chunk
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What could go wrong?
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Slaphappygamer
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Nightclubs and guns, what can go wrong?
True but I also miss the old days in towns in the west where no one was allowed to carry guns.
Mr. Coffee
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I think there should be at least some restrictions on when you are allowed to kill another person.
People USED to drive around with the gun rack with rifles on it in their pickups here in Warshington. Not anymore. Thieves found it easy to steal from pickups. I doubt that happens in AZ anymore for the same reason. I grew up with a pile of rifles in the house. We seemed to have inherited them. We kids knew not to touch them. At age 10, I learned to shoot a rifle. It was pretty common. Our high school had an outdoor ed class and one day was bring in your rifle for show and tell. Our school bus driver would have the carry on rifles up front with him.
Dunno what happened. I mean, we all knew about guns, gun safety, and not to fool around with them. The rifles were for hunting and or killing vermin. Never for pointing at people.
I tend to snicker when I see somebody open carry--which is legal, I think in our state. It's usually a newcomer who is scared of something or trying to fit in.
I have lived in a ruraler than here part of the state when once the sheriff dept. was going around asking us to get our firearms out and make sure they were loaded. A bad guy was on the loose. When I was on the phone with them about a break in, I was asked if I had a firearm, I said yes, expecting to be told to make sure I didn't shoot a cop, but instead was told Good, keep it handy till we get there.
I just worry now that there are so many guns in the hands of idiots who seem to just be itching to shoot somebody. I see that on another forum that I don't go to anymore.
ChezCheese:)
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One time I was in your neck of the woods, Cowlitz, like Oroville or Republic or some podunk there, and I stopped into the local hardware or general merch store. A guy walks in with a pistol strapped to his hip like he was walking into the saloon at high noon. I thought, what a coward! What on earth was he so afraid of in the Ace Hardware aisles?? And I do not for an instant believe armed bears when they say, I am just so used to carrying a gun, I don't even think about it or I forgot I was wearing it. My @$$. 
tomjasz
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Yeah scrambled brains and concussions were so much better. FFS time to evolve.
tomjasz
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Doubles as a weight for a penile stretcher. Nothing else makes sense.One time I was in your neck of the woods, Cowlitz, like Oroville or Republic or some podunk there, and I stopped into the local hardware or general merch store. A guy walks in with a pistol strapped to his hip like he was walking into the saloon at high noon. I thought, what a coward! What on earth was he so afraid of in the Ace Hardware aisles?? And I do not for an instant believe armed bears when they say, I am just so used to carrying a gun, I don't even think about it or I forgot I was wearing it. My @$$.
Mike_V
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I'm old and easily injured, 'get into it' with me and I will find something to stop you.
First thought of course, My truck ( the only legal way to do it ).
Mr. Coffee
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It might be a deterrent if all criminals were well-informed and rational. We can be pretty sure that is not the case, though.
The only thing I am shooting in self-defense is beer cans.
It could be but mostly is the opposite. A "good guy" with a gun is a good guy right up until he/she makes a stupid decision. Human beings are way to fallible to have that kind of lethal weapon that easy to access. There are enough "trained" cops that do that on a regular basis that proves that point. It's easy to compare the number of gun related deaths per 100,000 people in the USA with other civilized countries that have stricter gun control. Just google it.
tomjasz
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So many concealed carry permits are held by gun owners with limited range time and no developed muscle memory. IMO they're dangerous and a danger to themselves. A gun owner talking s*it on a forum and holding it together in a live shooting incident are millions of miles apart.
Comfortably Numb
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I hope the spelling is correct on the wife's shirt. CN
Probably and the result will be dead Floridians which is just another (of many) reasons I'm glad I don't live there.
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