Why Do You Own Guns?

[Uberman]

Yeah so obviously I am not a fan of guns.

[Iscariot]

hey sweet i turned your rep bar red

[Reaganista]

you forgot the option 'it makes me feel cool'

which would be the most selected if people were honest with themselves

hey sweet i turned your rep bar red

there's rep bars now?

:confused:

[Iscariot]

there have been for a long time

[Reaganista]

well i dont see any > >

[Uberman]

I think the 'it makes me feel cool' option pretty well fits into the first option, since it assuages fears of not being cool.

[Iscariot]

http://img101.mytextgraphics.com/photolava/2007/04/26/rep-469otg6pc.jpg

[Reaganista]

I think the 'it makes me feel cool' option pretty well fits into the first option, since it assuages fears of not being cool.

that's kinda lame imo

http://img101.mytextgraphics.com/photolava/2007/04/26/rep-469otg6pc.jpg

um
mine looks completely different
< <

oh there's an orange skin

[Der Übermensch]

I don't own a weapons classified as a firearm.

Just a .22 pellet gun and an electric airsoft rifles (which looks real). I own them cause they are fun. The former for target shooting, the latter for shooting friends.
I live in DC right now, so there is no point in buying a real firearm, but when (if?) I move back to Maine, I'm going to buy a shotgun, as I've been wanting to take up duck hunting for awhile.
Maybe a handgun too, as Maine has very nice CCW laws.

I can't see rep bars... I didn't even know they existed!!

[Uberman]

Originally posted by Reaganista
you forgot the option 'it makes me feel cool'

okay I admit I should have added that option. I forgot. but people whose guns make them cool can just ignore the poll and give me bad rep.

[Der Übermensch]

How do I get to see these rep bars...?

[Uberman]

down at the bottom of the screen it should say orange. change it to something else, and then back to orange.

[Der Übermensch]

sweet!

Why's it only work in Orange though? I like Light :(

[Uberman]

see the thread on the rep system for an answer

[griftadan]

i don't own alot right now (just a .30 06), but i plan on buying them mainly out of historical curiosity and for target shooting. i suppose protection would be nice too.

[PerpetualBurn]

I own a gun because everyone knows that when someone breaks into my house and robs me, I'm likely to actually be in the house and have easy access to it (even though I'll lock it away because kids could get it). And also because if I don't go to my regular militia meetings the government will come up with all sorts of crazy laws. Like Guantanamo, or the Patriot act.

Edit: so basically this rep bar means I'm amazing or something? Never spied it before.

[Jharaski]

Although I don't have any right now, I will get one because it will protect my family and me. So I guess number one. And I will learn how to use it and respect its power.

[Silly Beach Turtles]

I would just because I'd like to shoot targets

[White Riot!]

For my right to arm bears , of course! :p


lol @ outdated and irrelevant american constitution :) :p :cool:

[Joe McCarthy]

Since I'm not 21 yet, I don't own a gun. I plan on purchasing a pistol for protection soon after I turn 21, though. Couple that with the fact that I intend to become a federal law enforcement officer (FBI, ATF, USSS, etc), I think that's a reasonable explanation for why I will own a gun.

[Der Übermensch]

21?

Wisconsin has some ****ed up laws...

[Iskandar]

I don't need a gun where I live because the chances of needing to defend myself or my home are miniscule.

[ringworm]

why do people have 60" TVs

why do people need monsterous SUVs

why do people waste their life playing silly RPGs



because they want them

there are infinite reasons to own a weapon, many have them for the reasons they cant think of

and i already know the replys i'll get to this
tvs cars and cpu's dont kill people
so dont bother :)

[Pluperfect_Arson]

21?

Wisconsin has some ****ed up laws...

With laws like that, people could join the army and be handed a higher powered weapon at a younger age. :p



Also, for me, I just think guns are interesting. I plan on buying a few at some point; however, they would mainly be for target practise. I am not big on hunting, but I am sure that I could see myself trying it out at some point.

Protection would come from owning the gun, but that would not be my foremost thought on buying a gun in the first place.

[PerpetualBurn]

Guns don't kill people, dangerous minorities do.

[Silly Beach Turtles]

Around blacks, never relax!


:(

I suppose I /might/ end up hunting with a gun, but mainly it'd be for a hey look at me I can hit a ritz cracker from 300 yards

[italic zero]

this dick is a detachable penis
an extension of my manhood positioned like a fetus
an intravenous hook-up feeds bullets to my magazine
nevermind the bullocks, my pistol is a sex machine

[Zesty Mordant]

eh, i don't need a gun. in the event of a break-in i have a tire iron under my bed.

now THAT **** makes you feel like a bad bad man.

[PerpetualBurn]

this dick is a detachable penis
an extension of my manhood positioned like a fetus
an intravenous hook-up feeds bullets to my magazine
nevermind the bullocks, my pistol is a sex machine

A healthy distrust.

[MattSharpIsCool]

I go out with friends and shoot at targets. I'm sure I'll evetually take up hunting.

You have to be 21 to own a handgun. 18 for shotguns or rifles. At least those be the laws in Oregon and Washington.

[Avalanche.]

I hunt, target shoot, and trap shoot.

Something wrong with that, TS?

[StrangeVision]

I like to target shoot. That's basically all I do, although I haven't gone in a while.

[gregulus]

I hunt, target shoot, and trap shoot.

Something wrong with that, TS?

Yes, you make the world a more dangerous place. :rolleyes:

[Badmoon]

Because if need, I will use it.

but I don't have a gone, yet :(

[WhoDidTheElf]

I enjoy hunting (when applicable) and target practice on the weekends. Safety isn't my #1 priority with them, though they are nice to have around.

[Danger Bird]

Because I have a very small penis.

[WhoDidTheElf]

^^And telling a chick you have an M-16 will soooo get you laid.

[Iscariot]

^^And telling a chick you have an M-16 will soooo get you laid.

it will if she likes guns too

[PerpetualBurn]

It will if she thinks she might get shot otherwise.

[Iscariot]

that works too either way you're gonna get some

[Left Shoe]

you forgot family tradition. my family passes down guns, and we go target shooting

[StrawberryFieldsForever]

Im from Canada, that's why I don't own a gun.

If I gotta hunt I use a bow and arrow.

[Iscariot]

Im from Canada, that's why I don't own a gun.

lol what

there are about 2.2 million registered gun owners in canada and well over 10 million firearms in the country what does living in canada have to do with not owning a gun

[stevensonmat2]

I own guns because my grandpa gave them to me; so, there they are. I don't ever use them, though.

[Spatula87]

I think that any rational person can protect themself without the need for a hand gun and karma usually plays a big part in peoples lives when they do own a gun.

Bless congress for eliminating every single gun control law that has ever even made it to Washington, BIG STEP FORWARD.

[Iscariot]

most people would rather have a weapon and not need it than need one and not have it

the people who refuse to protect themselves are usually the ones who are targets for criminals

[gaslight]

I don't have one, gun laws are pretty strict around here.

[BigBadBooDooDady]

I'm a cop but I guess you could check all the other ones for me too.

[Iskandar]

the people who refuse to protect themselves are usually the ones who are targets for criminals
But I have no pressing need to protect myself.

[Iscariot]

But I have no pressing need to protect myself.

most people would rather have a weapon and not need it than need one and not have it

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[Iskandar]

I don't want a weapon because I don't need one. However, I want to retain the option to purchase one legally should I ever require to do so.

[Iscariot]

well to each their own

[StrawberryFieldsForever]

lol what

there are about 2.2 million registered gun owners in canada and well over 10 million firearms in the country what does living in canada have to do with not owning a gun

They all live in Toronto.

[Smokey D]

most people would rather have a weapon and not need it than need one and not have it

the people who refuse to protect themselves are usually the ones who are targets for criminals

Most crime where you could protect yourself with a gun doesn't have that much forethought put into it. Crimes that do have a lot of forethought put into them are pretty hard to defend against. I don't think people who don't like guns are disproportionately represented in the people targetted for crime stat.

I suppose they might be more highly represented in the people on whom a crime was actually completed stat.

[deadinholywood]

I'm a cop but I guess you could check all the other ones for me too.

Where do you serve and how long have you been one?

[slashjunior]

This is just lazyiness on the governments part. It is basically saying they cannot be bother to sort out the social differences in society and looking at the causes of crime and how to prevent it from happening in the first place. I know! Instead lets just give everyone guns so if there is a criminal then someone can shoot them and that is one less criminal to worry about in society! Ye-haw!

So sad. America has some of the highest crime rates in the world, guns obviously do not help, it is because America just totally forgets about the poor within their own country too busy trying to make other countries better or try and force them to comply with the capitalist system and American culture when they can't even sort out their own country. And then people are surprised when crime is so high in America when the government don't have any interests in its citizens, just its multi-national corporations and protecting its global domination. Moreover, people then wonder why so many other nations despise America and terrorists wanting to blow the **** out of it, because it is a simple message, leave us to run our own countries rather than trying to act as some parental figure in the world.

[MattSharpIsCool]

You make it seem like America is the only country in the world with poor people.

I don't know why crime rates are higher in America. But I do know gun ownership really has no relation to crime rates.

[pedro durruti]

I don't see how, given America's particular circumstances as a a society, the right to own firearms doesn't have have a significant effect on gun violence.

[slashjunior]

Then that is a contradiction of terms. Most people on here say they have a gun to protect themselves against criminals and then you say that gun ownership has no relationship to crime, so why in fact do you need guns in the first place? From the sounds of it people own guns to try and lower crime rates, but it is evident that it doesn't help at all.

If someone came up to me in the UK and stole say my stole my wallet, all I have lost is say £30 cash, I can cancel all my cards and everything and inform the police who could possibly find them; one life saved, £30 lost. In the US if someone stole your wallet you simply shoot them and take back you wallet, no money lost and no need to cancel your cards, but one thing is lost that is worth way more than any material possession and that is a mans life. Basically Americans are saying their material possessions are so important to them that they are willing to kill a man to protect it. That to me is a very shallow way of thinking. Also take into account that if you fight back then you are more likely to get yourself shot, is it worth it for say protecting your iPod?

[Iscariot]

I don't see how, given America's particular circumstances as a a society, the right to own firearms doesn't have have a significant effect on gun violence.

switzerland pretty much hands guns to it's citizens and they have one of the lowest gun crime rates in the world

[SippyCup]

I have been a collector of guns, and antique rifles and shotguns since I was about 12 and my dad gave me a Japanese Bayonette from the war. I have over 50 guns now in good working order. I am 25 years old, I would not hesitate to use a gun to protect my family or loved ones.
I also respect the deadly force a gun can create and never mess around with my weapons.

[pedro durruti]

switzerland pretty much hands guns to it's citizens and they have one of the lowest gun crime rates in the world
Is that really an adequate counterexample? Switzerland's population is incredibly smaller than ours, they have a completely different culture (media, I might add, is a huge part of culture, and our media celebrates fear and violence as a form of entertainment, and has its other uses of course), and their longstanding defensive neutrality has probably had some effect on their citizenry.

[MattSharpIsCool]

Then that is a contradiction of terms. Most people on here say they have a gun to protect themselves against criminals and then you say that gun ownership has no relationship to crime, so why in fact do you need guns in the first place? From the sounds of it people own guns to try and lower crime rates, but it is evident that it doesn't help at all.

If someone came up to me in the UK and stole say my stole my wallet, all I have lost is say £30 cash, I can cancel all my cards and everything and inform the police who could possibly find them; one life saved, £30 lost. In the US if someone stole your wallet you simply shoot them and take back you wallet, no money lost and no need to cancel your cards, but one thing is lost that is worth way more than any material possession and that is a mans life. Basically Americans are saying their material possessions are so important to them that they are willing to kill a man to protect it. That to me is a very shallow way of thinking. Also take into account that if you fight back then you are more likely to get yourself shot, is it worth it for say protecting your iPod?

Most gun-owning citizens aren't going to shoot someone unless they're threatened with a gun first. Believe it or not, most people DO in fact realize that shooting someone really does kill them. 99% of gun-owners never even fire their gun, except at targets or for fun.

Like someone mentioned earlier, in Maine nearly everyone owns a gun, but gun violence is pretty much non-existant. Same goes for Canada. I think I read somewhere there are more guns in Canada than people, but very rarely is there a gun crime.

If I'm getting robbed at gunpoint, I'm going to want something to even up the odds. I'm not going to automatically open fire on the guy, but if I have to, then so be it. Criminals will always have a way to get them. Why should they be the only ones armed?