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    What is the point of owning guns?

    Let us be real.

    What is the purpose in a civilian owning anything beyond revolvers, bolt-action rifles, and shotguns? Those satisfy all sport and defense needs.

    Aside from OCS, the entirety of my experience with guns has been negative with me on the end of them on a few robbery occasions and actually losing two friends to gun violence.

    Obviously, gun control is not feasible but we need to transcend this obsession with guns. Some people (including posters here) treat firearms like cult items. This fetishization of guns probably starts in youth. I wonder about gun ownership rates among those who didn't grow up with guns (ie- first generation gun owners). I imagine they are relatively rare.


    Let's think about other issues. Cannabis should be legal but we should certainly discourage its use, especially among teens. Maintaining Roe but addressing the causes of unwanted pregnancies that lead to abortion would surely be better than overturning Roe while leaving those issues unaddressed. Likewise, we need to discourage gun culture and the motivations behind gun violence.
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    shoot stuff?
    Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

    Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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    • #3
      As Felch said in another thread, this isn't the soviet union. We don't need an affirmative reason to have something.
      If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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      • #4
        haven't we been over this?
        Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

        Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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        • #5
          A million times in a dozen threads, yes.
          If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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          • #6
            Seriously Al why do you wanna be a Marine?
            I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
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            • #7
              Originally posted by DinoDoc View Post
              Seriously Al why do you wanna be a Marine?
              because of all the gay sex?
              I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.
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              • #8
                Originally posted by self biased View Post
                because of all the gay sex?
                That's the Navy.
                I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
                For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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                • #9
                  What's the point of alcohol?

                  Seriously, all my personal experiences with alcohol has been with a alcoholic in the family growing up and another family member that got killed by a drunk driver.

                  We should just ban alcohol.

                  Or maybe require that you get a license before you're allowed to consume it.
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by DinoDoc View Post
                    That's the Navy.

                    Ain't gay if underway.
                    Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Lonestar View Post
                      What's the point of alcohol?

                      Seriously, all my personal experiences with alcohol has been with a alcoholic in the family growing up and another family member that got killed by a drunk driver.

                      We should just ban alcohol.

                      Or maybe require that you get a license before you're allowed to consume it.
                      Like I said, don't ban but discourage its use. I am all for having a culture that discourages alcohol consumption. Don't know how we will get there, though. Same with guns.
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                      "I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi

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                      • #12
                        Fine, but that has **** all to do with government regulation. Folks who would ban guns are simply trying to change our culture through government. They're no different than the abstinence-only sex-ed or commandments-in-court *******s.
                        If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Lonestar View Post
                          Ain't gay if underway.
                          Ain't queer if you're tied to the pier.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Al B. Sure! View Post
                            Like I said, don't ban but discourage its use. I am all for having a culture that discourages alcohol consumption. Don't know how we will get there, though. Same with guns.
                            If .gov tries to regulate alcohol consumption like firearms, I'll believe that statement. Until that day comes...
                            Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.

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                            • #15
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