The Partisan Divide on Issues

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(07-11-2020, 11:43 AM)TnT Wrote: As a flaming liberal with a roomful of guns, I'm mostly puzzled by the concealed carry folks as well as the owners of the so-called "AR-15".

It's like saying "The orange is the perfect food!"  "I don't need protein or complex carbohydrates or vegetables; the orange is what I want!"

For example, let's say hypothetically that I have a S&W .357 revolver, a Remington 12 gauge Wingmaster shotgun, a Remington 700 .270 with a nice Nikon scope, a Winchester 30:30 saddle rifle, and the Remington bolt action .22 that I got when I was a kid.  And let's further assume that I'm familiar with all, can field strip and clean them and maintain them except for skilled tasks best left for real gunsmiths.  And that I've been coached and trained on the proper safety measures.

Question #1.  How do I differ from the typical "AR-15" owner?  Answer:  The AR-15 owner has probably never been around firearms until he got his rifle.  Chances are the only other firearm he has, if any, is a Glock .40 pistol.  Training?  Virtually none.  Safety?  None - no gun safe, no idea of how much he risks.  

Question #2.  What can the "AR-15" owner do better, or even as well as, I can do by selecting the proper tool for the circumstances?  Answer:  Nothing, other than, perhaps, shooting up a classroom full of third graders.

Question #3.  What, if anything, does the average "AR-15"/Glock owner actually DO with his firearms?  Answer:  It's like buying a treadmill - it gets used decreasingly over time until finally it ends up in the basement or garage collecting dust.  Sure.  They go to the range a couple times, shoot up a few boxes, and then it dwindles down to nothing.  But ask them about the safety or appropriateness of them having these items laying around their house and OMG!  All of a sudden we've got a Second Amendment constitutional lawyer on our hands.

Question #4.  Where do the "bad guys with guns" get their guns?  Answer:  By burglarizing the cars and houses of the "good guys with guns."  Can you even imagine it?!  Keeping a Glock somewhere in your vehicle all the time?  Our cops keep telling the general public here in my city to not leave firearms in their cars.  Dear god.

Question #5.  What is worse than bringing a knife to a gunfight? (To quote the old adage.)  Answer:  Bringing a gun to a gunfight.  Explanation:  Gunfights, by definition, come in infinite varieties.  Every circumstance is different.  There is no way to predict how one might be challenged such that having a firearm might be of any value.  One thing is guaranteed - if a gunfight breaks out, and if I have a gun, I'm IN the gunfight whether I like it or not.  Whether the cops or the "bad guy" shoots me is up for grabs, because I'm not wearing a cop's uniform.  And god help me if I'm black, and a "good guy with a gun."

Question #6.  What is better than my S&W .357 for defending my home?  Answer:  A baseball bat and a yappy little dog.  Why?  Because I get to know the invader is coming.  My pistol won't wake me up barking.  I have to concede that my Wingmaster plus the yappy dog is about as good as it gets.

My bottom line opinion is that the vast majority of new gun owners, over the last couple decades, have no business owning their firearms.  This crap has turned our country into a tinderbox, peopled with limp-dicked wannabes who think that slinging an "AR-15" in front of them, like a real marine, turns them into saviors of our civilization.

Superficiality abounds.

You have a lot of weapons that use specific rounds. I don't think you differ from the typical AR-15 owner as much as you think these days. You are rare because you are one of the few legal gun owners still aligned with today's Left. So, is anyone telling the crooks to stop breaking into cars and stealing weapons or shooting them for doing it? So, who is controlling who in blue America these days? The criminals seem to have the upper hand in blue areas these days and the blue's cops seem powerless and unable to do much about all their petty thief's? Why is that? Why would a police force point their finger at their gun owners and blame them for the actions of a bunch of thieves in the community or a bunch of thieves located in another community located relatively close to them?

Me, I don't have a room full of guns. I have a rather small cabinet full of select guns including some like you own and one in particular that you don't own. I even have a .22 caliber Marlin bolt action rifle that was given to me by my dad for Christmas when I was twelve. I rarely use it, it's the most beat up, the most used and the least in value dollars and cents wise but it's the one that meant the most and has the most sentimental value to me of the group these days. It would take someone really special like a grandson or someone poorer but equal to a grandson to enter my life and pass it on to them as a momento for me to part with it. I also own a Remington 700, .270 caliber rifle with a Nikon scope that has a plain finish black walnut stock that gives it a lot of character.