# Assholes with guns in my 'hood **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 10, 2013, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assholes-with-guns-in-my-hood/646745 "2013-01-10T14:58:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assholes-with-guns-in-my-hood/646745/61 "2013-01-10T21:09:57Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Then there is something seriously wrong with you as a Human being and I hope you never get ahold of anything more dangerous than a pair of tweezers. > > The appropriate response to such a thing is to call the police and report it, and let them investigate. If you are feeling alarmed or threatened, leave the area. > > Shooting someone because they make you feel threatened? Sociopathic and straight out Murder. I would easily vote to convict anyone who did this of first degree murder and, if my state had it, for the death penalty. Hello police. There’s two guys with rifles walking towards the school bus that my children (my only children) are exiting at the moment. Please hurry over here in the next 15 minutes or so and check this out. If these guys who HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO SANE REASON for approaching helpless children while carrying loaded weapons by chance happen to be monsters then please bring along something to help us squeegee up the blood. Why yes, I’m armed too but Chimera has convinced me that everything’s O… Wait I hear popping noises. Here’s another good joke - two guys walk into a bank with guns drawn. Anyone thinking that they might just be there to rob the bank, please turn in your tweezers. You know Chimera, it’s shithead thinking like yours which will probably lead to responsible gun owners (not the dick swinging street parading fucktards of course) to lose their basic rights to continue to peacefully own their firearms. ---
**Author:** ![PacifistPorcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@PacifistPorcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PacifistPorcupine)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assholes-with-guns-in-my-hood/646745/62 "2013-01-10T21:10:33Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Try again. Visualize the initial attack. 😃 In my experience, the initial attack is usually in the form of gunfire. Once your corpse is resting on the ground, but before it disappears when you re-spawn, the shooter proceeds to crouch on your face repeatedly. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assholes-with-guns-in-my-hood/646745/63 "2013-01-10T21:12:43Z")
> [@PacifistPorcupine](#): > > In my experience, the initial attack is usually in the form of gunfire. Once your corpse is resting on the ground, but before it disappears when you re-spawn, the shooter proceeds to crouch on your face repeatedly. See post #51 for reference. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assholes-with-guns-in-my-hood/646745/64 "2013-01-10T21:15:25Z")
> [@fumster](#): > > ..You people who think we would be better off if we walked around with guns all the time just astound me. I can’t even imagine the mindset. They’re called idiots. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assholes-with-guns-in-my-hood/646745/65 "2013-01-10T21:17:19Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > At least if someone attacks me with his ballsack I can pretty much guarantee he’ll come out of it worse than I will. You’ll think that until mine are wrapped around your neck like _boleadoras_. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assholes-with-guns-in-my-hood/646745/66 "2013-01-10T21:34:10Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > You’ll think that until mine are wrapped around your neck like _boleadoras_. And _you’d_ think _that_…until that last swing around when they hit each other at high speed. I think the only danger I might encounter would be pierced eardrums from your high-pitched screaming. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assholes-with-guns-in-my-hood/646745/67 "2013-01-10T21:49:09Z")
With mine, it would be more like playing with my old Click Clack Balls. ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assholes-with-guns-in-my-hood/646745/68 "2013-01-10T22:03:29Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > Hey man - Sellwood is a dangerous place. I’m afraid to even walk around there. 🙂 It’s all the antique dealers. You don’t want to mess with those guys - they’ve got some hard bark on 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assholes-with-guns-in-my-hood/646745/69 "2013-01-10T22:07:21Z")
Look, since these guys aren’t allowed to walk around with their penises out, they are doing the next best thing in their minds. ---
**Author:** ![fumster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assholes-with-guns-in-my-hood/646745/70 "2013-01-10T22:13:57Z")
Here is a list of things that are legal but dickish: Standing outside a movie theater and telling ticket-holders the ending. Protesting with signs that say “God Hates Fags” at the funeral of soldiers killed in battle. Wearing a T-shirt of James Earl Ray on MLK day. Telling three year olds that Santa isn’t real. Parading around near a school with rifles slung on your shoulder weeks after a mall shooting a few miles away and a school shooting that killed 27. It beggars belief that men would do this or that there would be people defending them. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assholes-with-guns-in-my-hood/646745/71 "2013-01-10T22:40:11Z")
> [@spinky](#): > > You really aren’t very bright, are you? Brighter than you would be my guess. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assholes-with-guns-in-my-hood/646745/72 "2013-01-10T22:58:44Z")
> [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](#): > > So your complaint is that two guys exercised their constitutional rights without breaking any laws or harming anyone? > > I think it’s alarming when people like you vote, but if someone called 911 to report it and diverted resources from actual emergencies I don’t think that frivolous call would be your fault, it would be theirs. Go back and read the original post, this time for comprehension and not through the filter of your own stupidity. ---
**Author:** ![Spiny\_Norman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Spiny\_Norman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiny_Norman)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assholes-with-guns-in-my-hood/646745/73 "2013-01-10T23:05:10Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Look, since these guys aren’t allowed to walk around with their penises out, they are doing the next best thing in their minds. Perhaps they tried and nobody noticed? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assholes-with-guns-in-my-hood/646745/74 "2013-01-10T23:11:13Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > Why yes, I’m armed too but Chimera has convinced me that everything’s O… Wait I hear popping noises. > > You know Chimera, it’s shithead thinking like yours [Quote=Chimera in Post #2] While I agree that they were being total dumbasses; No one is going to decide that they’re a danger and just open fire. [/quote] [Quote=Chimera in Post #38] The appropriate response to such a thing is to call the police and report it, and let them investigate. If you are feeling alarmed or threatened, leave the area. [/quote] What part of this was convincing you everything is ok with that situation and ‘shithead thinking’? Oh right, it was YOUR shithead thinking that sees things that aren’t there and attacks people for it. I was right, there is something fundamentally wrong with you as a Human Being. After all, you’re the mentally stunted piece of shit that said he could excuse other people opening fire on these morons ‘just because’. ---
**Author:** ![Suil\_Dubh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85f322/32.png) [@Suil\_Dubh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suil_Dubh)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assholes-with-guns-in-my-hood/646745/75 "2013-01-10T23:18:37Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Brighter than you would be my guess. Then your guess would be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assholes-with-guns-in-my-hood/646745/76 "2013-01-10T23:23:38Z")
No one would ever decide that they’re a danger? Then why did the near-by school go into lock-down? Seems they thought they might be in danger. And if the NRA’s wet-dream came true and the teachers in that school were armed, an itchy trigger-finger may very well have opened fire. You really think that that would never happen? People shoot each other by accident every day in this country. You may not think a guy standing around with an AR-15 seems dangerous, but a lot of people would. And if those people are armed, then shit is going to happen sooner or later. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assholes-with-guns-in-my-hood/646745/77 "2013-01-10T23:26:52Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > No one would ever decide that they’re a danger? FAIL ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assholes-with-guns-in-my-hood/646745/78 "2013-01-10T23:28:26Z")
> [@Suil\_Dubh](#): > > Then your guess would be wrong. Cite? ---
**Author:** ![3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/47e85d/32.png) [@3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3_20_59_or_bust)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assholes-with-guns-in-my-hood/646745/79 "2013-01-10T23:32:03Z")
Here’s an [article in the Oregonian about these idiots](http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/01/rifle_toting_activist_in_portl.html#incart_river_default). And please note, in the article, the use of the English language from this gun-lover before you argue my use of “idiot.” ---
**Author:** ![Spiny\_Norman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Spiny\_Norman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiny_Norman)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assholes-with-guns-in-my-hood/646745/80 "2013-01-10T23:32:16Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > I don’t see why. Carrying guns to the gunsmith isn’t the same as carrying them to protest gun laws, and it’s only the latter which has been prohibited, correct? Nope. Openly carrying long guns in an “incorporated city or city and county” is now a misdemeanor. You can get cited for openly carrying your hunting rifle from the parking lot to the gunsmith storefront, and that is really kinda stupid. And it wouldn’t have happened, were it not for “2nd Amendment activists” who decide to push the limits by carrying slung rifles to the coffee shop. (Unloaded rifles, to boot. Maximum drama for minimum effect.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assholes-with-guns-in-my-hood/646745.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/assholes-with-guns-in-my-hood/646745.md?page=5)