Americans: You have te right to bear arms

[LAJ]

UGH... just fuckin great.

[Hell Puppy]

Careful, I haven't used my once a year gun control post yet.

I also only post once a year on abortion and religion. Sometimes I work all 3 into a single post.

[EmporerEJ]

Originally Posted by LAJ

UGH... just fuckin great.

Don't worry Jay....doesn't mean you HAVE to carry a gun.
You're welcome to go around nekked as much as you want.

(I'll keep carrying mine though, thank you very much.)

[Nymph]

My husband say's an armed society is a polite society. The problem is not gun control, it's criminal control. A criminal by deffinition does not obey the law, so laws only effect the law abiding people.

If someone doesn't want to own/carry a gun fine, that's their choice....no one is telling them they have to.

If I want to own/carry a gun, then that's my choice. We now own and have securely in our gun safe, 13 hand guns (1 semi-automatic, 3 double action revolvers, 9 single action revolvers), 8 shotguns (2 of which are for sale), and 3 rifles....and surprisingly, we've never killed anyone with any of them.

[RawAlex]

Originally Posted by Nymph

My husband say's an armed society is a polite society. The problem is not gun control, it's criminal control. A criminal by deffinition does not obey the law, so laws only effect the law abiding people.

If someone doesn't want to own/carry a gun fine, that's their choice....no one is telling them they have to.

If I want to own/carry a gun, then that's my choice. We now own and have securely in our gun safe, 13 hand guns (1 semi-automatic, 3 double action revolvers, 9 single action revolvers), 8 shotguns (2 of which are for sale), and 3 rifles....and surprisingly, we've never killed anyone with any of them.

I have to ask the obvious question: What the heck so you need 24 guns for?

[gonzo]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

I have to ask the obvious question: What the heck so you need 24 guns for?

Watch Cabin Fever

[Nymph]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

I have to ask the obvious question: What the heck so you need 24 guns for?

Only 1 is actually mine. The Ruger Blackhawk 357 magnum single action.

Three are my 13 year old son's...1 he inherited from my daddy, 1 from his father's dad, and one my husband bought him for the classes he takes in gun safety & shooting.

All the others are my husbands, and he is a hunter, so that explains the shotguns & rifle. The hand guns are mostly kept for appreciation $ value...kinda nice when you can sell one and double or triple your money

[helix]

I like to cling to my guns when the economy is bad.

[gonzo]

Originally Posted by Nymph

Only 1 is actually mine. The Ruger Blackhawk 357 magnum single action.

Three are my 13 year old son's...1 he inherited from my daddy, 1 from his father's dad, and one my husband bought him for the classes he takes in gun safety & shooting.

All the others are my husbands, and he is a hunter, so that explains the shotguns & rifle. The hand guns are mostly kept for appreciation $ value...kinda nice when you can sell one and double or triple your money

Ruger SP 101 .357 mag.

[EmporerEJ]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

I have to ask the obvious question: What the heck so you need 24 guns for?

Do you ask that when someone has 24 golf balls?

How about, "why do you ask?"
How about, "because she wants them?"
Why does it matter "how many" someone has?
It's bad enough we have to register them, and we can be criminally prosecuted, if some jackass steals them and we don't report it to the right agency. And then we go through the indignity of all these questions again.


But let me give you the real easy answer that you peaceniks never seem to get: Because THEY have them. "They" being anyone, government, or civilian that wishes to do us (me) harm. At the "core" of the "American way," Is the innate right to be at equal footing with anyone, anywhere in the world.
And while I think most Americans don't go looking for a fight, we simply don't bend a knee to anyone.

[bluemoney]

Rossi .357 Revolver

[Nymph]

I'm still mad from when my hubby sold the matched pair of Colt single action army, third generation, 44 special, with pearl grips

[RawAlex]

Originally Posted by EmporerEJ

Do you ask that when someone has 24 golf balls?

How about, "why do you ask?"
How about, "because she wants them?"
Why does it matter "how many" someone has?
It's bad enough we have to register them, and we can be criminally prosecuted, if some jackass steals them and we don't report it to the right agency. And then we go through the indignity of all these questions again.

No, I think the question is valid. I would ask the same question to a man with 10,000 golf balls. I ask the same question to a friend of mine who owns about 50 cars (half of them real junk). I would ask the same question to someone with 11 TVs in their living room.

How many is a pretty valid question: How many guns do you need for self defence?

[EmporerEJ]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

No, I think the question is valid. I would ask the same question to a man with 10,000 golf balls. I ask the same question to a friend of mine who owns about 50 cars (half of them real junk). I would ask the same question to someone with 11 TVs in their living room.

How many is a pretty valid question: How many guns do you need for self defence?

As many as I want. But every one of them can do the job, so what's the point of asking?
If I want to "share" my collection with you, I would.
But I find the question more akin to "How many Dollars do you have?"
Why are you asking? Do you want to rob me or something?

How many dollars Do YOU have? I think it's a "valid" question.

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by EmporerEJ

we have to register them

No you don't. Or at least I don't

[EmporerEJ]

Originally Posted by sarettah

No you don't. Or at least I don't

Not long guns.....
But Handguns we do. And that's the point of contention here.

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

I have to ask the obvious question: What the heck so you need 24 guns for?

Excellent investments actually. They never go down in value

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by Nymph

8 shotguns (2 of which are for sale)

Mossberg 500 per chance? Looking for one of them

[Nymph]

Originally Posted by sarettah

Mossberg 500 per chance? Looking for one of them

Nope, sorry sweetie they are a Stoeger Uplander 20 guage side by side, and a Stevens 411 12 guage side by side.