Gun Control & RKBA

Glorfindel

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53. No. 1 and No. 2

Sun Apr 6, 2014, 06:14 PM

Apr 2014

I grew up in the mountains of north Georgia. You learn to shoot almost as soon as you learn to walk. I got a .22 rifle for Christmas when I was 10. I never liked hunting (neither did my father) and never killed anything but snakes with a gun. I got drafted in 1966 and learned the military method of shooting on an M14 at Fort Benning, GA. We were issued a rifle in Vietnam, but we paid the armorer to keep them cleaned for us and never used them. I did have a .45 pistol in my desk, but had no occasion to fire it, thank goodness.

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How do you know the things you know about guns? [View all] petronius Mar 2014 OP

Numbers 1 and 3. rrneck Mar 2014 #1

Numbers 1 and 2. I was trained as an Armourer by the USMC. oneshooter Mar 2014 #2

I picked professional experience sarisataka Mar 2014 #3

trained on a M16 Peregrine Mar 2014 #4

1 and 2 Duckhunter935 Mar 2014 #5

1 and 3. Also, gun owner's manual. Yes, Martha... Eleanors38 Mar 2014 #6

What kind of firearms is as futile an inquiry as who should have them. Loudly Mar 2014 #7

Which puts Republicans in charge krispos42 Mar 2014 #10

Society must deteriorate so that society won't deteriorate. Loudly Mar 2014 #11

Exactly my point. krispos42 Mar 2014 #16

I do blame them for Scalia and Thomas. Loudly Mar 2014 #17

Do you agree with Windsor? Nt hack89 Apr 2014 #42

Scalia dissented from Windsor, and Thomas joined in the dissent. Loudly Apr 2014 #43

That's the most forthright argument for willful ignorance I've ever seen friendly_iconoclast Mar 2014 #12

It's the only game they have. Honest discourse would lead to defeat of their arguments. NYC_SKP Mar 2014 #13

How does the "shell" game of inquiry into such things possibly relate to this? Loudly Mar 2014 #15

How exactly do you propose confiscating 300 million+ firearms, billions of magazines, Jgarrick Apr 2014 #18

Confiscation? How about turning off the spigot of new units? Loudly Apr 2014 #19

There it is folks clffrdjk Apr 2014 #20

Your paranoia and your gun love are co-dependents. Loudly Apr 2014 #21

What paranoia? clffrdjk Apr 2014 #28

So you propose making the manufacture of all firearms, magazines, and ammunition illegal. Jgarrick Apr 2014 #23

58 years from Plessy v. Ferguson to Brown v. Board of Education. Loudly Apr 2014 #24

How likely is that? 1%? 20%? 90%? Please be specific. Jgarrick Apr 2014 #27

And how many years elapsed from the bans on pot, morphine, and alcohol benEzra Apr 2014 #49

I'd say infinitely better odds... discntnt_irny_srcsm Apr 2014 #50

I see they blocked you from their group. NYC_SKP Apr 2014 #22

Dissension from their philosophy of civilian disarmament is too much for them to bear. Jgarrick Apr 2014 #25

I, too, was surprised. NYC_SKP Apr 2014 #32

Wow, its true. rdharma got a pizza. beevul Apr 2014 #35

He asked to be banned. oneshooter Apr 2014 #45

True. NYC_SKP Apr 2014 #46

Quite the ego that one. wall_dish Apr 2014 #48

My view DashOneBravo Apr 2014 #26

What makes you think folks would obey the rules any more than you do? beevul Apr 2014 #34

I grew up hunting. jeepnstein Mar 2014 #8

Multiple sources krispos42 Mar 2014 #9

Other, 1 and 3. Mostly 1. Guns were in every household within 20 miles. Rural. Agricultural. NYC_SKP Mar 2014 #14

1&2 Adsos Letter Apr 2014 #29

I see dead people. Nuff said. n/t DebJ Apr 2014 #30

Hunter's safety class and shooting with my family as kid. nt ZombieHorde Apr 2014 #31

Personal Experience. Oakenshield Apr 2014 #33

A well rounded education draws from many sources SkatmanRoth Apr 2014 #36

36 years of OHT.... ileus Apr 2014 #37

1, 3, and indirectly 2 S_B_Jackson Apr 2014 #38

The first three beemer27 Apr 2014 #39

One and Three, mostly. Lizzie Poppet Apr 2014 #40

One and two. Nt hack89 Apr 2014 #41

The first three Lurks Often Apr 2014 #44

One, Two and Three. SQUEE Apr 2014 #47

Yeah, I can't believe the things the DI's used to think were true Jackpine Radical Apr 2014 #55

1, 3, 6 and 7 discntnt_irny_srcsm Apr 2014 #51

Primarily 1, but 2 and 3 as well tularetom Apr 2014 #52

No. 1 and No. 2 Glorfindel Apr 2014 #53

The first 3. Jackpine Radical Apr 2014 #54

Voted #1. SevenSixtyTwo Apr 2014 #56

Carolyn McCarthy , the news , MSNBC , watching the news about Newtown oneofthe99 Apr 2014 #57

poll fail mog75 Apr 2014 #58

See post directly above yours... SQUEE Apr 2014 #59