Gun control is not the American way!

let’s arm up I say. World would be a very polite place. Everywhere you go everyone has a gun front and center on them, so you see it all the time.


I don’t have a problem walking into a den of scorpions as long as I know it’s a den of scorpions. what I do have a problem with is the fact that someone standing outside and advertising it as a safest place to be and everyone is just nice.

 

See now you're getting it....but we will still be on E-Logs.

 

Like the Wild West was a very polite place? So polite, in fact that in order to build anything better than a shanty town they instituted laws banning the carrying of weapons inside city limits.

 

I graduated in 2000. Small rural farm community. There was probably 20 or more high power rifles in students and faculty vehicles on school property at any given time. No shootings

 

Why not, if they can say disarming the population will keep us safe. I can say arming the population will keep us safe.

also Wild West isn’t like what you saw in the movies. Yes it had issues but it wasn’t the OK coral every day. The reason I say this is because after the criminals where either killed or hung, it was a warning for the rest. Something we don’t do anymore. Slap on the wrist and a few years and back to society.

 

Kids dying at school sucks. But the rest of the murders...I'm generally okay with. Call it Darwin. Especially STL and Lori Lightfoot's Chicago.

We need more liquor stores, pawn shops, and gun stores.

 

The way things are going, He's likely to come back any second.

 

Roger, the swiss thing is somewhat reasonable, but that article missed some big stuff, most notably how restrictive ammo laws/accessibility is there.

Compelled military service (despite famously not having been in a war in 500 years)

They made a nod to it, but didnt go into detail about how tiny a nation switzerland is with a near rabid focus on orderliness and duty to country and community.


There are things to like about the swiss models of many things, but americans/america just arent swiss, you may say for the worse, and in some regards i would likely agree, but its not all roses, and im suspicious of scalability to europe at large much less transplanting their model wholesale to the usa. The individuality streak runs deep here in a way that is a foreign way of life and thought to the swiss citizen

 

Ok, I can generally go along with the other things, but these two are a bit much..

A killer doesn't need to OWN a weapon to use it. He or she simply needs to obtain it for a short while. They could steal, or borrow it. So, punishing an honest 18 year old by not allowing him or her to buy a weapon, because of the actions of a few bad apples, is a bit too much IMO.

No carrying except to a 'range'. I'm not even sure how to respond to that.. but I'll attempt.
So if you can't carry a gun anywhere except to a range of some sort, the only reason to have a gun would be for shooting at a range? And wasting expensive ammo at a range is purely entertainment if you're not allowed to have a gun anywhere else. So you'd regulate an industry out of business at that point I'd imagine.
What about hunters? You can't carry except to a range? What's a hunter to do? Sit in a range and pray a deer wanders out? I'm an avid hunter, I don't hunt for trophies, I hunt for the meat, and it's a family tradition. So, am I to give that up, because I don't hunt on a gun range? I've been to a gun range twice in my life. Those places attract a type of crowd I don't care to associate with. But under this theory, I can't walk out back on my uncle's farm and sight my rifle in for deer season, I can't carry my rifle to hunt in deer season, because I'm not carrying to a gun range?
I cannot get behind that. Sorry

 

Yep, that's why I keep a 1/8th turn on the bolt left for religion, you know, just in case.
Hot topic, hottest I've seen in recent times. To draw'r a conclusion, we're all pretty much in the same gear here, and rightly so, most truck drivers think alike. Trouble is, the people making decisions AREN'T truck drivers, and therein lies the problem. To calm any fears, our( your) guns aren't going anywhere, it's all baloney. Most of the population won't hear of it, and you want to see a REAL bloodbath, wait until they actually try to outlaw guns. Sad, it seems, that's what it has always come to, blast your adversaries out of existence. It's never been any different. To be clear, I never had a gun, never felt the need for one, I generally stayed away from any activities that had anything even remotely to do with a gun. It's one reason I got out of trucking. It was getting to the point, where I didn't feel safe anymore. I wasn't about to pack heat just to drive a stupid truck and that was 20 years ago. Gun ownership usually reflects someone that has something they cherish, something they worked hard for, ( or got for nothing) and willing to defend it to the bitter end. I took a different route, if I need a gun for ANYTHING, I'm getting out, and if that means the good ol' USA, which, I feel is a mere shred of what I held dear, so be it. I never in a million years thought I'd ever say that. I hear New Zealand is nice,,,