What is the point of owning guns?

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See how there's only one pin on the receiver? The shotgun in the picture had two, along the bottom, just like an 870.

[MRT144]

As Felch said in another thread, this isn't the soviet union. We don't need an affirmative reason to have something.

So you own them for no reason at all.

[Aeson]

The points of the guns I own are the firing pin and bayonet.

[Alexander's Horse]

whose feet are those below the shotty?

[MrFun]

I, for one, will cling to my guns and religion.

I own a gun because I want to. It is a free country. Well...at least it used to be.....

How do you feel about pro-gun groups like the Black Panthers?

[Lonestar]

So you own them for no reason at all.

Well, I could say it's because of self defense or home defense purposes.

I could say it's because the AR-15 is for sentimental military reasons.

I could say I got a M1 Garand for historical purposes, and intend on eventually getting every issued long arm in the US Military for the past 100 years ago for the same reason.

I could say it's for sporting purposes.

Or, I could say:

"It's none of your goddamn business how I spend my money and time so long as I'm not hurting other people."

[Ben Kenobi]

It gives me great comfort to know that this opinion was posted by a prospective USMC officer.

[Lonestar]

How do you feel about pro-gun groups like the Black Panthers?

For them.


Gun control was used by Reagan to disarm the Black Panthers while he was governor of CA. Gun control in this country originated as a means to keep firearms out of the hands of the coloreds.

[Hauldren Collider]

So you own them for no reason at all.

Why do you need booze? Or porn? Or violent video games? Or sports cars? Or motorcycles that go faster than 90 mph?

[MichaeltheGreat]

That's the Navy.

As they say, "it's not gay if it's under way."

or "it's not queer unless you're tied to the pier."

[MichaeltheGreat]

It gives me great comfort to know that this opinion was posted by a prospective USMC officer.

Not that I agree that he's a "prospective" officer, but he has first amendment rights to his political beliefs.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Looks like "gun culture" to me. How else would you describe it?

Lots of targets.

[Ben Kenobi]

Not that I agree that he's a "prospective" officer, but he has first amendment rights to his political beliefs.

It doesn't make much sense to me. Wanting to join the marines and asserting that guns have no purpose? How is it possible to hold both ideas at the same time?

[MRT144]

Why do you need booze? Or porn? Or violent video games? Or sports cars? Or motorcycles that go faster than 90 mph?

Feels good/tastes good, stimulates my libido, stimulates my adrenal glands, they don't do anything for me, don't do anything for me.

[MikeH]

What I don't understand about this whole thing is that the vast majority of gun control measures I've seen. eg. registering purchases, requiring id for a purchase etc. are designed to make it harder for the kind of gangbangers Alby posts pictures of in here from getting access to guns, whilst allowing responsible citizens to still own them.

Why on earth would that be a bad thing?