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In reply to the discussion: Donate, don't donate, whatever, just hold your babies tight. There are no good guys with guns. [View all]Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)139. I don't have that kind of fear of my fellow humans. Why some have is curious.
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Donate, don't donate, whatever, just hold your babies tight. There are no good guys with guns. [View all]
Ed Suspicious
Jan 2016
OP
On a closed off range, no danger to innocent people, correctly wearing ear protection
CTyankee
Jan 2016
#132
Now they can display their cocks in public! FFS, where is the US headed. I see this as
RKP5637
Jan 2016
#4
It's the yahoos with the inanimate compensator that are a concern. Anyone who needs a gun to walk
Hoyt
Jan 2016
#80
I think you've got it bass ackward, and you're clearly not part of any "middle ground" on this. nt
Electric Monk
Jan 2016
#56
You have no need to worry about that, along with the other 99.9% of firearm owners
GGJohn
Jan 2016
#11
Wait. You could or couldn't care less? I don't know what to make of this post.
Ed Suspicious
Jan 2016
#10
Gunners are funny, GG. And, your lust for lethal weapons and missions has been noted.
Hoyt
Jan 2016
#90
It takes a while for all the yahoos' and old soldier's love for lethal weapons to dissipate.
Hoyt
Jan 2016
#94
Ok Hoyt, you go with that, meanwhile, the gun control movement is dying and you don't
GGJohn
Jan 2016
#95
Could you give me a link? I missed whatever you are posting about. Besides, how does that justify
Hoyt
Jan 2016
#97
I support Moms Demand Action. Kind of hypocritical in your case with 5 gun safes full of
Hoyt
Jan 2016
#99
Do you actually do *anything* in the real world, not online, to support gun control?
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2016
#108
Those questions also apply to every "gun control supporter" here...
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2016
#109
Clearly, all of us have done more than the gun yahoos who can't leave home without one
Hoyt
Jan 2016
#119
"Clearly, all of us have done more.." More of what, exactly? Wearing out keyboards? Posting pics?
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2016
#140
At least we are not toting guns, promoting guns, supporting Zimmerman, contributing to NBA rather
Hoyt
Jan 2016
#141
You also don't go to meetings, write checks, or lobby politicians. You are, indeed, slacktivists
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2016
#142
I get it, you are proud of your support for gun organizations like the NRA, and god knows what else
Hoyt
Jan 2016
#143
Add "research what I talk about" to the list of things you don't do, as I despise the NRA...
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2016
#145
Tell it to the former good guy father of this toddler. I'm sure the girl's mother had no reason to
Ed Suspicious
Jan 2016
#16
Isn't that why gun owners need to shove a pop-gun in their pants before leaving the house?
Hassin Bin Sober
Jan 2016
#23
That's great, is there any evidence that having guns in the home reduces the chances that they...
Humanist_Activist
Jan 2016
#31
There are plenty of youtube videos of citizens with firearms successfully defending themselves
GGJohn
Jan 2016
#102
Videos aren't anecdotes, neither are news stories about citizens defending themselves
GGJohn
Jan 2016
#107
Tell me again how I can tell a good guy with a gun from a bad. Why is my fear irrational?
Ed Suspicious
Jan 2016
#105
Two people dead because of one asshole with a gun equals fucking stupid ignore the problem. And if
Ed Suspicious
Jan 2016
#111
I don't have that kind of fear of my fellow humans. Why some have is curious.
Eleanors38
Jan 2016
#139
Maybe. I don't know what tomorrow might bring. I tell myself I would never do anything to harm
Ed Suspicious
Jan 2016
#106