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Your tolerance level for idiocy is apparently far superior to mine.
I once worked with someone like that. Service-To-Self ™ lizard aliens lived under Denver International Airport and commuted through a vast labyrinth of tunnels to NREL and NOAA whilst preparing for the cataclysmic pole-shift to be caused by the 12th Planet (or Planet X or Nirahu or somedamnthing).
Reason didn’t work with that guy.
eta - ticker, yeah about that. Most are fairly safe nutballs, the kind who bury a cache of arms in the back yard in case the Clinton’s and Reno come door to door confiscating their guns, or think Bubba actually murdered Foster and/or shot down that plane. Very few are the militant, racist wacko’s. But they are the loudest and get more attention because of it.
Juuust wanted to point out that I’m a reasonably sane gun owner over here…
What’s your sport?
Cite?
I’d like to point out that I didn’t really say which category I’m in. You know, if I actually owned guns that is. Which I don’t. Because if I did I’d not admit it on a public message board where the Trilateral Commission could track me down. But I don’t. I lost them all in a freak boating accident. This Wapiti was about to attack and in my haste to escape without harming one of natures most majestic aminals, all my guns fell overboard.
Slithy Tove, you make a good point. It’s true that SDMB skews to the left, but hey, we leftwingers need somewhere to be. I LIKE the 2nd amendment, and support the rights of gun owners to have pretty much whatever they want and can afford (though I am strongly opposed to this whole concealed-carry thing).
Does that qualify as a left wing endorsement of gun rights? It seems obvious to me that there are those who should NOT be allowed firearms- the criminally inclined, the mentally incompetent- and I’m not about to get into what exact sort of lines should be drawn as to who falls into those categories. I don’t feel confident that I alone have the insight to tell who is with it or not. As a society, though, we’re doing OK on that, though we could do much better to reduce gun crimes.
What religious crap is the NRA peddling? I’ve been an NRA member for ten years and I can’t recall a single instance of seeing so much as a mention of Jesus in anything I’ve received from them.
To the OP, I know what you’re saying about gun culture. I grew up among shooters and I live in an area that has a good number. There are certainly some interesting folks involved, to put it mildly.
At my shooting range I don’t see too much of it, though. What reall annoys me is the college kids out there trying out their latest Glock or Bushmaster, playing Rambo to impress their frat buddies. I’d prefer the whacked-out gun nuts to these folks. At least the gun nuts know something about gun safety.
Well - I didn’t document the references to Christianity, nor did I keep 20 years worth of magazines from them, because I’ve never intended to make a big deal out of it. It annoyed me, I got over it (for a while).
There’s a range on the other side of town that’ll rent guns out, I went in there once and it made me profoundly uncomfortable. Psycho gun nuts are, at least, good shots and don’t wave their guns around while… Well, while doing exactly what Renob said.
I suspect the death toll would be far, far higher if a real gun nut ever went off the deep end. Either that, or his target would be the only one to die. I guess it’d depend which end he went off.