Has everybody fired a gun?

The funny thing about my job and qualifying with firearms, there are rare times we actually carry. The only times we get to carry a weapon is when we're outside the secure perimeter which isn't a lot and with me being a sergeant, I get less opportunities, especially the shotgun and rifle.

Just what you see pal.

That might be technically correct, but here's another fact and figure: The AR-15 has no purpose whatsoever other than to KILL PEOPLE. That's it sole purpose. It is NOT a good hunting weapon. You would never hunt deer with it. It would defeat the whole purpose.

(Unless of course you were really angry at that particular deer and wanted to totally annihilate it while simultaneously scaring away everything else and pissing off the other hunters).

An AR-15 should only ever be in the hands of soldiers in conflict and SWAT. No civilian has a need or use for it except that it "looks cool when ahm holdin' it! Murica!"

Demagogue that.

I was on a kick about 15 years ago and bought quite a few WW2 era surplus rifles. It's the history side of me. I grew up in a family with pistols and rifles so I was shooting at a pretty young age. The coolest one I bought was a Swiss K-31 straight pull rifle. I took it apart to clean it when I first bought it and after I unscrewed the buttplate a small piece of paper fell out which had the Swiss Reservist's name and address written on it in Switzerland. I never took the time to write the man, or even knew if he was still alive, but I thought that was a really neat piece of history.

Yes.
Some .22 rifles and a .308 rifle.
And I have held an unloaded 357 Magnum revolver. I even spun it on my finger (I got good at that thanks to cap guns growing up).

The .308 belonged to some soldiers on leave who were doing some hunting on a property I was working on. It was modified and had a huge scope on it (the soldier who owned it was a sniper). It was cool to fire.

I'm Australian, by the way.

13 years in the British army so yes.

The funny thing is that you think I sound like a crazy person, and I think you sound like a crazy person.

But my craziness comes from concern over there being too many gun related deaths and violence, and yours come from "protecting the citizens against a tyrannical government" and a "idiotic socialist dystopia" neither of which exist!

I am left leaning, but I am NOT socialist. I am a Capitalist. I like the system of government and society that we have.

Socialism is the BS lie that your Republican leaders have brainwashed you with so that you do what they want like obedient little sheep. You've bought that BS hook line and sinker. They make you afraid of things like socialism, immigrants, the confiscation of your weapons, the left, etc. so that you have an enemy to point the finger at, meanwhile they give tax breaks to billionaires and make tons of money behind your backs at your expense. Your very own leaders are screwing you behind your backs and instead you're worried about shit that doesn't exist. Their plan is working like gangbusters! They have totally pulled the wool over your eyes.

There is no socialist dystopia or plan to turn America into one. Nobody wants that. That's a lie you've been fed, that you've bought into.

There's no tyrannical government you have to defend yourself from. I don't see any stormtroopers in the streets, running around taking peoples property. That's more BS. Where are these evil government agents that are coming for you? That's 1700's thinking.

If anyone's the tyrant its Trump! And he's on YOUR side! So how are you being tyrannized?

As for gun violence itself... ARE YOU FUCKING BLIND?! There was another shooting just 2 or 3 days ago! How many of these need to happen for you see? I'm the one with my head up my ass? Take a look around...I think you'll see a lot of your own colon.

So hold on to your guns and ignore the shootings and crime, meanwhile your life isn't getting any better, "but it's the Mexicans fault, Murica!"

Yes. I am in the USA.


njcardfan



Yeah, I can't see anyone disagreeing with that as a general rule.



I have not shot anything of that sort but I suspect it's likely I would agree given I tend to agree with your first comment about practicality about getting something easy to handle/use but is effective with decent stopping power.

but I can imagine for fun, something like that would be cool.



But none of that matters to the left as they are pretty much anti-gun, especially lately.

because no matter what they will try to twist things to make people owning guns look bad etc etc. because at the end of the day... it's all about power and control over the masses for the godless left.



But the left dislikes comments like that because it does not fit their corrupt narrative. they can't let the truth get in their way of screwing the common person over and raising their power etc.



I really wonder if they(those on the left) are truly that blind to think Trump is going to lose in 2020?

because I think the odds are definitely in his favor of winning in 2020 especially as the left has went too far left, which is bad for the common person. besides, even looking at semi-recent history... two term presidents are pretty typical with a occasional exception to that rule. or another thing... it usually goes no more than 2-3 terms in a row before switching back to the other side. but assuming Trump wins in 2020, if the republicans can milk his success in 2024, which I think is possible (especially if Trump wins by a larger margin in 2020 than he did in 2016) they could get elected again which would make for three terms in a row as it will be interesting to see if they can go four in a row as four terms in a row has not happened for a long time now.

but anyways... personally I don't think it's a question of whether Trump will win in 2020, I think it's more of a question of how much he wins by, be it more than he did in 2016 or not (NOTE: in 2016 it was 304-227). but it will be funny if he wins by a larger margin in 2020 than he did in 2016 which will further confirm the general public's middle-finger to the godless corrupt left. either way, it's going to be quite funny/entertaining to watch the debates with Trump going off on everyone