Gun Confiscation Video

[anachronistic]

I'm guessing I am the only person participating in this thread that has been held at gun point. *shrugs*

[Aegis]

I'm guessing I am the only person participating in this thread that has been held at gun point. *shrugs*

Would you care to wrap that in some argument, or did you just feel the need to tell everyone that?

...And, you're not...a friend of mine, after having been shot all to hell by another of my friends with a paintball gun, came out of his house with a loaded shotgun pointed at us, tears & welts all over his face.

[DoesntMatter]

No, I had a guy point a gun at me once while I was in a car, I presumed the guy to be a heroin junky from looks

[shh!]

I was held up by gunpoint when I worked in a bank.

[DoesntMatter]

I'm assuming the guy was caught, right vash? Hopefully at least

[anachronistic]

Would you care to wrap that in some argument, or did you just want to tell everyone that?

...And, you're not...a friend of mine, after having been shot all to hell my another of my friends with a paintball gun, came out of his house with a loaded shotgun pointed at us.

Kind of in support of what you just said, the person bought the firearm illegally.

I also know people that have stolen firearms out of homes and from law enforcement. One of them was just put in jail, but for other reasons.

When firearms are confiscated, government is taking away people's rights to defend themselves. You're only right when you say guns are readily available off the streets... and not just semiautomatic pistols either.

I think it's all silly though. Go ahead, take it all away. Other than defense, all it is, is a hobby. I enjoy hunting animals with rifles and shotguns.... I guess if we aren't allowed to use those anymore, well I can keep fishing. But if they make that illegal, I will f#$cking kill somebody.

Now that Frasbee showed that other clip it all makes sense to me. I perfectly understand why those people's firearms were being taken away.

Cocaine is illegal and readily available to anyone that seeks it out. Firearms are slightly less portable, but won't be much less accessible, to anyone that seeks them out, other than for those people that don't break laws. I'm not really standing on some platform of paranoia or self-defense. I like guns; they're a hobby, if you will. When I get sick of this town I'm living in and all its weirdness and depravity, I can head back to my parents' house out in the middle of nowhere & blast off a couple rounds at a steel plate way back in the field, and it feels good.

[shh!]

I'm assuming the guy was caught, right vash? Hopefully at least

Haha - no; he wasn't. I was a terrible witness. I was so scared, the only thing I could remember about his appearance was that he was white, and had a hairy belly button. The Feds that interviewed me all got a good laugh about that, saying great! we'll get the guy in a lineup andhave them all lift their shirts!

[DoesntMatter]

Haha - no; he wasn't. I was a terrible witness. I was so scared, the only thing I could remember about his appearance was that he was white, and had a hairy belly button. The Feds that interviewed me all got a good laugh about that, saying great! we'll get the guy in a lineup andhave them all lift their shirts!

hahaha... Well I guess I know where your anti-gun stance comes from now! If I was a mom with kids and had that experience I would probably feel the same way


Wait.... vash.... I'm white and I have a hairy belly button!

[misombra]

maybe he was trying to distract you with his belly button.

[shh!]

Actually, that isn't where my anti-gun stance came from, and this happened long before I had kids.

My anti-gun stance solidified when three kids from my synagogue (two of them were - and still are - friends of my children) - in addition to two others - were shot in a local community center by a white supremacist, who then proceeded to murder a mailman.

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_1999_Los_Angeles_Jewish_Community_Center_sh ooting[/url]

[DoesntMatter]

Ironic he used an Uzi, considered that weapon was made by Jews

But all the anti-gun laws in the world wouldn't stop that guy. Why? Because there are already millions of legal guns in this country, and probably millions of illegal guns. Secondly, he was clearly messed up in the head. Guns are here for good at this point

Far more dangerous than guns are drivers on the road

[Gribble]

Here's a better one: if you're walking down the street and two big mother****ers come out from an alleyway and start beating the shit out of you, would you rather have a pistol, a knife, or neither?

Neither. Because in that instance I'd be disarmed and my weapon would probably be used against me. Self defense isn't about knowing how to break a guy's arm or having a gun on your person. It's about situational awareness and smarts. It's about not being in the place those big mother ****ers are, or being aware of their presence before they start the beating and having the brain cells necessary to get away.

As to my moronic question, I think anyone with half an ounce of sense will agree that it's much easier to escape or subdue a man armed with a knife than it is a man armed with a pistol. Particularly in a situation involving groups of people.

[lesa]

I was held up by gunpoint when I worked in a bank.

Banks and Pharmacies are two scary places to work sometimes. Don't mess with money and drugs!

[Gribble]

When I worked at a bank I always secretly hoped we'd get robbed.

[lesa]

When I worked at a bank I always secretly hoped we'd get robbed.

Why? A few seconds of fame? A day off?...