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Old 12-15-2012, 03:32 PM
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Uh guys, fired a 12 ga lately? It will knock small women on their fannies.
Not if they are schooled in how to use it.
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Old 12-15-2012, 03:42 PM
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Not if they are schooled in how to use it.
So you're weighing in in favor of mandatory training and licensing.

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Old 12-15-2012, 03:54 PM
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So you're weighing in in favor of mandatory training and licensing.

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Nope, just proper advice in what to expect when shooting a 12 gauge shotgun and how to counteract the recoil. That has nothing to do with licensing. Don't follow Boreas and run for the touchdown without the football.
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Old 12-15-2012, 04:03 PM
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Nope, just proper advice in what to expect when shooting a 12 gauge shotgun and how to counteract the recoil. That has nothing to do with licensing. Don't follow Boreas and run for the touchdown without the football.
Since you had, in the past, proven yourself capable of rational thought, I had assumed that you would follow along on that course.

You know I'm just yanking your chain.

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Old 12-15-2012, 04:09 PM
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Seems simple enough to me.

No semi automatics, one revolver, one rifle and one shot gun legal with registration.
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Old 12-15-2012, 04:14 PM
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I would also ask anyone where one might draw the line for the type of weapons which individuals might be allowed to own? Is there strong opposition to restrictions on private ownership of machine guns or bazookas? Would it be practical for there to be highly regulated repositories for automatic weapons, including machine guns, for those who would want to have the experience of shooting them?

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I want the experience of lighting off a 50 megaton thermonuclear device. Mind if I repose it in your basement, Don?

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Old 12-15-2012, 04:16 PM
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Uh guys, fired a 12 ga lately? It will knock small women on their fannies.
Not low brass field loads and/or a 20 gauge, which are more than enough to dissuade a perp (if the racking action of the pump shotgun isn't enough already).
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Old 12-15-2012, 04:43 PM
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Since you had, in the past, proven yourself capable of rational thought, I had assumed that you would follow along on that course.

You know I'm just yanking your chain.

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Limit your hands to the chain, please!
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Old 12-15-2012, 05:23 PM
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Limit your hands to the chain, please!
Why don't you go milk a snake.

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Old 12-15-2012, 05:44 PM
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Other than static display of collectables, target and skeet shooting, what else are they used for?

And, our death rate from firearms is unacceptable, is it not?

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Two questions and two answers.

First, have you ever been to a convention that interests you? Maybe star trek, or rocks and gems or audio gear? Why did you go? You could have just as easily bought what ever you went for over the internet or craigslist or some venue as such. You went because of the socail aspect and fun. In most of the rural communinites that I have lived, have friends, etc, guns are a huge social aspect. Pulling out a new firearm and showing it to the friends, going out and shooting it, and sitting around the dinner table talking about it are huge social times in some communities. It has nothing to do with the firearm, it is the social get together and community which surrounds it. Think of it as baseball. Why do we watch or participate in that. I mean some idiot hit a round leather thing with a wooden stick - what possible useful purpose is there in that??

Second question, is the death rate from guns acceptable? No death rate that can be avoided is acceptable? Weather it be guns, automobiles, or pipe wrenches. If I believed for even a second that rules and laws around guns would stop this madness, I would be the first in law to sign up. I believe in all my heart and being that it will not work at all. Afterall, those who went to do these tragedies obviously had no regard for the lay anyway. Right?

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EDIT: BTW - you listed three other things guns are used for besides killing too. One more, investment purposes. I know many people who buy guns with the purpose of financial investment. These are one of the few assest you can own that will actually increase in value with time.
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