atek3
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I was at a party and the theme was 'dead warriors', so I borrowed a friends period leather holster, cowboy had, and replica SAA. Considering that this is berkeley, and people know me as the 'gun nut', I got a lot of "is that a real gun".
"No, its a replica."
"Can I handle it?"
"Sure, just respect it like a real gun, don't point it at people."
"Okay, but why?"
"What if I was lying, and it was a real, loaded gun and you shot someone."
"Ohhhh, good point." Usually went the conversation. I got very few, ewww, icky guns.
Later I was chatting with a female friend who offhandedly mentioned she was "a pretty good shot, better than my mother who was in the armed services, but I haven't shot in years, because I'm afraid of guns."
"Why are you afraid of them?" I replied.
"I think I've psychoanalyzed myself and figured it out. I used to go shooting with my mother and her friend, who she was cheating on my father with. Then after my parents got a divorce my mother abused my brother and I."
"Whoa, I think I should take you to the range."
"I just might do that, because I trust you."
So, I'm going to take her and her boyfriend shooting. Right on.
(it really warms my heart to be perceived as a "good gun nut".)
Conversation two, I had a good chat with a well meaning, smart anti (as opposed to a dumb evil one like tom diaz). He conceeds that gun laws are ineffective and I explained why the '94 AWB is a joke. He laughed out loud about the "when was the last time you heard of a drive by bayonetting?" His main beef was the perception that the NRA is out of touch with the day to day going ons of compton, east oakland, and other places like that. Teaching gun safety to Mr. and Mrs. responsible gun owner (a catagory he lumps me under) is all well and good, but the people in the ghettos commiting crimes don't take gun safety classes. They use their pistols for nefarious ends. So he asked me what steps I would take to lower the murder rate in such places. We both agreed legalizing drugs would be a good first step, as the violent drug trade/gang violence is one of the main 'causes' of the high murder rate. Other than that we were both pretty baffled. Laws won't do jack, as there are enough handguns on the black market to continue to have gang warfare for a hundred years after they were completely banned. You can't really "legislate" away evil people. I guess you have to go do the dreaded "societal" causes of violence, aka why people turn to crime.
What do you guys and gals think? How would you lower the murder rate in places like compton if you were emperor?
atek3
"No, its a replica."
"Can I handle it?"
"Sure, just respect it like a real gun, don't point it at people."
"Okay, but why?"
"What if I was lying, and it was a real, loaded gun and you shot someone."
"Ohhhh, good point." Usually went the conversation. I got very few, ewww, icky guns.
Later I was chatting with a female friend who offhandedly mentioned she was "a pretty good shot, better than my mother who was in the armed services, but I haven't shot in years, because I'm afraid of guns."
"Why are you afraid of them?" I replied.
"I think I've psychoanalyzed myself and figured it out. I used to go shooting with my mother and her friend, who she was cheating on my father with. Then after my parents got a divorce my mother abused my brother and I."
"Whoa, I think I should take you to the range."
"I just might do that, because I trust you."
So, I'm going to take her and her boyfriend shooting. Right on.
(it really warms my heart to be perceived as a "good gun nut".)
Conversation two, I had a good chat with a well meaning, smart anti (as opposed to a dumb evil one like tom diaz). He conceeds that gun laws are ineffective and I explained why the '94 AWB is a joke. He laughed out loud about the "when was the last time you heard of a drive by bayonetting?" His main beef was the perception that the NRA is out of touch with the day to day going ons of compton, east oakland, and other places like that. Teaching gun safety to Mr. and Mrs. responsible gun owner (a catagory he lumps me under) is all well and good, but the people in the ghettos commiting crimes don't take gun safety classes. They use their pistols for nefarious ends. So he asked me what steps I would take to lower the murder rate in such places. We both agreed legalizing drugs would be a good first step, as the violent drug trade/gang violence is one of the main 'causes' of the high murder rate. Other than that we were both pretty baffled. Laws won't do jack, as there are enough handguns on the black market to continue to have gang warfare for a hundred years after they were completely banned. You can't really "legislate" away evil people. I guess you have to go do the dreaded "societal" causes of violence, aka why people turn to crime.
What do you guys and gals think? How would you lower the murder rate in places like compton if you were emperor?
atek3