Worst myths you've heard about guns which are meant to scare the general public?

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Pulling the hammer back on a Glock is intimidating. Especially if you pull it back twice without decocking it. (Yes, I was watching TV). I wonder, if guns IRL were how they are portrayed in TV, how many times would we be legally obligated to menacingly cock our Glocks before we can fire on an assailant?
 
guns arent safe to have in a house with kids.
i have two kids. 5 and 3. we have guns all over the house, up on walls in lockers in cabinets all over. my kids see them every day the know what they are and where to find them. we have never had a problem with guns in the house. both my wife and i carry. we dont leave a loaded gun on the floor cocked and ready to rock, we dont leave loaded guns on the walls. stupid people are not safe to leave in a house with kids. we keep ammo locked up and we teach the kids that guns arent toys arent scary and that if they want to shoot all they need to do is ask. as far as i can see the kids are perty safe.
 
You all obviously missed my point. I was watching Lost, and the one guy had a Glock trained on one of the other survivors and was sternly asking questions. When he wasn't getting answers he liked, there was the click of the Glock being cocked (as if it were a DA/SA that was already chambered). A few minutes later, he got angry again, and there was another click of the Glock being cocked. Technically fallacious, hence my sarcastic statement.

I believe someone a while back posted a video on youtube which makes even more fun of this.

ETA: If an evilgenius is the only person who understands me, I'm in trouble.
 
RCWFL said:
Myth: You can not own "military grade weapons" or "assault weapons."

The sad thing is I heard this years after the AWB was repealed.
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My father in law is a retired small town chief of police. A couple years ago I took my AR out to his place to do some shooting (they own some land). As I was getting set up he picked up one of my P-Mags, examined it closely, then asked me (in a conspiratorial tone), "Where did you get that?"

I had to explain to him that the AWB had expired several years previously, and that standard capacity magazines are perfectly legal to own. I'm not quite sure he believed me, but he didn't say anything else about it

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Skribs said:
You all obviously missed my point. I was watching Lost, and the one guy had a Glock trained on one of the other survivors and was sternly asking questions. When he wasn't getting answers he liked, there was the click of the Glock being cocked (as if it were a DA/SA that was already chambered). A few minutes later, he got angry again, and there was another click of the Glock being cocked. Technically fallacious, hence my sarcastic statement.

I believe someone a while back posted a video on youtube which makes even more fun of this.

ETA: If an evilgenius is the only person who understands me, I'm in trouble.
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First episode of Walking Dead:

Rick: Make sure you've got a round in the chamber and your safety off.

Other officer: *Racks slide on a visibly empty chamber and flicks slide stop to deactivate safety on Glock*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyRk24aIXdw
 
j1 said:
Guns do kill people that is why they are good for home defense. Hammers drive nails too. Each tool for the job at hand.
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You must be new. :p

As your third statement implies, guns and hammers are tools. Both can be used to kill people or drive nails, but without a user they are merely objects... capable of doing nothing.

What you have said is equivalent to, a spoon can feed me soup, or my keyboard typed this reply.
 
The myth were if you are have a gun you are more likely to mistake basic objects as weapons.
Then you will "instinctively" shoot any person you mistake as haveing a weapon.
I read something like this somewhere but I don't remember where. I'm sure you could look it up.
 
Said to me by a salesman at a gunshow in Tampa Fl from shootstraight gunshop around late 2008 or early 2009 don't remember exactly that had photos of Obama sitting on top of there AR-15's on the tables..........

quote: "get your AR-15 now because Obama is going ban them and they will keep getting more expensive from now on so get yours now before its too late"

Sale price for the Bushmaster he was pitching, around $1500.

I didn't fall for it, many did though.

Fear mongering from "our side" that perpetuates myths that hurt our shooting sport is just as devious as the anti-gun people.

And now, lol.......the election is months away, no hint of any legislation even making it to law no matter who wins the election and the fear mongers are already trying to stir a buying panic.

This country has turned into a bunch of greedy speculators whether it is gas, wall street, real estate or 2nd amendment "supporters".
 
"If we get rid of all the guns then there will be world peace"

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If we get rid of all guns knife and sword sales will go through the roof.
 
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