Not trying to fight you PJ but just based on what i've read here you obviously hate(fear?) guns and seem to have little knowledge/experience with them. I could be all wet but i kinda doubt it. I've been around them since i was about 7-8. My dad was competitive shooter and growing up we were always gun club members. I learned total safety rules and how to use them by the time i was nine. They are not the boogie man as so many seem to believe. I've watched every single piece of gun legislation written in the 50yrs and none have done anything to slow the crime rate. Sorry but that's how it is. A gun-free U.S. is nothing but pure fantasy.
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Interesting data. https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/tpfv9318.pdf More:https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u....019/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8.xls Look at 'blunt objects'. They are used as often if not more often than rifles. Guess we better outlaw hammers, ballbats, and lead pipe. Also, while not making light of suicides on average they do make up more than half of gun deaths. This number further hi-lites how bad the mental health care is in the US.
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ROTFLMAO! And Harvard research and beliefs are so totally skewed toward Liberalism that it isn't even close to comparison. Total whack jobs from top to bottom and everyone in between. (except for a small percentage who get muzzled, expelled, or mocked)
Harvard Survey: Only Seven Percent Of Incoming Students Identify As Conservative
We have been discussing the rising intolerance for conservative, libertarian, and Republican students and faculty on campuses across the country. Faculties rarely hire conservative or libertarian p…
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Harvard Faculty Survey Reveals Striking Ideological Bias, But More Balanced Higher Education Options Are Emerging
Only 16 percent of Harvard faculty members classify their political views as “moderate," and just one percent indicate that their views are “conservative.” Harvard is hardly alone in its political bias.
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I don't own any, but was an expert marksman Army paratrooper *cough* years ago - does that count?
Anyway, you don't need to know anything technical about guns to know that their proliferation, even among law-abiding citizens, is dangerous.
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Yes, faculty and students at all the most prestigious universities are overwhelmingly liberal (and anti-gun proliferation).
Gee, I wonder what that means...
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Wow!
I'm really surprised that an ex paratrooper does not have a firearm for at least home protection.
I'm an ex Marine and I have several weapons on hand.
Stupid and brainwashed would pretty much cover it. Don't you wish everyone in the country was that way? Sounds like some other countries around the world none of us would want to live in. You might. Move to North Korea.Yes, faculty and students at all the most prestigious universities are overwhelming liberal (and anti-gun proliferation).
Gee, I wonder what that means...
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I was always good with firearms, even before and after the Army - I just never thought the danger/protection balance favored home ownership, and never had a fetish for them. They have their place, but I don't rely on Remington, Smith & Wesson or their marketing arm, the NRA, to tell me what it is.
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I wonder how many LGBT folks would continue to 'come out' if they lived in Gaza?
The thing about that is that here in Maine, we have a long, long history of hunting and outdoorsmanship (is that a word?). Young people were brought up with guns in their households, and taught the proper respect for them, over multiple generations. Thus the high per capita numbers, here.
When I went to high school (admittedly a very long time ago), a large number of vehicles in the parking lot had rifles in gun racks in the rear windows. Student vehicles. It wasn't any big deal. We were brought up that way, and taught respect from an early age.
(I don't own a gun. I used to have my father's last rifle that he had, but I sold it once I had kids, as I didn't want it in my home, and having to worry about that. There were rifles in my home all my life, prior to that. I love to shoot, but have no desire to have a weapon in my home.)
The scarier part for me, as a lifelong Mainer, is the large number of people who purchase guns with little to no training, and likely as a result, a whole lot less respect for them. It's a microcosm of the larger world around us, I suppose.
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Yes, God's Word was given as an 'instruction manual' for believers and non believers alike.
I don't believe one bit of this. You would have been a conscientious objector with those beliefs and thinking. You were
"Army" age during Viet Nam. Smack in the middle of it. Where did you train, where were you sent, where were you stationed along with rank and title?
First, I want to thank you for your service to our country. Where we depart is you think your opinion trumps everyone's rights according to the constitution. But you have the right to express that opinion based on said constitution. I respect that. But I won't live my life according to your views. That's my right.
And you think your opinion about what those rights are trumps mine. Welcome to debate.
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I think you need to as you live in your Walter Mitty made up fantasy world to suit the situation and lies.
Just because he said and posted it doesn't mean it's true. If you knew his history better, you would be much more
leery.
It might be a little hard to take out 20 or so people at a pool hall with a blunt object, Almost everyone playing has a blunt object in their hand. However, I don't see myself defending with my Tascarella.
I remember when it took skill to shoot a gun, one bullet a time. It was about safety training, gun maintenance, how to stand aim, using the sights. Today no skill required, just spray the bullets. I guess we should make hand grenades legal.
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