Why Do You Own Guns?
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runrabbitrun
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I like that one.
JohnBT
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"Why Do You Own Guns?"
Why doesn't everybody own at least one gun should be the question. The folks who don't are the odd ones. Sort of like when someone says, "I don't own a hammer." I look at the them funny and think they're odd.
Every bit as strange as the person who says, "I don't know how to change a tire."
John
Why doesn't everybody own at least one gun should be the question. The folks who don't are the odd ones. Sort of like when someone says, "I don't own a hammer." I look at the them funny and think they're odd.
Every bit as strange as the person who says, "I don't know how to change a tire."
John
cowboy68t1
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Because they help me relax. After a stressful week there is nothing like going out to the shooting range and shooting a couple of round of trap, skeet,doubles or sporting clays to help relieve that stress. Or getting the rifles out and testing the reloads I have made. Plus you will have a hard time finding a better group of people than those who own guns legally. Whether for hunting, personal defense, target shooters or history buffs. Most are always willing to help new shooter learn. Or help you with a problem. Sure I have meet a couple that give the sport a black eye, but you have to try and help them learn what is wrong with their actions. Then help them get straightened out.
-for the most important reasons the founding fathers intended (defense of country against foreign invaders and an oppressive government)
-personal defense
-fun
A lot of people don't realize that as a citizen in a country with a government that is supposed to be subservient to its people we have a DUTY to own a gun. The government must fear its people, otherwise it will fall to fascism.
-personal defense
-fun
A lot of people don't realize that as a citizen in a country with a government that is supposed to be subservient to its people we have a DUTY to own a gun. The government must fear its people, otherwise it will fall to fascism.
mljdeckard
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I recently had a commanding officer ask me the same question. I replied: "For all lawful purposes sir."
Because they are a device of significant and historical impact. And because I think Chairman Mao's oft quoted notion of politics is correct.
I keep guns because they keep trying.
There are people both inside and outside of government that will try to swindle, steal or flat out compel you to give up what you have worked for because they are either misguided, a miscreant, or just plain lazy.
I keep guns because they keep trying.
bigione
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To put meat on the table, SD, and more and more, love of guns.
Route2
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Maybe this is why we are so passionate about our guns?
#1: It is good wholesome recreation in keeping with the American tradition. I like the people who are associated with guns. I enjoy associating with them no differently than if we were members of a Classic Car Club. Shooting clays or successfully bagging a deer is secondary to the camaraderie found with fellow shooters. It is an excellent forum for family interaction and to teach values.
#2: A well made gun is a work of art. The intricate inter-workings of each gun are made up of miniature sculptures that comprise a Museum of Industrials Art that you can hold in your hand. The form, the function, the balance and weight, all speak to the inner person. That is what art is, it evokes an emotion that can only be experienced, but not explained.
Is this response too much?
#1: It is good wholesome recreation in keeping with the American tradition. I like the people who are associated with guns. I enjoy associating with them no differently than if we were members of a Classic Car Club. Shooting clays or successfully bagging a deer is secondary to the camaraderie found with fellow shooters. It is an excellent forum for family interaction and to teach values.
#2: A well made gun is a work of art. The intricate inter-workings of each gun are made up of miniature sculptures that comprise a Museum of Industrials Art that you can hold in your hand. The form, the function, the balance and weight, all speak to the inner person. That is what art is, it evokes an emotion that can only be experienced, but not explained.
Is this response too much?
Dark Skies
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Eventually, when the UK's society crumbles under the excesses of our corrupt Marxist / socialist Government, I'll have lots of guns in a land in which most people are unarmed. I shall then declare myself King of England.
I also like to shoot stuff.
I also like to shoot stuff.
1.) It's fun
2.) I think it's a great skill to know how to shoot
3.) I live in the ghetto, hear gun shots on a regular basis, and would like to be able to defend myself if our home is broken into etc. ( I live in the ghetto because I pay dirt cheap rent and live with really good friends).
2.) I think it's a great skill to know how to shoot
3.) I live in the ghetto, hear gun shots on a regular basis, and would like to be able to defend myself if our home is broken into etc. ( I live in the ghetto because I pay dirt cheap rent and live with really good friends).
SquirrelNuts
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1. It is my right to
2. I am a shooter
3. Self defense (see sig line)
4. Historical collection
5. Hobby
6. Reloading - I like being old fashioned and able to make things by hand
2. I am a shooter
3. Self defense (see sig line)
4. Historical collection
5. Hobby
6. Reloading - I like being old fashioned and able to make things by hand
Hostile Amish
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Personal defence, stress reliever, lots of fun.
Zach S
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My earliest childhood memories took place in the city. Nice neighborhood too. Despite it being a nice neighborhood, I still learned not to depend on the police.
That's what got me started anyway.
That's what got me started anyway.
SquirrelNuts
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I have guns to protect me from any hostile Amishmen I might encounter.
Ed Ames
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Balance.
And because I don't own a kirpan (and probably never will...I prefer modern tools).
And because I don't own a kirpan (and probably never will...I prefer modern tools).
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streakr
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it's cheaper than golf!
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shotgunjoel
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"Then He said to them ... and he who has no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one."
-- Luke 22:36 (Jesus sending the disciples out on their own)
"Fear no man what'er his size, for I am here to Equalize"
-- Sam Colt ad slogan
"...an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
--Thomas Jefferson (and that goes for women, too!)
"When seconds count, the police are only minutes away."
--Anonymous
"When a strong man armed keepth his palace, his goods are in peace."
-- Luke 11:21
"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."
-- Robert A. Heinlein, Beyond This Horizon, 1942
"A man that hath a sword by his side shall have least occasion to make use of it."
-- J. Trenchard & W. Moyle
"The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave."
--Andrew Fletcher
"It's quicker to pull your Smith & Wesson than to dial 911."
--Lt. Lowell Duckett, special asst. to DC Police Chief; President of the Black Police Caucus, Washington Post March 22, 1996.
"Whether or not you need a 'man-stopper' isn't your choice, either. Who might you shoot? The guy who is threatening your life. That's the same guy that gets to decide if you've shot him enough. Convince him."
-- Response to a question of caliber suitability (in this case, .22LR), on The High Road forum
"It is better to be judged by 12 than carried by six."
-Lt. Fess Hawkins, Greenville SC PD circa 1963 (not original)
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of firearms."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes."
--Thomas Jefferson
"The said constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
-- Samuel Adams
"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the people's liberty's teeth."
--George Washington
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms."
--James Madison
"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."
--Thomas Paine
"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference; they deserve a place with all that's good. When firearms go, all goes; we need them every hour."
--George Washington
"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed."
-- Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers at 184-8
"The people have a right to keep and bear arms..."
-- Henry and George Mason, Elliot, Debates at 185
"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing deradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
-- Patrick Henry
"A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined..."
-- George Washington
"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives a moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind. ... Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks."
-- Thomas Jefferson letter to Peter Carr, 1785
"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
--Daniel Webster
"The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun."
-- Patrick Henry
"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."
--- Thomas Jefferson
"The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest. "
-- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity. "
- - Sigmund Freud, General Introduction to Psychoanalysis (1952)
"A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie."
-- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
"Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power. "
-- Yoshimi Ishikawa
"I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam."
-- Oliver Stone, 1994
"A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand."
-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c. 4BC - 65AD.
"Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects.... But when you disarm them, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred against you. And because the government cannot remain unarmed, it follows that the government turns to hired police. Therefore a wise prince has always distributed arms to the general population."
-- Nicolo Machiavelli, The Prince, Chapter 20 (L. Ricci translation, pg. 105, 1952)
"The Constitution of the United States of America clearly affirms the right of every American citizen to bear arms."
-- Malcolm X, in Malcolm X at 337, J. Clarke ed. (New York, N.Y., 1969)
"The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible."
-- Machiavelli
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
-- Mark Twain
"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't." -Unknown
"Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal."
-- Janet Reno
"Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed."
-- Sara Brady, Chairman, Handgun Control International
"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans..."
-- Bill Clinton
"A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie."
-- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Stolen from btg3's thread from a while back. http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=350325
-- Luke 22:36 (Jesus sending the disciples out on their own)
"Fear no man what'er his size, for I am here to Equalize"
-- Sam Colt ad slogan
"...an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
--Thomas Jefferson (and that goes for women, too!)
"When seconds count, the police are only minutes away."
--Anonymous
"When a strong man armed keepth his palace, his goods are in peace."
-- Luke 11:21
"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."
-- Robert A. Heinlein, Beyond This Horizon, 1942
"A man that hath a sword by his side shall have least occasion to make use of it."
-- J. Trenchard & W. Moyle
"The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave."
--Andrew Fletcher
"It's quicker to pull your Smith & Wesson than to dial 911."
--Lt. Lowell Duckett, special asst. to DC Police Chief; President of the Black Police Caucus, Washington Post March 22, 1996.
"Whether or not you need a 'man-stopper' isn't your choice, either. Who might you shoot? The guy who is threatening your life. That's the same guy that gets to decide if you've shot him enough. Convince him."
-- Response to a question of caliber suitability (in this case, .22LR), on The High Road forum
"It is better to be judged by 12 than carried by six."
-Lt. Fess Hawkins, Greenville SC PD circa 1963 (not original)
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of firearms."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes."
--Thomas Jefferson
"The said constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
-- Samuel Adams
"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the people's liberty's teeth."
--George Washington
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms."
--James Madison
"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."
--Thomas Paine
"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference; they deserve a place with all that's good. When firearms go, all goes; we need them every hour."
--George Washington
"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed."
-- Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers at 184-8
"The people have a right to keep and bear arms..."
-- Henry and George Mason, Elliot, Debates at 185
"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing deradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
-- Patrick Henry
"A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined..."
-- George Washington
"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives a moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind. ... Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks."
-- Thomas Jefferson letter to Peter Carr, 1785
"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
--Daniel Webster
"The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun."
-- Patrick Henry
"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."
--- Thomas Jefferson
"The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest. "
-- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity. "
- - Sigmund Freud, General Introduction to Psychoanalysis (1952)
"A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie."
-- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
"Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power. "
-- Yoshimi Ishikawa
"I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam."
-- Oliver Stone, 1994
"A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand."
-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c. 4BC - 65AD.
"Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects.... But when you disarm them, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred against you. And because the government cannot remain unarmed, it follows that the government turns to hired police. Therefore a wise prince has always distributed arms to the general population."
-- Nicolo Machiavelli, The Prince, Chapter 20 (L. Ricci translation, pg. 105, 1952)
"The Constitution of the United States of America clearly affirms the right of every American citizen to bear arms."
-- Malcolm X, in Malcolm X at 337, J. Clarke ed. (New York, N.Y., 1969)
"The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible."
-- Machiavelli
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
-- Mark Twain
"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't." -Unknown
"Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal."
-- Janet Reno
"Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed."
-- Sara Brady, Chairman, Handgun Control International
"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans..."
-- Bill Clinton
"A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie."
-- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Stolen from btg3's thread from a while back. http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=350325
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flyboy1788
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I have always have an unexplainable obsession with them since I was a kid. Some things dont change. I couldnt tell you why I like them, I just do.
padd54
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I feel so inadequate after that response of Shotgunjoel.
I hunt and use them for SD as well as use them to teach my Son-in-law and grandkids about 2nd amendment and woodsmanship.
I hunt and use them for SD as well as use them to teach my Son-in-law and grandkids about 2nd amendment and woodsmanship.
LemmyCaution
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For the same reason I own a hammer (and a tire iron, ht- JohnBT). They're just another bunch of tools in the shop.
Cmdr. Gravez0r
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The main reason is in case I need to kill somebody or something.
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