I grew up with a gun rack in my room; not in my house mind you, but in my bedroom. My childhood bedroom was my dad's office before I was born and he kept his gun rack hanging there, and he kept it up there after I was born, it had wood-grain walls and the gun rack looked good there he thought. He kept trigger locks on all 5 of them and kept the ammunition in a completely different part of the house, because gun safety is important and he was responsible. He was an avid hunter and I was too, at one point in my life. What I'm saying is guns were a normal part of my childhood, were not a subject of fascination to me, and from a young age was taught that they were a tool not to be trifled with, and from a young age I knew the basics of gun safety and learned to shoot when I was in elementary school. a number of the situation that sometimes end up with a horrible accident where a friend asked if I wanted to see his dad's gun were avoided because I didn't need to see his dad's gun, because I saw my own dad's guns all the time and I had no reason to see another fucking gun. I don't need to see your dad's hammers or deep fryers or oil change setup either, buddy, I enjoy shooting guns, or at least enjoyed it; I got good aim and it's fun to hit a target or knock a can off a fencepost or what have you.
A number of mass shootings back, I basically swore off guns entirely, besides the occasional shooting of cans with a bb-gun around a campfire in the northwoods. I couldn't shoot a firearm without thinking of a kid dying, and that was that. I'm still sticking to that, but I'm also wondering with the fact that there is a mounting fascist threat in our country, and the entire law enforcement community is entirely on their sides, if it would be wise for the left-leaning folks of this country to be armed for community defense purposes. With one side of the country not wanting guns and sanely thinking there should at least be strong gun control laws, and the other side of the country fucking armed to the teeth and willing to main and kill to get their twisted point of view established as law, and the vast majority of cops are literally on their side and won't lift a finger to help young children, much less adults who disagree with them, maybe this is a good idea. Perhaps I'm too paranoid and fearing of doom, and there are a whole host of legal and logistical issues to the concept of community defense, and the only gun I own is hundreds of miles from me in a cabin in northern michigan that hasn't been fired in at least a decade, but as the phrase goes, political power flows from the barrel of a gun, the guns aren't going away, and one side has almost all of them.
tl:dr, I vote crap on guns, waffles for we might actually need them to actually protect ourselves in the not-so-distant future.
Curry Pervert wrote: Mon Jun 06, 2022 12:54 pm
You just need a couple of sacrificial lambs to shoot up a few NRA rallies, maybe take out a couple of Smith & Wesson executives, problem solved.
Problem there is that they don't allow you to carry a gun into an NRA rally. Or at least the most recent one following the Uvalde shooting. I know it's pointless to mention the unrelenting hypocrisy of the right wing, but, god damn.
f.k.a. jimmy two hands