC handgun ban and the handgun ban in Chicago. Not to constitutional ehhhh?

 

[gypsy2621]

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Sounds like you learned a lesson the hard way, lucky the outcome was not a bad one. Anybody and everybody before taking on the responsibility of gun ownership should be acquainted with all safety rules. One of those rules is before operating or purchasing a firearm is a full safety inspection. You should have never purchased without testing the trigger pull on a unloaded firearm preferably in a loading barrel or bucket of sand. Every store or shop selling firearms should have one.

This is the same responsibility before purchasing or operating a motor vehicle or any other device, vehicle, or machinery. Education is the key to safety not banning. When in the military a full safety inspection is done every time you receive a weapon from the armory, and return it. This is each and every time even if it it the same weapon, on the same day, same hour whatever.

The responsible thing for the government to do for firearm safety is bring education to the young as the CMP still does but is not allowed in schools anymore. Just like sex our young should not be getting firearm education from TV.

You know as well as I do dry firing a gun really does not give you the correct feel for the amount of pull needed everytime.
I am talking 15 years ago before the saftey feature that are now in place were even thought of.
15 years ago no Gun Shop had a firing range, nor did they even have a place where you could safely step out a door and fire into the woods.
I fully understood safety, I fully understood the ramifications of the action as it played out. It scared me and still does to this day I still have said pistol but I rarely ever use it.
I learned a valuable lesson that day and it has stuck with me. I now do everything much differntly, then again I havent purchased a hand gun nor rifle in a long time. no need, I have what I need. Should I ever feel the need for another one I will definately check it out better.

 

[warmfuzzies]

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Would love to if I could find the ammo!

Seems like physisists (sp?) have succeeded in turning lead into gold. At least value wise!

True. Wanna go bow hunting????

I never have but would love to try....

 

[WalkingWolf]

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Would love to if I could find the ammo!

Seems like physisists (sp?) have succeeded in turning lead into gold. At least value wise!

True. Wanna go bow hunting????

I never have but would love to try....

Target shooting with a bow is an exceptional upper body workout. Depending on the length of the range it doesn't hurt the legs either. A down hill range is great as it puts stress on the legs both up hill and down hill recovering the arrows.

When I was young a teenager successfully defended his home with a compound bow. Killing one intruder and sending the second to the hospital. The power of a bow as a self defense should never be underestimated. And I am much more accurate with a bow in low light than a firearm. Instinct shooting is much more natural with a bow. A bow is also a very good option for predators at close to moderate range. But they take regular practice, I am thinking of getting one with a laser mount for predators.

 

[warmfuzzies]

We have one, it is just WAY to heavy of a pull for me. I can get it but i could never hold it long enough to aim. It is something like 80 lbs.

It would be a good workout, though, and very fun!

 

[Reinbeau]

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Would love to if I could find the ammo!

Seems like physisists (sp?) have succeeded in turning lead into gold. At least value wise!

There's no lack of ammo here for us - we stocked up because we saw this all coming. I don't know why Buster can't find .22 ammo, though, any Walmart around here that still sells ammo has plenty of it.

 

[fowltemptress]

I understand why the question would be asked about why someone should want to carry a gun everywhere they go, when they know they won't be traveling through bad neighborhoods and whatnot. I guess it's the same reason I wear a seatbelt, even when we're just driving a few blocks down empty streets.

My mother was shopping at HEB in a very nice neighborhood with one of my brothers, who was a toddler at the time. The parking lot had several other people in it, a few of them quite near her. It was Sunday, so many had on church clothes. A pleasant looking man in nice clothing walked up to my mother and grabbed her, telling her if she wanted to see her boy alive again she'd give him her wallet. My mother said that the worst was looking around the parking lot and seeing people looking over at them, and doing nothing . . . no one even ran into the store to call the police or anything, she had to do that herself when the man had left (these were the days before cell phones). I'm willing to wager anyone with a gun on them would not have stood around gawking. My mother didn't bring her gun that day because nothing could be safer than our crowded neighborhood HEB on a bright and sunny Sunday morning. Go figure.