Sat Jul 21, 2012, 11:46 PM

Where I live, I have never once considered needing a gun for any reason

Hunting, nope I don't kill animals. It isn't sport if they can't shoot back.

Personal protection, nope, I don't go were I need to consider my personal safety beforehand.

Paranoia, none, the few times I've need to defend myself in my life my fists did quite well.

Companionship, nah, most of the people I have known who owned guns NEEDED to show me their guns. They wound up being unknown real quick.

You can tell me all you want that the images of the gun crowd are stereotypes, but they are reality. None of my friends needed to get their mice and keyboards and go protest Bush like the gun crowd needs to bring their guns to protest Obama. Who the fuck do they think they are? If they had done that to Bush, they'd be in Guantanamo.

Sorry defenders of the 2nd Amendment, unless Aliens attack or the Zombie apocalypse occurs, no need for dozens of guns and thousands of round of ammo, unless of course, you're going to war against the US Government, but you'd lose pretty quick.

I'm in the last quarter, I'd rather not worry about my guns. I'm more worried about my fiber now.

Spend the value of one gun on helping the poor in your town, it goes a lot farther than profits for the gun makers, and won't kill anyone.

'Night.

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Where I live, I have never once considered needing a gun for any reason (Original post)	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	OP
Thanks for posting this.	senseandsensibility	Jul 2012	#1
Sigh...	-..__...	Jul 2012	#2
We can post our opinions have a problem with that?	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#18
Americans Living Abroad..	cyclezealot	Jul 2012	#64
It's turned into a nation driven by fear and paranoia IMO. n/t	RKP5637	Jul 2012	#128
it's BEEN turned into a nation driven by fear and paranoia	DrDan	Jul 2012	#133
Yep, exactly. I've been around a long time and I don't ever recall this	RKP5637	Jul 2012	#138
So is this a picture of you with a hangover	pennylane100	Jul 2012	#84
^^This	TheCruces	Jul 2012	#102
Neither have I,	elleng	Jul 2012	#3
I had a friend in college who liked to shoot skeet	proud2BlibKansan	Jul 2012	#7
We didn't do anything like moving targets;	elleng	Jul 2012	#14
Me too.	proud2BlibKansan	Jul 2012	#4
You have every right to not exercise your rights under the second amendment.	GarroHorus	Jul 2012	#5
Where does he say that in the OP?	proud2BlibKansan	Jul 2012	#8
And where did I say that anywhere?	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#19
It's more your broad brush smears of 'paranoia', etc.	AtheistCrusader	Jul 2012	#76
This message was hidden by jury decision.	upaloopa	Jul 2012	#35
I own no guns, but everybody I know how does has two words for you.	GarroHorus	Jul 2012	#37
Restrictions are not taking away guns. That was a bit extreme wasn't it.	upaloopa	Jul 2012	#45
Then I want restrictions on your first amendment rights	GarroHorus	Jul 2012	#46
When was the last time someone was killed with a word to the head? n/t	wakemewhenitsover	Jul 2012	#55
6 MILLION people died as a result of the words in Mien Kampf NT	Trunk Monkey	Jul 2012	#60
Right, are you relating the US to Nazi Germany in the 30's?	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#73
Closer to 12 million, actually	Scootaloo	Jul 2012	#74
This message was self-deleted by its author	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#78
Wrong reply to sorry	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#80
Well if it is OK to demand restrictions on the right to post,	pennylane100	Jul 2012	#91
You gonna answer or hide?	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#50
If the poster can't be a bully	Tsiyu	Jul 2012	#61
They're all the same, every last one of them	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#75
Indeed	Tsiyu	Jul 2012	#86
.....	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#97
We have the right to work toward sensible gun control.	kestrel91316	Jul 2012	#147
right !	Harry Back	Jul 2012	#154
Where I live now firearms are mandatory if you want to survive	ProgressiveProfessor	Jul 2012	#6
If I lived out in the country, I'd probably want a gun too.	proud2BlibKansan	Jul 2012	#10
Its not the gun, its the person	ProgressiveProfessor	Jul 2012	#29
Yes. The argument of defending yourself against the government is ridiculous.	onehandle	Jul 2012	#9
Red Dawn was mediocre at best but that doesn't mean that the poorly equipped defending their own land	TheKentuckian	Jul 2012	#66
What if those who privately own all those planes and anti-armor weapons side with the government?	Hippo_Tron	Jul 2012	#105
Then you have an insurgency to be put down rather than a rebellion if	TheKentuckian	Jul 2012	#110
Sorry but once again, people with small arms can't take out the US military	Hippo_Tron	Jul 2012	#125
I live in a high crime area and I am disabled	Mojorabbit	Jul 2012	#11
I see your point...	FarPoint	Jul 2012	#12
I am 67 years old	Speck Tater	Jul 2012	#13
I grew up in Chicago, lived in Washington D,C. in the 70's, I lived in Los Angeles during the 80's.	xtraxritical	Jul 2012	#43
Born, raised, lived in NYC in the 50s through 80s	HockeyMom	Jul 2012	#131
I would be a little worried about the house surrounded by chain link with the razor wire on top.	pennylane100	Jul 2012	#96
Yep, same here. That's more than a little freaky. n/t	RKP5637	Jul 2012	#134
I am 50 years old...	EX500rider	Jul 2012	#120
Seat belts, fire extinguishers, ... etc.	Speck Tater	Jul 2012	#145
neither do guns put peoples lives in danger by just being present...	EX500rider	Jul 2012	#148
Have you ever read about the little kid bringing his daddy's gun to school, happens all the time	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#151
apprently you've never had squirrels in your attic.	craigmatic	Jul 2012	#15
No, but I have had rats under the house.	RebelOne	Jul 2012	#143
You should consider yourself fortunate...	Reasonable_Argument	Jul 2012	#16
Yada yada yada	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#22
I'm just pointing out...	Reasonable_Argument	Jul 2012	#24
You deserve snark if you think the government needs second amendment remedies	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#26
Hardly	Reasonable_Argument	Jul 2012	#30
Right	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#32
I didn't say	Reasonable_Argument	Jul 2012	#36
You guy's have appropriate screen names!	xtraxritical	Jul 2012	#47
The government has planes and tanks,	Trunk Monkey	Jul 2012	#40
That's because we've exercised a great deal of restraint in those countries...	Hippo_Tron	Jul 2012	#72
Well	Reasonable_Argument	Jul 2012	#77
You serious?	Historyprof77132	Jul 2012	#87
Sir	Reasonable_Argument	Jul 2012	#89
I know the idea behind the 2nd Amendment, but the fact remains, and I live in the south so I	Historyprof77132	Jul 2012	#109
This trumps stupid gun owners marching on the capitol any day	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#152
They all have the same fantasy, over throw the government, and then what?	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#93
Hardly	Reasonable_Argument	Jul 2012	#95
No, it's not a numbers game	Hippo_Tron	Jul 2012	#99
In an occupation	Reasonable_Argument	Jul 2012	#100
Technology is light years ahead of where it was in World War II	Hippo_Tron	Jul 2012	#104
Doesn't it suck teaching history to so called history buffs?	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#106
There is really no need to be so nasty in your replies to people. They are fellow Dems after all.nt	Mojorabbit	Jul 2012	#112
Guns, Guns, Guns, Guns, Guns, Guns, Guns, Guns,	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#115
The restraint you are talking about,	pennylane100	Jul 2012	#98
Where did I say there's anything virtuous about what we're doing in Afghanistan?	Hippo_Tron	Jul 2012	#101
+ 10000	orpupilofnature57	Jul 2012	#129
This message was hidden by jury decision.	proudgunowner	Jul 2012	#17
NO WHERE in my OP do I say you can't	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#23
"More Fiber, Less Guns". Great bumpersticker! K and R	NRaleighLiberal	Jul 2012	#20
DU Rec and kick	madinmaryland	Jul 2012	#21
where i live i have never considered buying a sports car due to the terrain	loli phabay	Jul 2012	#25
Where do I say you can't buy a sports car?	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#27
never siad you did was saying like you never needed a gun i never needed a sportscar	loli phabay	Jul 2012	#31
I never wrote what you're implying so just stop	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#33
pretty sure this is what you wrote,	loli phabay	Jul 2012	#39
This-----isn't----about---you	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#49
lol so its about you, you wrote something i wrote back.	loli phabay	Jul 2012	#51
We're done	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#53
okay for the win	loli phabay	Jul 2012	#54
The country is awash in guns	Iwillnevergiveup	Jul 2012	#28
I don't go were I need to consider my personal safety beforehand.	Trunk Monkey	Jul 2012	#34
OK genius, how many people had guns OTHER than the shooter who broke in?	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#38
I think you miss the point	Trunk Monkey	Jul 2012	#42
THIS ISN'T ABOUT YOU	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#48
THIS ISN'T ABOUT YOU	Trunk Monkey	Jul 2012	#59
Sad little flower you are	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#68
Serious question	Trunk Monkey	Jul 2012	#85
excuse me for	handmade34	Jul 2012	#140
I've lived all over Texas and 7 other states. I inherited two shotguns from my dad, and they	mbperrin	Jul 2012	#41
OH and PS, I have a thick skin	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#44
Excellent advice, no use getting obsessed on inanimate objects. Have a good night.	freshwest	Jul 2012	#52
I've never felt the need for a gun	taught_me_patience	Jul 2012	#56
li live in BFE, nearest neighbour a thousand yards away, thousands of acres of woods around	loli phabay	Jul 2012	#58
Good for you, friend.	flvegan	Jul 2012	#57
As is your right	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#71
+1	obamanut2012	Jul 2012	#136
How fortunate for you.	Zax2me	Jul 2012	#62
Excuse me, where did I usurp your rights or say I wanted to?	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#65
Yes. You did.	Zax2me	Jul 2012	#88
Then move, Jesus it's that easy	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#90
I'll take you up on that. Run it through the "plagiarize machine"...	Marengo	Jul 2012	#119
there are good reasons	handmade34	Jul 2012	#142
I remember an argument I had with a fellow from Israel years ago	Scootaloo	Jul 2012	#67
He's just doing his duty good little doobie that he is	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#70
Hey now... I've never met a doobie that I didn't like	Scootaloo	Jul 2012	#79
Where i lived, guns were a necessity...	Scootaloo	Jul 2012	#63
The problem is that the gun industry wants it to be a cult object to sell more guns	Hippo_Tron	Jul 2012	#81
I'm not even sure about that	Scootaloo	Jul 2012	#82
Maybe you don’t own 20 hammers or saws, but that’s not true for everybody.	Mugu	Jul 2012	#155
The Jungian Shadow. They fetishize guns because they feel a lack of power...	Odin2005	Jul 2012	#113
I tend to dream about horsepower.....	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#124
Well, if you go to movie theaters...	regnaD kciN	Jul 2012	#69
Come to my state	Historyprof77132	Jul 2012	#83
So no one else should be able to have one because you've never felt the need or desire?	WillowTree	Jul 2012	#92
Uh 'excuse me no where do I say that, why write words I didn't write?	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#94
Bloomy hasn't either, his bodyguards have machineguns.	Tejas	Jul 2012	#103
If you are a liberal/progressive and DON’T have a gun(s)	eliminerlesud	Jul 2012	#107
Only one response to a post like this.	JNelson6563	Jul 2012	#108
I'm willing to be you own a lot of things that you don't 'need'.	Edweird	Jul 2012	#111
OK, one last time, I haven't dictated shit, sorry you take it that way	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#117
Are people even allowed to have guns in the place where you live?	slackmaster	Jul 2012	#114
Why is that important to you?	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#116
I'm just curious	slackmaster	Jul 2012	#118
we have the strictest gun laws in the country	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#121
You obviously did not understand the key point of my question	slackmaster	Jul 2012	#123
What part of strictest gun laws in the country don't you understand?	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#126
My core question is whether the criteria for buying a gun in your area are purely objective...	slackmaster	Jul 2012	#130
I've NEVER tried to buy one, why would I know that?	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#132
I've never tried to get an abortion or buy a motorcycle, but I do know about the applicable laws	slackmaster	Jul 2012	#141
You don't do a good job of disguising your ignorance	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#144
I live in a college town with a high amount of muggings during the school year...	Alduin	Jul 2012	#122
me either i have	cindyperry2010	Jul 2012	#127
It's amazing I'm still alive	piperpibroch	Jul 2012	#135
Your User name suggests	aka-chmeee	Jul 2012	#157
That is the way I see it too	madokie	Jul 2012	#137
So so many here just don't get it. They don't understand how we live without guns	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#139
I understand and respect your right to choose not to own a gun, and to be smug about it	slackmaster	Jul 2012	#146
Being mechanically inclined	madokie	Jul 2012	#156
A few posters in your thread may have changed your mind	pinboy3niner	Jul 2012	#149
I'm gonna go out tomorrow and get me a gun yes I am	DainBramaged	Jul 2012	#150
The old-time comics used to call that...	pinboy3niner	Jul 2012	#153

Response to DainBramaged (Original post)

Sat Jul 21, 2012, 11:56 PM

senseandsensibility (11,629 posts)

1. Thanks for posting this.

Peace.

Where I live, I have never once considered needing a gun for any reason

1. Thanks for posting this.

2. Sigh...

18. We can post our opinions have a problem with that?

64. Americans Living Abroad..

128. It's turned into a nation driven by fear and paranoia IMO. n/t

133. it's BEEN turned into a nation driven by fear and paranoia

138. Yep, exactly. I've been around a long time and I don't ever recall this

84. So is this a picture of you with a hangover

102. ^^This

3. Neither have I,

7. I had a friend in college who liked to shoot skeet

14. We didn't do anything like moving targets;

4. Me too.

5. You have every right to not exercise your rights under the second amendment.

8. Where does he say that in the OP?

19. And where did I say that anywhere?

76. It's more your broad brush smears of 'paranoia', etc.

37. I own no guns, but everybody I know how does has two words for you.

45. Restrictions are not taking away guns. That was a bit extreme wasn't it.

46. Then I want restrictions on your first amendment rights

55. When was the last time someone was killed with a word to the head? n/t

60. 6 MILLION people died as a result of the words in Mien Kampf NT

73. Right, are you relating the US to Nazi Germany in the 30's?

74. Closer to 12 million, actually

80. Wrong reply to sorry

91. Well if it is OK to demand restrictions on the right to post,

50. You gonna answer or hide?

61. If the poster can't be a bully

75. They're all the same, every last one of them

86. Indeed

97. .....

147. We have the right to work toward sensible gun control.

154. right !

6. Where I live now firearms are mandatory if you want to survive

10. If I lived out in the country, I'd probably want a gun too.

29. Its not the gun, its the person

9. Yes. The argument of defending yourself against the government is ridiculous.

66. Red Dawn was mediocre at best but that doesn't mean that the poorly equipped defending their own land

105. What if those who privately own all those planes and anti-armor weapons side with the government?

110. Then you have an insurgency to be put down rather than a rebellion if

125. Sorry but once again, people with small arms can't take out the US military

11. I live in a high crime area and I am disabled

12. I see your point...

13. I am 67 years old

43. I grew up in Chicago, lived in Washington D,C. in the 70's, I lived in Los Angeles during the 80's.

131. Born, raised, lived in NYC in the 50s through 80s

96. I would be a little worried about the house surrounded by chain link with the razor wire on top.

134. Yep, same here. That's more than a little freaky. n/t

120. I am 50 years old...

145. Seat belts, fire extinguishers, ... etc.

148. neither do guns put peoples lives in danger by just being present...

151. Have you ever read about the little kid bringing his daddy's gun to school, happens all the time

15. apprently you've never had squirrels in your attic.

143. No, but I have had rats under the house.

16. You should consider yourself fortunate...

22. Yada yada yada

24. I'm just pointing out...

26. You deserve snark if you think the government needs second amendment remedies

30. Hardly

32. Right

36. I didn't say

47. You guy's have appropriate screen names!

40. The government has planes and tanks,

72. That's because we've exercised a great deal of restraint in those countries...

77. Well

87. You serious?

89. Sir

109. I know the idea behind the 2nd Amendment, but the fact remains, and I live in the south so I

152. This trumps stupid gun owners marching on the capitol any day

93. They all have the same fantasy, over throw the government, and then what?

95. Hardly

99. No, it's not a numbers game

100. In an occupation

104. Technology is light years ahead of where it was in World War II

106. Doesn't it suck teaching history to so called history buffs?

112. There is really no need to be so nasty in your replies to people. They are fellow Dems after all.nt

115. Guns, Guns, Guns, Guns, Guns, Guns, Guns, Guns,

98. The restraint you are talking about,

101. Where did I say there's anything virtuous about what we're doing in Afghanistan?