BS: Gun ownership is insincere

Subject: BS: Gun ownership is insincere
From: Mrrzy
Date: 03 Aug 15 - 06:14 PM

I am inspired by the scene in Heist, where a young punk points a gun at Gene Hackman, and girlfriend says He's not gonna shoot you, and HackMan says then he shouldna oughta point a gun at me. It's insincere.

People in well-regulated militias can get guns through the militias, to keep the 2nd amendment alive.

Everybody else gets asked a single screening question: Whom they intend to kill.

*I'm gonna kill deer - Okay, you can buy a rifle.
*I'm gonna kill myself - not okay, call ambulance.
*I'm gonna kill my (mother-in-law, neighbor, what-have-you) - not okay, call cops
*I'm not gonna kill anyone - great, then you don't need a gun.
*I'm afraid there might be someone I want to kill in the future - well, when that rolls around, we'll talk about it then. Right now you don't need a gun.

I know it won't fly but the insincerity of all guns no regulations was bugging me. So violence, such ammo, wow.

Subject: RE: BS: Gun ownership is insincere
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 03 Aug 15 - 06:35 PM

I would add:

*I'm gonna shoot paper targets - Okay, here's a nice pellet gun. You don't need an AK47 to shoot holes in pieces of paper.

Subject: RE: BS: Gun ownership is insincere
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 03 Aug 15 - 07:06 PM

*But I really want to shoot targets with an AK47, not a pellet gun - Great, here's a membership to a shooting range where you can rent an AK47. You can shoot it all you want. You just can't take it home.

Subject: RE: BS: Gun ownership is insincere
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 03 Aug 15 - 07:44 PM

I'm going to tell this story because it's interesting.

Last week, in the small town of Jonesburg, MO, some chickens and a dog went missing. People began keeping their children close to home. Then a woman heard her dog barking in the night, and upon investigating, found a 14-foot Burmese python in her yard.

She called her father-in-law, who came over and shot the python with a shotgun.

One news source said it weighed 160 pounds, another merely said "over a hundred pounds."   

It's chilling to realize that somebody would be so stupid as to release such a creature.

Subject: RE: BS: Gun ownership is insincere
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 03 Aug 15 - 08:58 PM

a friend of mine passed something like that after colonic irrigation. luckily no one shot it.

Subject: RE: BS: Gun ownership is insincere
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Aug 15 - 09:27 PM

You have to take responsibility for what you keep as a "pet." Florida has a massive problem.

Subject: RE: BS: Gun ownership is insincere
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 03 Aug 15 - 11:31 PM

I bought a bolt action hunting rifle back in the 1990's to shoot paper targets. I haven't fired it in years. I suppose if I took it out now for self-defense real gun nuts would just die from laughing. When I got it, told a couple of my left wing leaning friends about it. They both looked around and said, "can I shoot it sometime?" Not sure if any of that makes me insincere or not.

Subject: RE: BS: Gun ownership is insincere
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 04 Aug 15 - 10:43 AM

Hello,Rap. Thanks for paying honest attention.

Last week, people in Milwaukee were seeing a lion loose in the city, no doubt abandoned by somebody. I hope they can capture it without killing it. We had a lion loose in the deep woods east of Kansas City a couple-or-three years ago. It had been abandoned by a couple who broke up.

I can't remember whether it was captured or destroyed, I'm sorry to say.

(I'm aware of the problems in Florida.)

Subject: RE: BS: Gun ownership is insincere
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Aug 15 - 10:51 AM

The Chicago cops shot a mountain lion (cougar, puma) in the Chicago Loop a few years back. Illinois Dept. of Natural Resources says that there are no such things in Illinois, even though the animal was identified by people from the zoo (not one of theirs!).

Subject: RE: BS: Gun ownership is insincere
From: Don Firth
Date: 04 Aug 15 - 02:54 PM

Come years ago, a cougar (puma, mountain lion) was spotted in Discovery Park, in the northwest part of Seattle. How it got there was anybody's guess, but a railroad track ran past the park, and speculation had it that it had ridden in on top of a boxcar or something and leaped off as the train (moving relatively slowly) passed through the west side of the park.

Bad! Lots of people have picnics in the park, or go strolling, walking the dog, and/or berry-picking.

Animal control went out the park, found the animal, and nailed it with a tranquilizer dart. The Woodland Park Zoo already had a couple of cougars, so the animal control folks took it up into the north Cascade mountains (its natural habitat) and turned it loose.

Fair enough.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Gun ownership is insincere
From: Don Firth
Date: 04 Aug 15 - 02:59 PM

'Scuse me. "Some years ago...."

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Gun ownership is insincere
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 04 Aug 15 - 11:43 PM

I went to a talk by a man from our Department of Conservation, and he said almost all lions spotted near civilization have been abandoned by owners. Often their claws have been removed and their fangs filed down, so they cannot hunt.

Be sure to call the authorities if you spot such an animal or even think you may have.

Subject: RE: BS: Gun ownership is insincere
From: Teribus
Date: 05 Aug 15 - 06:49 AM

Perhaps someone from across the pond could clarify this for me:

"People in well-regulated militias can get guns through the militias, to keep the 2nd amendment alive."

I thought that the idea behind the 2nd amendment was that private citizens in the former colonies had the right to bear arms in order that they could defend themselves and so that, should the need arise, they could form "well-regulated militias" to defend the country.

I was also very interested in this bit:

"Everybody else gets asked a single screening question: Whom they intend to kill."

Are you sure about this? It is a question I have never been asked. I have always been asked to justify why it was I required any particular weapon which in my case was fairly simple - hunting.

Subject: RE: BS: Gun ownership is insincere
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 05 Aug 15 - 07:41 PM

I forgot about the targets, thanks!

Subject: RE: BS: Gun ownership is insincere
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 06 Aug 15 - 02:45 AM

*I'm gonna kill deer for food - Okay, you can buy a rifle.
*I'm gonna kill deer for fun - Get some paper targets.

DC