What if you didn't have any guns?

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On Gamo Airgun's website, there's a video of a guy shooting (and killing) a 180 lb. wild hog with a 1600 fps bb gun. WOW! I'd probably buy one of those. Not cheap...$500+.
 
I shoot traditional archery and would be a lot better in that situation. Of course as a previous poster stated there is also ye old blackthorn stick.
 
What you describe (a society without guns) is impossible, or at least has never been accomplished yet since the advent of firearms. Anywhere you go in the world, those who are determined enough will be able to get guns. Sometimes that involves being a criminal... but I can live with that.

Of course if I were born and raised in a country where personal firearms have been banned, there would probably be a strong anti-liberty/pro-government culture and there would not have been much chance of me growing up to accept the views I currently have on liberty and the right to bear arms.

But if your scenario was real and I truly couldn't manage to get my hands on any guns, I guess I would have to occupy my time with trying to overthrow the government or something.
 
Lets see, things i do now- horseback riding, sailing, boating, fishing, hunting, archery, racing possibly???? Thats all i can think of now.
 
Muahahaha... a society w/out guns? Even Fred Flintstone had something figured out to chuck-a-rock a piece. :D

But... o.k. no bangsticks at all... must be by edict enforced by kings men armed to the teeth, so I guess I'd do and/or collect pretty much whatever the king permits in way of rights allowed...

...but if that'd be the case, I'd really, REALLY want one of those Flintstone rock chuckers. ;)
 
I would use my recurve for hunting and get a crossbow for plinking. I would also practice with knives more and get professional training with them. And be annoyed that could not properly defend myself. I also second leaving England.
 
If I had no guns...

Well, that's interesting, isn't it?

If I had no guns, I wouldn't have hundreds of memories with my father and brother, shooting everything from BB pistols to Beretta sidearms to M1 Carbines. I wouldn't remember learning with delight of snake rounds through a .38, or slugs through a Remington 870. I wouldn't have the memories of the discipline my dad taught me, a discipline that cannot be broken without the risk of taking a life. I wouldn't have that discipline guiding other endeavors in my life.

If I had no guns, I wouldn't have Christmases and birthdays opening shotguns, rifles, and pistols, with a delighted shout and happy look upon my face, and my family looking at me with the happiness that comes with giving someone exactly what they're passionate about.

If I had no guns, I would likely not have becoming actively involved in the cause of political lobbying for the right for people to defend themselves. Like so many others, I would walk through the world practically unarmed, perhaps even without a pocket knife. Everything would be fine, except for that one possible day when I'd be out with someone I loved and come under attack, and have to lose my life, or worse yet, lose them.

If I had no guns, I would not know the same security and safety in my home as I do now. As a responsible gun owner, educated about the laws of my state, I am intimately familiar with the Castle doctrine, and know that with my guns, my home is a secure area. My family and friends, people I would love and shelter, can find safety and peace here, and those would would do they or I harm will meet the righteous fire of my legal rights.

If I had no guns, I would not know, for a fact, that when I'm on the arm of the girl I love, I am able to defend her against things as simple as mud puddles by walking along the outside edge of the sidewalk when it's raining, and against the vile predations of the darker elements of human society.

If I had no guns, I'd have lost hundreds or thousands of hours of fascinating reading and conversations with amazingly knowledgeable and talented people on The High Road, The Firing Line, and other forums.

Guns did not make me who I am. My family did that. A childhood of laughter and play tempered with work and values did that. Millions of indescribable experiences, from knowing the smell of a crushed dandelion to the feel of gravel in a shredded knee out riding bikes and horses, to the heart-shattering feeling of true loss, have made me.

Guns, though, are a PART of what makes me, and they are a significant element of my most passionate core. My unyielding center that holds, unquestioned, to the right to live a happy and secure life and to defend that life if need be. It's the same core that recognizes these rights as a core element of what makes America different, a difference constantly under attack by those who would prefer safety to liberty.

If I had no guns, I'd still live my life, but I truly believe I'd be less for it.
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Excellent and worth repeating!!! :)
 
Guess I would learn to golf, a 9 iron would be a decent weapon, haha. I'm sure my girlfriend could help me find something to do with the extra money as well :D.
 
I'd leave.
If I was too poor to leave, or unable, I'd make Molotov cocktails, and hurl them at the inner party members every chance I got.

If you want to see real modern world apartheid, check out the poor Palestinians. Despite the evil Israelis constant brutality, they refuse to submit. They will throw sticks and stones, whatever they can.
 
I don't know what I would do my whole family is gun loving texans and I intend to pass it down maybe archery never really tried it thou. Would I be bummed.... I would be.
 
I guess I could always get into bomb-making. It appears to be one of the most effective ways of deterring tyranny nowadays anyway.
 
With no guns you are the mercy of the gangs, the stronger and the bigger of fang and claw. I don't think I will ever know because I think I would die fighting for mine. An armed man is a citizen an unarmed man a subject.
 
During the Hundred Years' War between the English and French, an arrow from an English longbow (designed by the Welsh) penetrated a French knight's chain mail, part of his thigh, a bit of saddle and cut the horse.

The English were quite well-trained to shoot at a 'high rate of fire' with their weapons which were a total surprise to the French (whose mounted nobility had only contempt for foot soldiers), and keep their bowstrings wrapped up in a dry place when it rained.
They easily outdistanced "bolts" from the mercenary Genoese crossbowmen.

This is in the small condensed version of Churchill's "History of the English-Speaking Peoples".
If I can't have an English-designed Enfield or other rifles, sign me up for the ancient, powerful English (Welsh) long bow.
 
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