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camslam...my strongest concerns have to do with my job, and with children. I would guess that most instances of a child accidentally shooting someone (intentionally is a separate, though related issue), stem from poor firearms education, lack of proper storage, proper handling procedures...in...

Um...how about distrusting? Overly cautious? A worry-wart? The author may in fact be an elitist, but I don't think it takes an elitist mindset to come to a personal conclusion (erroneous or not), that those who have explicit training and professional experience carrying firearms are...

Dravur...I'm not saying right wing commentators should keep their mouths shut, and I certainly don't care if they offend leftists. I'm saying there's a difference between the rhetoric of the opinion piece I quoted ("can we possibly admit that there might be a connection?"), and that of many...

I didn't say the blog was pro-gun, I said it was in defense of the gun owner mentality. A "think about it from their point of view" thing. I said many of the comments were pro-gun...and they were. And I read the author's comments about people walking around armed differently from you. It...

I'm not an anti, but I am a card carrying liberal (as FiremanBob puts it), and I'll tell you what scares me...it's not "People Having Guns", it's "Stupid People Having Guns". For probably every five knowledgeable, responsible gun owners I know personally, I know one who I really wish would...

Here's an interesting article discussing our frightening tradition of April shooting sprees: http://www.slate.com/id/2216248/pagenum/2 Keep in mind, the article comes from Slate, an online periodical (now owned by the Washington Post) that presents a cautious (though by no means extreme)...

Holy crap! A liberal writes a levelheaded, even tempered defense of gun owners' positions to other liberals, and we still rip it to shreds! Sure, it didn't start that way, and I thank TnG27 for presenting the article to us respectfully. But man did it devolve from there..."elitist"...

As to the actual question of the thread (sorry for the tangent)...I have a coworker who I also spar with regularly, on this and other issues. But it's a mutually entered debate, and there are no hard feelings. In fact, we enjoy the discourse. If this guy is foisting views upon you that you...

I've always had a bit of a problem with the analogies people (not just jack404 and bigione, I see the same comments a lot) keep making to car ownership and drunk driving, and how they kill more people and they're not restricted, etc. etc.... First of all, car ownership and driving rights...

Blackbeard...As you say, National Defense and Revolution are great arguments for guns that kill a lot of people. The arguments against are that National Defense is primarily handled by the professional military (these days), and that overthrowing the government is such an enormous deal that...

True. And it's already easy to see that Privacy on all fronts is going to be the big civil battleground of the next fifty years.

Seriously though...who doesn't want a tank? Gassing it up would suck a bit.

Funny you mention that, there was a time that question was considered valid. It went like this... "Do you really need to consume alcohol that isn't for religious or medicinal purposes?" Of course, we all know how well that worked. And the antis' objections (at least as I've heard them)...

Right you are, and I'm ignoring Canada's specifc gun policies and focusing on how their historically pro-gun culture and ratio of guns owned to gun deaths recorded points to a problem other than guns themselves.

I think we should make a distinction between "legal" uses, as everallm defines, and "legitimate" uses, as Blackbeard started the thread discussing. #5 (Revolution) is probably patently illegal, but the point at which you're overthrowing the government is the point at which that government's...

Hey! You can't say my name like that without using a faux Sean Connery voice: http://www.vidstogo.com/player.php?vfname=snl6a&ext=wmv :evil: As far as what's happened in England, I think there are some intrinsic sociological differences to keep in mind. England, and nearly all western...

Awesome...thanks much!

Let me know if you come across that website again, sounds useful. I've got a Norinco 1911, and another forum member told me recently that they're particularly hard to remove the front sight from. That's really all I know about it, but I'll look inside my slide when I get home. Are you...

Fixing the "system" by taking away everyone's guns sounds more like a Fascist sentiment, actually. A truly socialist solution would be "Guns for everybody! But everyone must have the same type and number of guns, and they must be paid for with tax dollars." :D

Hey, $175 actually ain't half bad. I might still try the DIY method, but if I mess up I could just send it to Wilson. Thanks for that tip. Good point about even bothering with the rear sights for close range. If I can make the front work, I just might leave it at that.