Give open carriers credit for some courage in their fantasies, at least. They are happy to let everyone around them *know *they’re assholes looking for some excuse to act out a deadly fantasy. Concealed carriers are cowards about it.
Had that bad day yet or are all the toddlers in your neighborhood safe for the moment, ElvisLives?
Apparently there was supposed to be a question under all that childish babble. Not worth the trouble to try to dig it out, though.
Gun nuts intent on “doing God’s will” are narrowly thwarted by a Good Man Without A Gun.
Of course guns are designed to kill. It would be a poor hunting weapon that only maimed and injured its prey. It would be much less of a deterrent against criminals if your gun was only going to inflict pain and temporary injury.
I understand the notion behind using this form of “exposure therapy” to get people comfortable with guns but at this point I think we can call the experiment a failure. You are never going to cure people of hoplophobia by waving a gun in their face. They will never have the ability to outlaw guns (especially in the sort of places where this sort of open carry is possible) and you are basically pissing off people in your own choir.
Yeah? What part of Virginia are you in?
I bet its not the suburbs of DC.
Nope, skippy, I’m just taking you at your own word. You have gone on record about gun owners all being one bad day away from murder. So, are you just one bad day away from raping and murdering toddlers? How can you guarantee that you aren’t? You tend to talk a lot of stupid shit, but you never really answer any questions. Of course, since Gonzomax left you are, without question, the stupidest asshole on the boards…
Guns are designed to kill things; penises aren’t designed to rape and murder toddlers. That’s your strange little comparison, isn’t it? Gun is to murder as penis is to rape?
Hey Elvis, try not to let that thing go off while you’re cleaning it.
Tell the guy making the comparison.
And then tell us all why you should be considered responsible enough to ask Daddy to let you even touch his. His gun, that is. You’re not making a good case so far.
Good. Now tell us what else guns are used for.
There is no information in the article to suggest that said asshole was doing anything other than being an asshole. You’ve made the same point yourself, just a few posts up. Now cut the shit.
You are never going to convince people you are responsible by fascinatedly repeating a word you got from some NRA fundraising e-mail, and which exists nowhere else, certainly not in the profession of psychology. And you will certainly not convince anyone by continuing to refuse to acknowledge points being made that fear of getting killed is not an irrational phobia. Now cut that shit, too.
You can never do something you do not try to do. Almost all of the civilized world has indeed done it, and so can we. If anyone but you fetishists is getting pissed off about the subject, and not about people getting killed by you fetishists, there is no evidence to support that claim of yours, either.
The world is not a video game. Sane adults understand that. You do not.
I misspoke. You will not necessarily be arrested for open carry open carry of a handgun. You will occasionally be hassled for open carry and you might get arrested.
I have a permit to carry a concealed handgun as well and I would feel fairly comfortable carrying a handgun openly in some places but I know I would get hassled if I walked down Arlington Blvd in Arlington County (suburb of DC) carrying handgun openly.
I was referring to open carry of an AR-15. I suppose it would be treated similarly to a handgun if you carried it in a rifle sheath across your back but who the hell does that.
Other than killing?
I suppose sports shooting. But why does it have to have a purpose other than killing?
The ability to kill allows you to use a gun in self defense, it deters crime, it allows you to kill animals for meat.
“Grisham tells local news outlet KTAB that “an armed society is a polite society.” Guns are “not designed to kill,” Grisham tells reporters. “They’re not designed to shoot up movie theaters and schools. We’re trying to show what law abiding citizens look like that carry firearms and really remove that stigma.””
See the bold italicized underlined part? This is open carry Texas, exposure therapy (as I describe it) is what they do. Now cut the shit, its getting tiresome and the only one that is “just being an asshole” is you.
I don’t need to convince you of anything. The status quo suits me just fine, you are the one that bears the burden of convincing and frankly there aren’t enough hoplophobes to reshape the world in your image democratically.
Its not a medical diagnosis (yet). But its a real word, I didn’t invent it, its been around longer than I’ve been alive.
Yeah, I suppose you’ll never find a unicorn if you don’t look for one.
Probably not in the lifetime of anyone who is alive today. I doubt we will ever repeal the second amendment democratically but I guess anything could happen.
The “in your face” pen carry folks are pissing off plenty of run of the mill gun owners. Believe me or not, its up to you.
That’s a weird thing to say. I’ve described the epiphonous moment for me during the LA riots when I realized the value of the second amendment. In what way do you think that I think life is a video game?
You’re the one made the assertion that anybody could be one bad day from murdering his family, asshole. How about you? What atrocities could getting bitched out at work push you into? You are a weasely piece of shit, as you’ve shown many times. Answer the question, coward, or just admit you were talking your usual stupid shit when you made the assertion.
That is the thread where ElvisL1ves made his original stupid-ass assertions and then unceremoniously bailed when asked whether that thinking could be applied to him as well. My guess is he had someone read “The Killing Joke” to him and got to thinking that made him an intellectual.
Nitpick: Good Woman Without A Gun.
Ah, yes, my apologies to all good people without guns.
And you really think this post shows you’re serious and responsible enough to be trusted with anything more than a box of crayons. :rolleyes:
And what else? You’re leaving something out, aren’t you?
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It would support your position much better to quote somebody you haven’t already declared to be an irresponsible asshole. But, if that’s all you’ve got, then that’s all you’ve got - it should make you think a little.
How about showing us anything from anywhere in the realm of psychology or medicine that discusses this therapy, or describes it as curing anything recognized as a disorder by somebody other than the gun-fetishist community? There isn’t anything, is there? Now why do you suppose that is?
See above comment to Scumpup.
You do if you are completely confident that nothing can or will ever change. That is another sign of psychosis in you, however.
No, it isn’t. The fact that you think it might become one demonstrates your deludedness.
Now tell us you know who invented it and why. :rolleyes:
That isn’t who you were referring to, you dishonest sicko. But we know what happens when gunstrokers get mad, don’t we? Yes, that’s you.
In that you can generate the fantasy of killing “bad guys” with the gun you carry just hoping for the situation to arise. You won’t limit yourself to playing Call of Duty or something, you actually go around being an actual threat to actual people. That dissociation is another form of psychological disorder, that should disqualify you from carrying.
Maybe. What’s your point? Why are you being coy?
Wow, you are a world class idiot. I said that this guy was an asshole and that the whole exposure therapy to cure hoplophobia is probably a failure. You said there is no evidence that this guy was trying to engage in exposure therapy. I show you a quote where the particular asshole in question indicates that he is trying to engage in open carry as exposure therapy. And your response is that I am relying on the words of an asshole so that somehow puts my theory of said asshole engaging in exposure therapy into question? Whose words do you think would be a better indicator of the asshole’s intentions? You really are doing more harm to your cause than good.
**DA **- you’re talking to a piece of lint that makes noises. Feel free to stop anytime.