Why do I have to learn about guns?

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Thu Mar 22, 2018, 10:57 AM https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100210395047
RockaFowler (7,066 posts)


Why do I have to learn about guns?

A family friend said that I should learn about guns more so I could understand her feelings about them. Say what?? Why the f--- do I need to know about someone's feelings for an inanimate object?? Why are people so obsessed with this stupid weapon??

How come people can't see why I hate guns so much?? I had a cousin who killed herself with a gun. I have friends in Orlando who were just having fun at a nightclub get shot at and murdered by a gun. But now I have to worry about your feelings about your gun. I just don't get it. If you actually think God gave you the right to handle a semi-automatic weapon you are delusional.

The other thing she mentioned was that we don't have love in our hearts anymore that's why there are so many gun killings. We have so many gun killings because there are too many guns that are easily accessible to too many people. You don't see this in other countries. They see the same movies. Play the same video games.

Just aggravated and I can't take it much more.

First: You don't have to learn about guns.

Second: You are mad because someone wants you to understand how they feel about something and you are mad about it... at the same time you want someone to understand how you feel about something... and you are mad about it...

Third: 

Response to RockaFowler (Original post)Thu Mar 22, 2018, 11:41 AM
Star Member TeapotInATempest (601 posts)

5. Her "feelings" about them, ugh.

Maybe the gun lovers should learn something about things many of us care about. How about dead kids? How about the lasting effects of gun violence and the pervasive threat of gun violence on children? I have "feelings" about those things. Does that not count?

These people need to go back to pre-school and start learning that their "feelings" do not take precedence over everyone else's.

But you want everyone to know how you FEEEEEEL about everything... and it seems like your feelings trump everyone else... 

Thu Mar 22, 2018, 11:47 AM
hack89 (37,249 posts)

7. To avoid a possible repeat of the 1994 AWB perhaps?

ignorance produces really bad laws that sometimes do exactly the opposite of what you desire.

Just a thought.

good point. That means it won't go over well at the DUmp...

Response to hack89 (Reply #7)Thu Mar 22, 2018, 05:09 PM
Star Member Canoe52 (1,158 posts)

44. Cut the BS. Were tired of it and not buying it either.

Thu Mar 22, 2018, 11:56 AM
Lee-Lee (5,335 posts)

9. I will say this- I teach people about guns

And learning about them will change your perspective to a more informed one.

It may not change your beliefs at all, but your beliefs will be more grounded in knowledge. And being more informed is always good.

That said, having trained several thousand people over the years from all walks of life and all backgrounds and all beliefs about guns going in, a very strong trend I note is that once a person with little to no background in firearms is introduced to them in a safe, fun environment their personal views tend to become decidedly less anti gun. Seems replacing what was learned from media and Hollywood about guns with knowledge based on actual hands on experience and accurate knowledge does that.

You have nothing to lose by learning and being more informed.

RockaFowler (7,066 posts)

12. But see I have learned about guns

The thing is she wants me to learn why she loves her guns so much

I just don't care. Again it's this emotional thing people have for guns. I don't get it. It's an object that kills people. It's only use is to kill or maim.

My Grandfather taught me all about guns. My mother taught me as well. They just aren't for me and I see no use for them in a civil society. I live in a city and I feel safer than she does and she lives in the country. I can leave my house knowing it's a safe place. She can't even leave her house for fear that someone will break-in. I refuse to live in fear like her.

Someone in the country is not as safe as someone in the city? Bull-Shit.

Response to Lee-Lee (Reply #9)Thu Mar 22, 2018, 12:16 PM
Star Member mac56 (16,076 posts)

14. "I teach people about gargling Drano...

And learning about it will change your perspective to a more informed one."

 

Thu Mar 22, 2018, 01:16 PM
Star Member Canoe52 (1,158 posts)

32. Perfect response to the comrade gun humpers man splaining guns here.

Thank you!

 

Thu Mar 22, 2018, 01:25 PM
Star Member Aristus (41,653 posts)

38. I can't say I agree with you 100%.

I served in the US Army, learning basic rifle marksmanship on the M16A1, and later using the M16A2 at my permanent duty station. As a tank crewman, I trained to use both the old Colt .45 1911A1 pistol, and the newer Beretta 9mm.

I qualified as an expert on all three weapons, and could still, nearly thirty years after I ETS'd, disassemble each of these weapons as I was trained to do.

None of that makes me any more pro-gun, or more understanding of the creepy, pornographic fetish gun-enthusiasts have for firearms. I know everything I need to know about guns and the people who love them. They are both a danger to our society, and the more love, affection, and importance they place on guns, the less they should be allowed to own them.

"You won't really know unless you've tried it."

I've never tried methamphetamine, but as a medical provider in primary care, I've seen the way it destroys lives. So to look at the astounding human wreckage caused by easy access to guns, and say: "You've just never really given them a chance" seems incredibly tone-deaf.

 

Response to RockaFowler (Original post)Thu Mar 22, 2018, 12:14 PM
Star Member smirkymonkey (29,999 posts)

13. I am totally on the same page with you!

I don't want to learn about guns. I don't care what gun-lovers think. I hate them and I think they are stupid. I will never understand this fetish that people have for them. It makes me crazy even thinking about it.

Response to RockaFowler (Original post)Thu Mar 22, 2018, 12:38 PM
HopeAgain (2,428 posts)

16. I'll teach you everything you need to know

You pull a trigger and a deadly projectile comes out. Some guns are designed to shoot more deadly, more rapidly than others. There are guns that have been used for decades as sporting weapons and there are guns that are designed to kill human beings.

You can vote for legislators who are willing to take an honest look at weapons and make reasonable decisions for us as to what guns should be banned and which should not. None of them have an R behind their name and none of them take NRA money.

Thu Mar 22, 2018, 12:48 PM
Star Member NastyRiffraff (10,110 posts)

19. I have never seen the need to learn more about guns

than I already know. In the wrong hands, they are dangerous, killing weapons. And there are many wrong hands. There is nothing about a gun to "love," any more than there is nothing about a bomb to love. (And before some idiot chimes in, yes, I do know the difference between guns & bombs. So keep it.)

Thu Mar 22, 2018, 12:59 PM
Dawson Leery (16,822 posts)

26. The typical conservative argument.

They want us to come into their dark world.

I was raised in a conservative small town.

I have had more than enough conservatism for several lifetimes.

Thu Mar 22, 2018, 09:04 PM
Star Member Skittles (119,194 posts)

49. I DO NOT CARE ABOUT THE FEELINGS OF GUN HUMPERS

they are ****ING COWARDS

 

[DUmpsterDiver]

>Why are people so obsessed with this stupid weapon?

Well genius, perhaps if some bad hombres decided to come in to your abode and rape you, you daughter(s) son(s) and lover(S) IT MAY BECOME CLEAR.

But you, being a DUmmy, I doubt you can understand survival or defense.

[Happy Fun Ball]

Alright DUmmies, I'll answer your question once you answer this:

Why do I have to learn about gays?
Why do I have to learn about transgenders?
Why do I have to learn about same sex marriage?
Why do I have to learn about socialism?
Why do I have to learn about Islam?
Why do I have to learn about social justice?
Why do I have to learn about abortion?
Why do I have to learn about man-made global warming?

[SVPete]

Thu Mar 22, 2018, 10:57 AM https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100210395047
RockaFowler (7,066 posts)

Why do I have to learn about guns?

To sound like an ignorant moron a little less often.

[BlueStateSaint]

>Why are people so obsessed with this stupid weapon?

Well genius, perhaps if some bad hombres decided to come in to your abode and rape you, you daughter(s) son(s) and lover(S) IT MAY BECOME CLEAR.

But you, being a DUmmy, I doubt you can understand survival or defense.

He might enjoy the rape part.

[Old n Grumpy]

Just aggravated and I can't take it much more.

Suicide is always an option. it is cheap and permanent.

[VelvetElvis]

Suicide is always an option. it is cheap and permanent.

Just don't use a GUN to do it.
You might get hurt, or even DIE!!!!

[USA4ME]

TeapotInATempest

Maybe the gun lovers should learn something about things many of us care about. How about dead kids? How about the lasting effects of gun violence and the pervasive threat of gun violence on children?

The big lie.

Liberals take interests in issues, not because they care about people, but because they want a gov't that will control the population according to their dictate. The lives of people are something they can point to as a means to an end; that end being control and to make illegal anyone who disagrees with them.

The prism libs see through is the slavery of the population to their authority and the imprisonment/death of any who oppose them. The primitives and others sites like Kos and Salon have made that point very clear in the last two decades.

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[Skul]

Why do I have to learn about guns?

So you know which end to hold in your mouth, silly you.   

[Wineslob]

How come people can't see why I hate guns so much?? I had a cousin who killed herself with a gun. I have friends in Orlando who were just having fun at a nightclub get shot at and murdered by a gun. But now I have to worry about your feelings about your gun. I just don't get it. If you actually think God gave you the right to handle a semi-automatic weapon you are delusional.

DUmbass, it wasn't a gun, it was the human using it, but you know that.  So..... 

[DumbAss Tanker]

Thu Mar 22, 2018, 10:57 AM https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100210395047
RockaFowler (7,066 posts)


Why do I have to learn about guns?

I'm not really asking you to learn that much, just stare into the muzzle and watch one of the bullets come out.  It's not that tough, really.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

I'm not really asking you to learn that much, just stare into the muzzle and watch one of the bullets come out.  It's not that tough, really.

And they only have to do it once.

[SVPete]

I'm not really asking you to learn that much, just stare into the muzzle and watch one of the bullets come out.  It's not that tough, really.

Maybe muzzlingus? See how the bullet tastes?

[thundley4]

I had a cousin who killed herself with a gun.

She probably allowed people to see plenty of signs that she was troubled, but you likely ignored them. If not a gun, then she could have used pills or another way.

I have friends in Orlando who were just having fun at a nightclub get shot at and murdered by a gun.

No. The gun did not murder them. A ****ing gay-hating  Muslim pig murdered them.

[diesel driver]

Suicide is always an option. it is cheap and permanent.

Hesheit may have to use a gun...  Just saying...

[freedumb2003b]

Learning bad.

Me know firestick make loud bang.  Make things and people fall down.

Firestick scary so firestick bad.

Me get all my opinions from progressive talking points and echo chamber.

Thinking bad.

Knowledge bad.

Learning bad.

Firesticks bad.

[freedumb2003b]

[67 Rover]

Learning bad.

Me know firestick make loud bang.  Make things and people fall down.

Firestick scary so firestick bad.

Me get all my opinions from progressive talking points and echo chamber.

Thinking bad.

Knowledge bad.

Learning bad.

Firesticks bad.

Ban high capacity Firestick clips.