Everything you have in your home is inherently dangerous in some situation.
Even a fire extinguisher. In a fire, it’s at risk of exploding if you don’t use it.
Whoa, you’re right! So many people were killed by exploding fire extinguishers last year! We should do something about that!:rolleyes:
A gun in the home is 10 times more likely to harm the people who live there than it is to protect them. Keeping one around is almost always a stupid thing to do.
And don’t tell me how you’re not like all those foolish, irresponsible gun owners who don’t take proper precautions. Everything THINKS they’re responsible, right up until the horrible moment that something happens that proves that they’re not.
Oh great. Now I have to get a gun to defend myself against them.
I used the term “responsible gun owner” in jest, from the owner’s standpoint because every gun owner thinks he’s responsible even if he’s careless with his weapons. And even if he takes every precaution with his guns today, that doesn’t mean he will tomorrow.
I don’t have some b.s. story about losing my gun. The truth is, I sold it to some guy on the street to have money to spend on hookers. Please don’t tell my wife.
If you’re not a menace, how did a boneheaded roommate end up with your gun illegally in his trunk without your knowledge? You might think you’re responsible, and maybe you are for the most part, but don’t you agree that shouldn’t happen to what is popularly thought of as a “responsible gun owner”?
Amen, brother. I suspect that every gun owner’s definition of “responsible” is self-biased. The guy in Oregon probably thought he was being responsible by taking “protection” for himself and others in the theatre and having it ready to use at a moment’s notice. The boys who found the gun were more responsible than he was.
Good memory, Esox Lucius. From the original thread “Tell me about your Ruger MKII”
How was he able to get access to this gun? Did you have any preventative measures in place to ensure your roommates and guests did not have access to it?
Those are good guns. I’ve got a Ruger MKIII that I’m about to have the barrel threaded so I can put a suppressor on it.
I’m also going to have my Savage .22 rifle threaded so I can use it on that.
The cans I shoot will never hear what shot them!
Wrong. You’re misinterpreting the statistic.
For you, my non-refundable fee is $300/hour with a four hour minimum, payable in advance. Pay up and I’ll answer your question.
Actually, he mentioned it in this thread too, post 119, to complain that having the gun registered didn’t do much good because the police didn’t inform him when they found it.:rolleyes: Methinks they might have been hoping to save themselves the trouble of finding it again sometime in the future.
And this is why it’s a waste of time to try to talk to these people.
I’ve lost track of who is dissing whom.
He did not possess is illegally. Also, having an unloaded gunin your trunk isn’t illegal.
In any case, your comment completely sidesteps the failure of the LAPD to make any effort to contact the registered owner.
Here’s my tale of a responsible firearms owner (Me)
See, we do exist
As said before, you’re not helping your cause here. This board is about *fighting *ignorance, not promulgating it, which is unfortunately what you’ve been doing. Or are you *really *that profoundly ignorant about something you have absolutely no excuse for being ignorant of? If so, you may turn in your law license at the door. If not, then what was your purpose in proclaiming such a silly falsehood to be fact?
You gotta take responsibility for your words and actions in this world, friend. Now step up.
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Guns don’t scare me; Gun owners who really don’t give a shit about other people scare me.
People who don’t give a shit about other people scare me.
Illegal or not, you apparently lost track of the gun and didn’t know where it was despite being a “responsible” gun owner. The point is that just like everyone thinks he’s a good driver when clearly we aren’t all good drivers, every gun owner thinks of himself as responsible with his gun, yet guns are lost, stolen and accidentally discharged regularly.
Which is not a discussion which I was pursuing, so you’re just making a personal attack rather than address the failure of registration.