You mean like CA's ban on open carry and most jurisdictions refusal to grant a concealed carry permit, thereby creating a constructive denial of 2nd Amendment rights?.........snip......
I do predict steadily increasing limitations on the legal capacity of individuals to own and use guns.
Just like that, yes.You mean like CA's ban on open carry and most jurisdictions refusal to grant a concealed carry permit, thereby creating a constructive denial of 2nd Amendment rights?
^^^^^This. What exactly, from a Euro perspective is a "gun culture"? A lot of Americans have guns and don't spend a lot of time thinking about it. They are tools and/or rec items thought about when time to use them. I also don't spend any time thinking about all the power tools or ag equipment I own until I need to use them. Am I a member of a power tool or ag equipment culture? As Bear said, I think it is a politicized and ginned up conceptWe don't hear much about it here except media orgiastically covering mass shootings and wailing "what about the children!?" Sharing TV with reality shows with e.g. duck hunting themes.
I have seen very little organized Gun Culture. I suspect the term is used by the anti-gun interests to imply the idea that gun owners are collective thinkers. (Sly way to call them Communists.)
Private gun ownership is a guarantee of a big personal freedom. Individual freedom is being declared passé ... indeed as obstructing the creation of a brave new world in which the sheer unpredictability of individuals thinking and acting for themselves interferes with the benevolent lordship of our Betters.
The gun has been chosen as a symbol of this war between individualists and collective thinkers. I don't think the war is over, or even properly begun. Wait ... it is properly begun if I can see that the gun is being used by both sides as divisive. Step 2 is conquer.
I do predict steadily increasing limitations on the legal capacity of individuals to own and use guns.
Ehh a lot of the other hunters I know are more likely to invade a Golden Corral then join an army lol. Just owning a weapon does not an army make.I'm kind of confused about what OP wants from this thread? A discussion about 'murica and guns?
As BluntMassa mentioned, American hunters would be the largest army in the world (12.7 mil active US hunters) and would cause any country to think twice about invading. Of course, no stoner is allowed to own a firearm in the US because we're all dangerous and unpredictable.
LOL, yep I doubt 12 million American's could cooperate on anythingEhh a lot of the other hunters I know are more likely to invade a Golden Corral then join an army lol. Just owning a weapon does not an army make.
Whitetail hunting in the NE at least isn't much of a challenge. Some of the fuckers I see out (with the most bone collector stickers on their purposefully left on mud trucks) waddle out to get hammered and maybe blast a button buck from 30 yards. Their idea of stalking is the trail of Busch cans and Skoal tins they left on the way to the tree stand.
Of course I don't mean Alaska. I think you are born with a 30-30 and beard up there.
Well it'd be a really shitty invasion force, but as freedom fighters or whatever there really isn't that much coordination needed. Individual cells can operate much the same as iraqi and afghani "terrorists" do. I'd bet money that at least half the people fighting against the world police that is the US and nato are just villagers that are pissed off at soldiers being dickheads in their villages.LOL, yep I doubt 12 million American's could cooperate on anything
I was also of this mindset which is why I was surprised when Chicago and DC recently lifted their handgun ban. I always assumed the first step in dominating a given populace was to disarm them. So why this recent move? Like we needed more guns in Chicago of all places? I never thought we'd see concealed carry here. I'm not at all against owning firearms, although I don't personally. Mainly because if my grow op is found I don't want a lot of cash or any guns in my place to compound my felony. Doesn't this seem strange?We don't hear much about it here except media orgiastically covering mass shootings and wailing "what about the children!?" Sharing TV with reality shows with e.g. duck hunting themes.
I have seen very little organized Gun Culture. I suspect the term is used by the anti-gun interests to imply the idea that gun owners are collective thinkers. (Sly way to call them Communists.)
Private gun ownership is a guarantee of a big personal freedom. Individual freedom is being declared passé ... indeed as obstructing the creation of a brave new world in which the sheer unpredictability of individuals thinking and acting for themselves interferes with the benevolent lordship of our Betters.
The gun has been chosen as a symbol of this war between individualists and collective thinkers. I don't think the war is over, or even properly begun. Wait ... it is properly begun if I can see that the gun is being used by both sides as divisive. Step 2 is conquer.
I do predict steadily increasing limitations on the legal capacity of individuals to own and use guns.
We hear very little this side of the Atlantic ocean about US gun law, or, indeed, US gun culture (yep; that's how it is portrayed in the media over here)..maybe a "nutter shoots colleagues" kind of thing at the end of the TV news....
We understand the point of armed revolution against an oppressive government (Oh, the royal arse/ass is still red from that 1783 spanking ), and that's why the government want to relieve you of them....but there's more to it..isn't there????...
Guns...wtf?....
Cultural exchange anyone?
I was also of this mindset which is why I was surprised when Chicago and DC recently lifted their handgun ban. I always assumed the first step in dominating a given populace was to disarm them. So why this recent move? Like we needed more guns in Chicago of all places? I never thought we'd see concealed carry here. I'm not at all against owning firearms, although I don't personally. Mainly because if my grow op is found I don't want a lot of cash or any guns in my place to compound my felony. Doesn't this seem strange?
Exactly the reason Afghanistan has and will never be conquered. Not too shabby for a bunch of cave dwelling goat hearders, hashish and opium farmers.Well it'd be a really shitty invasion force, but as freedom fighters or whatever there really isn't that much coordination needed. Individual cells can operate much the same as iraqi and afghani "terrorists" do. I'd bet money that at least half the people fighting against the world police that is the US and nato are just villagers that are pissed off at soldiers being dickheads in their villages.
I wonder if everyone at Columbine was armed, how the outcome might have changed. I wonder if part of the problem is to few guns? Then again I had mandatory public health education so I could be very wrong.We as Americans have accepted the violence and death we visit on each other as a cost of free gun ownership. Columbine confirmed this.
The question becomes who controls the guns. Who has all the guns in a city with a gun ban?I was also of this mindset which is why I was surprised when Chicago and DC recently lifted their handgun ban. I always assumed the first step in dominating a given populace was to disarm them. So why this recent move? Like we needed more guns in Chicago of all places? I never thought we'd see concealed carry here. I'm not at all against owning firearms, although I don't personally. Mainly because if my grow op is found I don't want a lot of cash or any guns in my place to compound my felony. Doesn't this seem strange?
I'm in where do I get my tank, RPG launcher, 6920LE, since I'm a pilot can I get an Apache too? Hurry, I wanna get my helmet bag monogrammed to read Red Thunder.......snip.........
I say this means that any weapon a police officer may use on the job is one to which the Second guarantees a citizen's right to access and ownership. Police using .50-caliber rifles? No prob so long as I can get mine at Walmart. Any more restrictive attitude I consider legally untenable.
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You can get all that shit in Mexico where they have outlawed guns, see how that worked out.I'm in where do I get my tank, RPG launcher, 6920LE, since I'm a pilot can I get an Apache too? Hurry, I wanna get my helmet bag monogrammed to read Red Thunder.