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Nuggin Member (Idle past 2523 days) Posts: 2965 From: Los Angeles, CA USA Joined: |
That means in both Colorado and Wyoming my pistol must be in plain sight which it always is. Otherwise I'm breaking the law and can be arrested. This makes much more sense for the "personal protection" argument than the cities where you must keep it hidden. Re: Rifle vs Handgun vs Mountain lion You really don't need either a rifle or a hand gun for a mountain lion. A tazer, an air siren, a cattle prod, all things which could ward off a mountain lion attack. Hell, there was a story recently where I guy got into a fist fight with one and survived.
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Nuggin Member (Idle past 2523 days) Posts: 2965 From: Los Angeles, CA USA Joined: |
Jon, are you retarded, or just refusing to listen.
This ENTIRE post was set up to demonstrate how you have trouble reading what people are posting.
Sounds like someone just relieved the responsibility of the gun and blamed one of the real problems The fact that he lives in a sparesly populated area factors in his chances of his motorcycle being stolen. His having or not having a gun has nothing to do with that fact. I am not "relieving" the "responsibility of the gun" because NO ONE HAS EVER SAID THAT OWNING A GUN CAUSES YOU TO HAVE YOUR MOTORCYCLE STOLEN. Do I need to cut and paste THAT into one of the "shit Jon doesn't seem to understand" posts?
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Nuggin Member (Idle past 2523 days) Posts: 2965 From: Los Angeles, CA USA Joined: |
Of course, I could really just sum up this post in two words: slippery slope Finally you are talking sense. Yes, if it is a slippery slope - the more guns you advocate in the hands of more people, the more likely people are to get shot by those guns. So, you advocating that we attempt to achieve something like "2 guns per person" is not exactly the best plan to reduce gun deaths, is it?
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Nuggin Member (Idle past 2523 days) Posts: 2965 From: Los Angeles, CA USA Joined: |
THIS IS AN OFF TOPIC POST >>>>DO NOT REPLY Beat admin to it. HAHAHA! Too funny
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petrophysics1 Inactive Member |
Please note that my motorcycle is kept at my house in Colorado which is in Jefferson County. The most populated I believe after Denver County.
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nator Member (Idle past 2200 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: That's some of the "wild west" mythos I talked about coming out.
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nator Member (Idle past 2200 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
So, do you also wear a bullet proof vest?
If you really wanted to be protected from injury, wouldn't that work better than a gun? I mean, if you have a gun, and somebody else has a gun, and both of you shoot, you can both be shot. Your gun didn't protect you at all in that case.
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clpMINI Member (Idle past 5195 days) Posts: 116 From: Richmond, VA, USA Joined: |
My dad is all about guns and is probably packing most of the time. What he hates is when he goes to the bank and they don't let him bring a gun inside. He is the most pissed off at Wachovia Bank, and says that they are robbed more frequently than any other bank because no one can carry a gun inside, and all the bank robbers know this.
I don't know if this is true or not, and if Wachovia's are robbed more oftn, I think it may just be that there are about a million more of them than any other brand of bank around (at least here in VA). I mean, this is America. Everybody loves seeing lesbians go at it, as long as they are both hot and not in a monogamous, legally sanctioned relationship.
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nator Member (Idle past 2200 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Would you support legal reprocussions for gun owners who do not follow these rules? Those rules are all well and good, but we KNOW that thousands of times a year, gun owners don't follow these rules.
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jar Member (Idle past 424 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
I don't know about the current laws in Virginia so I can't really address it, but a bank or just about any other facility is likely somewhat safer when I am in it then when I am not in it.
My being there and armed certainly does not increase the risks, I am not about to rob a bank. I also would be hesitant to try to stop a bank robbery. Money is just a place marker. I believe that places are free to make such decisions just as I am free not to patronize an establishment that prohibited carry. Aslan is not a Tame Lion
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nator Member (Idle past 2200 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: I think you are too quick to discount the influence on our collective consciousness that the sharp rise in the reporting of violent crime has. People can be made to be afraid very easily these days. Remember a few years back when people were afraid to go into the water on the beaches because the media widely reported a couple of shark attacks? There were more ACTUAL shark attacks the previous year, but they weren't reported, so there was no fear among the public. Fear makes people change their behavior, and changes how they think about the world.
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nator Member (Idle past 2200 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
Jon, are you planning on correcting your strawmen that both I and Nuggin have listed?
That's what this thread is about.
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nator Member (Idle past 2200 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: My image of gun owners as a group is based upon public health statistics and the positions of their largest lobbyist, the NRA.
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nator Member (Idle past 2200 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Wait, isn't Jefferson county where Columbine High School is?
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kuresu Member (Idle past 2543 days) Posts: 2544 From: boulder, colorado Joined: |
Columbine High is in Littleton. Littleton is in JeffCo.
wiki says it's the fourth most populous:Jefferson County, Colorado - Wikipedia JeffCo claims second most populous:Jefferson County, CO | Official Website the demographics from 2000 census are interesting (wiki has it)
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