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flamin lib

(14,559 posts)
Tue Sep 15, 2015, 01:39 PM Sep 2015

Why can't we have nice things?

People have the right to openly carry long guns in many states, a law dates back a hundred years and that was intended to let people in rural areas have rifles and shotguns for protection of self and livestock. What do Gun Enthusiasts do? They strap a loaded assault weapon on and parade around grocery stores and family restaurants scaring hell out of normal people.

States grant people the right of concealed carry. Gun Enthusiasts piss and moan until they are allowed to carry the guns openly on their hips so they can intimidate everyone else and broadcast their fantasy of getting into a gunfight and saving everyone. Except everyone gives them a wide berth so as not be shot by the bad guy with a gun who will shoot the open carry good guy first.

The Houston Zoo is a place where families with little children go to have a fun outing and enjoy a day of looking at the animals and relaxation. The Zoo has a sign asking gun owners to leave their concealed carry weapons home. A second amendment lawyer who makes a living defending people who discharge their weapons in public sues the Zoo forcing them to allow concealed carry guns (and as of January 1, 2016 open carry guns) around little kids and their parents.

Guns are allowed in National Parks after years of being restricted to National Forests. What do Gun Enthusiasts do? They begin to shoot up the place, taking old refrigerators and other large pieces of junk to the parks to shoot up, set up impromptu firing ranges that cross roads and trails and, at least one of them, shoots a retired man about to roast marsh mallows with his grand kids.

That's why we can't have nice things. The gun nuts fuck it up for everybody else.

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Why can't we have nice things? (Original Post) flamin lib Sep 2015 OP
Shooting range HassleCat Sep 2015 #1
You are very brave! ellisonz Sep 2015 #4
cryptic msg jimmy the one Sep 2015 #2
Anus Theists, Satin Tushes, Ate Shit Suns, Electric Monk Sep 2015 #5
Nothing good ever came out of guns as a social item. n/t ellisonz Sep 2015 #3
 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
1. Shooting range
Tue Sep 15, 2015, 01:56 PM
Sep 2015

When I worked for the Forest Service, I had to patrol an area that included an informal shooting range. It was so heavily used that several fir trees of two to three feet diameter had been felled by gunfire. Eventually, a guy shot and killed a man "...to see how it felt..." and they closed the place to shooting. What made me nervous was that the line of fire was across a road, just as you say. When I drove up there, I had to stop, get out of my truck, talk to the shooters to make sure they would hold their fire, then drive through.

jimmy the one

(2,717 posts)
2. cryptic msg
Wed Sep 16, 2015, 11:19 AM
Sep 2015

FL: Gun Enthusiasts

Let's see how many words we can make from the letters in 'enthusiasts'.
I'll go first.
N U T S = NUTS

But only about 10% I need add.

 

Electric Monk

(13,869 posts)
5. Anus Theists, Satin Tushes, Ate Shit Suns,
Thu Sep 17, 2015, 03:47 PM
Sep 2015

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