I think I saw a video once of a guy named Paul Harrell talking about self defense and ‘accessories’.
His POV was that hopefully nothing bad will ever happen and hopefully you’ll never have use the item to put down someone attacking you. That said, if you do, you have to realistically expect some processes will take place.
The police will come and take the gun. A prosecutor will get involved as will a judge and possibly a grand jury while your gun sits on an evidence table for everyone to look at. Now, do you want them to see a plain old gun, something that looks like your Grandfather’s hand me down? Something that looks non-threatening and ‘community normal’? Or do you want them to see a gun with all of these bangs and whistles and tactical accessory attachments that make you seem (to them) to be a Junior Commando Wannabee, possibly a head case, and possibly a continued threat to the community?
It may not seem fair to you, but yes you will be judged by appearances… and that judgement may decide if you’ll be charged and tried for a crime or not.
No you weren’t. You heard someone criticizing your choices and engaged in typical conservative moral reasoning of “by disagreeing with me, they’re basically calling me a Nazi, so I’d better become a Nazi to protect myself.”
In other words, the soft-headed childish posturing of someone who claims no agency over their own actions.
You too. Grow up and own your shit. If you claim you want to protect yourself because MAGAs are more dangerous than ever, fine. Make that affirmative choice. I wouldn’t disagree, or at least not very strongly.
But when you say “Republicans made me do this evil thing that I didn’t want to do…” well, congratulations, you’re officially no different than they are.
I have to ask, what’s the difference between a 3000 psi air rifle, and a straight up 22 long rifle? Both are pushing 900-1200 fps with the same diameter projectile, even if the pellet is lighter.
Seems like quibbling about what is and isn’t a gun for legal purposes. (i.e. the law says you can’t have a rifle, but you can have an “air gun”, so they make one that’s essentially a rifle for all intents and purposes.)
The difference is the weight of the projectile and the ft/lbs of energy a heavier projectile will exert.
For instance, I use a 2x8 as my backstop. I staple targets to it for the air rifle. It penetrates the wood about 3/8’s of an inch. A .22 lr would likely go right through it.
The difference for my self is that the air rifle is pretty much silent, so I can shoot in my own ‘yard’ (I have 2 acres, and no neighbors. Of course you still treat it as you would any fire arm.
My 2 acres backs up to forest service land, and we get hikers wandering around. I don’t want to scare them or ruin their fun with a regular fire arm.
Adults make their own decisions. “Look what you made me do” is something that’s only said by children, bullies, and domestic abusers. Be a grown-up.
Moron. “Both-sides-ism” is when you declare that bad behavior is OK because the other side is doing it too. I’m saying the opposite here - bad behavior is bad behavior, it doesn’t matter what the other side is doing.
“Just because someone said to your face they were literally ready to willingly murder you doesn’t mean it’s their fault you decided to prepare to defend yourself”.
Technically true, but the comparison to domestic abusers is kind of shitty, given that it’s more like the abused party acting in self-defense.
Owning and enjoying firearms and maybe having one in the house just in case is sort of gun culture.
Joining the NRA and opposing any form of reasonable gun control and carrying eight sidearms with you when you go to Quiznos is GUN CULTURE.
The OP is the former, not the latter.
This is true ON AVERAGE. As the old joke goes, a statistician will tell you if one leg is on fire and the other is in a block of ice, on average you’re comfortable. The OP is an individual case, not an average.
You do not know, and from what I can tell haven’t even put any thought at all into, whether the OP is safer with or without a gun. Absent relevant evidence, whether the OP’s decision is rational is something you have zero knowledge of. The average household being less safe with a firearm includes many, many people who are rather less responsible sounding and vastly more reckless than the OP likely is, the sort of idiots who have a loaded and chambered weapon in their car where the kids can reach it, or who don’t bother taking safety classes and so fiddle around with a gun they “thought was unloaded,” or any number of idiocies. You also don’t know what neighborhood the OP lives in, what other specific or general threats they may know of, how they plan to store and secure the weapon, whether the OP is violent or insane, and a variety of other factors.
Yes, or they could be responsible gun owners. You don’t know the OP. Archery, incidentally, is as different from shooting as volleyball and squash.
I think I remember a post some years ago in a gun news thread here, where some idiot shot herself by masturbating with a pistol.
All I’m saying is, be careful.
So, I go to your wife and say I am going to give her a beat down.
YOU step in and confront me. Why…you are just as bad as me! Your pleas of ‘he made me confront him!’ fall on deaf ears.
You tell me to grow up. I say you should turn that mirror around.
Sometimes one side is wrong. Your trying to be cool with your ‘bothsideism’ and feel good about your ‘maturity’ could likely be the immature one? Be a grown up and look critically at yourself and stop trying to look like the rational and cool one by insulting both sides. You may fool some but to most you look like a clown.
