Obsessed with Guns?

Agouti,
Part of the reason it looks like an obsession is that it is an interest that covers such a broad range.
Just the guns themselves, there are shotguns, rifles, and revolvers. Each of these spin off into a myriad of calibers, actions, and manufacturers. Then there is the psychomotor skills involved with shooting the guns and hitting what you're aiming at, which can be learned quickly but it takes a lifetime to perfect. Finally, there is a whole regimine of maintenance and repair.
It's not that we're obsessed...it just that there is alot to think about.

I find I don't need to count sheep at night to get my mind off the troubles of my day...I just think about the options for my next gun purchase...or maybe I'll put a new sight on my Makarov...or get a red dot for my 22 pistol...but I could alsoput that money into more ammo and targets for my...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...sorry I dozed off there...but you get my point.

No

I like shooting, hunting, discussing guns, etc, but it is my hobby. I am far less “obsessed” with guns then my friends are “obsessed” with their race cars, dirt bikes, poker tournaments, fishing, football, softball, wine, cigars, or the biggest waste of time and resources, GOLF. If you want to really see “obsessed” take a look at golfers.

But the thing is that the only thing on that list of hobbies that is a right is owning firearms. You don’t have a right to race cars, play poker or play golf. The Constitution guarantees my right to own a firearm. I view it as reasonable to fight those who seek to strip that right form us just as I would anyone who wants to censure a writer at a news paper.

Would you call someone who was passionate about making sure that the police were not committing illegal search and seizures obsessed?

Agouti said:

I'm just curious about the people on these boards.

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Which people, on what boards?

I'm curious why people show up and post stuff like that

A duty and a delight

There are a lot of subjects that I think about daily - my wife, kids, family, church, work, traffic, current events ... all these things cross my mind many times daily. Would somebody say I have psychosis because I think of any of these things more than once a day?

I think about my hobbies more than once a day, also. This does not make me obsessed in any sense, clinical or practical. I take pride in the fact that one of my hobbies is not just a pass-time, but one of the bulwarks of freedom.

BTW - I laid down my job in a small town in the deep south over the subject of Racism back in April of 2000. Racists were paying my paycheck and they were disturbed with my familiar relations with hispanics and blacks. They issued me an ultimatum to which I did not bow for a moment. Two months later I was bankrupt, and a few months later I was evicted from my home with my wife and two children - I lost everything I had because I believe all people are created equal and God plays no favorites. I think about this several times a day also even though that was seven years ago.

The 'Old Media' continues to portray gun owners as de-facto racists - but I want to know: When have these 'old media' reporters laid down their livlihood over this issue? I'm a gun owner and I've laid down everything I have (and lost it) on the subject of race. What have these accusing 'reporters' laid down on the subject other than trite words?

Agouti, don't fall for the premise that those parts of you disliked by others are pathologies. I think a blocked magazine would be fine with the DNR (check with them), just so one would have to take the magazine apart to unblock it. Shotgun tubular magazines are blocked with wooden dowels, quite kosher.

No I am not obsessed with guns. I love fine things. That pretty much sums it up for me. For me it is quality not quantity.
A firearm can be a fine thing.
I like classic motorcycles too. I'm not sure what that says about me.

The most annoying thing are ignorant fools who think just because you are into firearms you are going to snap and go on a shooting spree.

Obsessed. No. But, it's better than stressing about inconsequential things. I have one of those God's Creatures Tees. Lord help those creatures that qualify for freezer food when I go hunting with the munchies.

Obsessed? Definitely! Much the same way as LEO's are obsessed with protecting the public, doctors are obsessed with saving lives and fire fighters are obsessed with extinguishing fires. To each their own ...

Cannonball888 . . .

Nice picture!

I may be obsessed with the intricacies of the structural design of cheap apartment building....will the flooring support the weight load of all the ammo I have in the bedroom closet?

She's turning me into a misogynist.

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No offense intended, but it sounds like the gun issue is just a symptom of other family relationship problems. To be honest, from the tone of your posts, it doesn't sound like all the problems lie at your parents feet.

Much like Camelot, this thread isn't worth visiting because it's a silly place.