todays lunch room talk...

[SSN Vet]

a coworker in the lunch room today expressed his consternation that a "hunter was walking down the side of the road with a loaded rifle slung over his back".

He was inquiring wether this could possibly be legal and expressed how insecure this made him feel, that someone could just walk up to his house with a "loaded rifle" and shoot him.



Others commented they didn't think it was illegal. After the conversation died down, I asked two questions.

1. How do you know that the rifle was loaded?

2. If it was against the law to walk down the street with a rifle slung over your shoulder, do you think that would stop someone who wanted to kill you from walking up to your house with a rifle and shooting you?

SHEEPLE of the worst degree.

 

[PILMAN]

sometimes it's funny and interesting to have conversations with antis. Other times it just gets annoying at the sheer ignorance they spew out of their mouth aye?

 

[XD Fan]

Asinine comments. Theirs not yours.

 

[pharmer]

Even though the anti logic is funny, they will vote for someone who will make it illegal to walk down a road with a rifle slung over the shoulder. Joe

 

[redloki]

This is one of my favorite quotes from Thomas Jefferson and it seems to be the perfect time to share it.

"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks." to Peter Carr, 1785. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson

 

[Henry Bowman]

So what was the response to your two questions?

 

[DoubleTapDrew]

Assuming he was driving by the hunter in a car/suv, possibly with a cell phone attached to his ear, who was in more danger?

 

[Leanwolf]

PHARMER - "Even though the anti logic is funny, they will vote for someone who will make it illegal to walk down a road with a rifle slung over the shoulder. Joe"


You've got that right,100%!

L.W.

 

[ozwyn]

I beg to differ, the anti logic is not to make it illegal for someone to walk down the street with a rifle over his/her shoulder, but that the person doing so is most definitely wearing the uniform of whatever central authority they support, and only them.

 

[carterbeauford]

hunter.

rifle.

walking.

is this gun unfamiliar with modern hunting? which involves walking around with a rifle?

 

[SSN Vet]

his responses.....

1. How do you know that the rifle was loaded?

A: Well if he was just in the woods hunting, then of course his gun was loaded.

No response from me.....he knew he didn't know.

2. If it was against the law to walk down the street with a rifle slung over your shoulder, do you think that would stop someone who wanted to kill you from walking up to your house with a rifle and shooting you?

A: Well if anybody comes to my door carrying a rifle, I'm callin' the cops.

My response.....I got a big surprise for you, the cops aren't going to be there to protect you and stop a crime before it happens. They're going to show up after your dead and MAYBE catch the guy and put him in jail.

I turned to another co-worker who's son is a former cop who now works for in the court system.....he was nodding his head up and down profusely.

 

[CrazyIrishman]

Your co-worker must truly be blessed in that he was able to tell that the rifle was loaded...ESP or X-ray vision perhaps!

I wonder if he was only guessing that it was a rifle!

Next time you see him,ask him if he knew what the caliber was seeing as how he "knew" it was loaded!lol

 

[ezypikns]

Let me see if I have this right.

A hunter with a loaded rifle is walking down the road on a fall day in Maine?

And this is uncommon or disturbing in some way?

 

[Axman]

*GASP* HUNTING, NEAR A WOODS!!! There's gotta be a law!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[DoubleTapDrew]

Don't worry hunters, the antis aren't after YOUR guns

You should freak him out further with something like "Yeah man you are so lucky, if he didn't get a deer he would probably be so insanely mad he'd come to your house and slaughter your whole family!!!"

 

[Rickstir]

Please have him throw away his fire extinguisher, he can simply call the fire department if a fire starts.

 

[lionking]

and this is the difference between the red and the blue...and sometimes people like me who live in a red state but in a metro blue area of that red state.

 

[Gaucho Gringo]

This could have been me many years ago in the Coast Range of Oregon in the early 1970's. I was hunting with 2 friends of mine and our truck broke down. The rotor in the distributor broke. We slung our guns over our shoulders and started walking to the nearest town for parts for the truck. We got rides to town and back to our truck with our guns in plain sight and the people giving us rides had thiers in plain sight too. Nobody thought for a moment that this was anything out of the ordinary during hunting season.

 

[Autolycus]

We had one conversation about CCW at my work. Basically all it was he was saying that blood in the streets would reign. Yet I asked him why it did not happen in all the other shall issue states.

His response: It could of.

I told him that his argument was based on emotions and not on facts. He even agreed with me and said that people are emotional.

Then he went on to say what about the incident with Michael Richards... what if those guys he heckled had a gun? It could have been terrible.

I cannot tolerate stupid people. I informed him that he should not make a new law with the simple idea that taking my rights away because someone else is abusing theirs is wrong.

 

[thexrayboy]

The problem is we have stopped up the filter in the gene pool. 200 years ago
people of this nature and lack of rational capacity would be mightily challenged just to stay alive long enough to pass on this defect. Modern society now allows these 2 legged sheep to live long fat lives and perpetuate this genetic flaw. We are rapidly evolving into two separate species. The original group, homo sapiens. And the offshoot that parasitically exists at the expense of the intelligent that I call homo stupidicus. Superficially they look identical but a brief conversation makes it possible to differentiate the two.

And whats really scary is we allow homo stupidicus to vote.
In addition to requiring proof of ID and residency at the polls we should
consider requiring proof of sentience. That might limit the damage to society.

 

[evan price]

Why was he worried? Was he wearing a deer costume or something? I don't think you can get tags for idiots or else we might have a run on 'em... so he was safe!

Next time ask him if he feels safe on the street with all the road raging homocidal maniacs propelling 2 tonnes of steel in his general direction.

 

[bogie]

Transferance... He _knows_ that if HE was walking down the road, carrying a loaded rifle, that he could shoot someone. Therefore, since he MIGHT do it, he assumes that other people _will_ do it.

Requires vast illogical leaps of "reasoning."

 

[T J]

Years ago, I caught a ride from one town to another from a friend and got dropped off at a house. There was no one there, so I took off walking to another place with my rifle across my shoulder and a pistol in my bag. This was in the city limits, and after a while I heard tires on the gravel at the side of the road where I was walking. I got 'pulled over' by the Police. He asked for my DL, and ran me on the radio to see if I was a BG. Asked what kind of rifle it was and I told him (never asked about the bag). He gave my DL back and went on his way and left me to continue walking down the road (didn't even offer me a ride to the edge of town, hmph). It was perfectly legal, just draws attention sometimes walking around with a rifle. In this same time frame, almost every rancher had a rifle in the rack in the back window of their pickup or on the dash board and no one looked twice at that. You don't see the rifles in the racks of pickups anymore I'm sure due to theft concerns, but back then people didn't have to lock their pickups or even take the keys out and no one messed with anything.

 

[TexasRifleman]

This is one of my favorite quotes from Thomas Jefferson and it seems to be the perfect time to share it.

Dude, I hope you don't mind but I'm going to put that in my signature, that's fantastic!

 

[JohnL2]

Your coworker went to public school right?
public education

Oh, please not evil gun owners!!!
"evil gun owners"