Your statements hurt the cause of gun rights. Not as much as the New Jersey legislature, but they do none the less. And you should know better.
See Barry Goldwater’s quote above.
I agree. The last thing that gun rights advocates need is a bunch of assholes who show that gun owners are not calm, rational and law abiding citizens who can be trusted with a lethal weapon.
I wonder if McVeigh read any Goldwater.
I wish my side didn’t have lunatics among us. Suffice to say I’ve read about this incident at many gun enthusiast boards. The overwhelming majority condemns the threats being lobbed at the store owner. Supporting threatening behavior is an outlier.
Ah. See, I am not a “gun enthusiast”. In fact, I don’t own any guns and don’t plan to in the near future. On the other hand, I am not a journalist either, and I still support freedom of the press.
Ah, it was simpler time back at post #18.
Echo chambers are so nice and peaceful…
Ah, yes. The freedom to threaten other people with violence. One of those freedoms you don’t hear about so much.
I guess I can steal your gun worth less than $500, too. That’s also a misdemeanor, and I’d be doing it because I’m afraid of you limiting my freedom, since you think threatening people is acceptable.
I don’t think Goldwater was advocating going out and issuing threats against people, shit for brains.
Bone, no worries. A good many people in my family own guns, and they’re not a bunch of nutjobs.
About as much of a “freedom” as doing a “sit in”/trespassing is.
What gun? I do have a baseball bat though.
I love seeing liberals sputter. Do go on.
Goldwater’s statement is a general one, not a specific one. Sometimes, in defense of liberty, extremism is no vice. The owner understood he was wrong, apologized, and desisted. Everything’s good.
And I love seeing morons rambling. Seriously, the owner “desisted” because people were threatening to kill him. He didn’t know if they were serious.
So if the mob threatens to burn down your business, they’re just doing a “sit in”? Tell you what, the next time you piss me off, I’ll call you up and threaten to kidnap your family. Sound good?
The owner also said if you’re going to shoot anyone, shoot the politicians. Not a very good representative for the community, unfortunately.
There was no mob, there was one customer. And one phone call making a general threat. And yes, the two threats were misdemeanors. So is trespassing.
Mob as in “mafia”. If a member of the mafia calls you, and says, “if you don’t do such and such, I’ll kill you”, that’s just like trespassing? Wow, what color is the sky in your world?
I watched a bit of it (he rambles too much). He in fact said exactly what I said. He said that anyone should be able to buy whatever gun they want. BUT with that law, selling such guns is (and I quote) “that is a sin, that is godawful, that is fucked up”. And he says he was wrong. Yay for him. And I don’t know exactly what happened there - whether he was informed of the law and still insisted he’d sell the guns at first and then the threats came, or if some people (wrong-headedly) did not inform him of the law, assumed he knew of it, and then flew off the handle. Judging by that video, it was probably the second scenario. If so, that was wrong.
Can somebody shoot Terr’s goalposts? Right now they’re running around like panicked impalas.
You were thinking of disenfranchise, not disarm. They do both start with “D”.
This is why I often laugh when gun nuts describe themselves as law abiding citizens. Scratch the surface and little brownshirts emerge.
I’d like to see a cite for “gun shops can only sell smart guns” being a violation of the Second Amendment.