If you don’t, no need to reply telling me you don’t. I live in the woods with some critters. I live pretty far from neighbors/police so having a gun gives me peace of mind. I also hunt and consider myself a gun hobbiest. I enjoy shooting targets, cleaning/organizing, reloading and earning food with guns.
I have a deep and abiding fear of paper targets.
Sorry, I find humor helps me deal with bad situations. And as a progressive in the US, that is where I currently find myself. Large numbers of people profess that they would be happy to murder me, my family, and my friends, because we aren’t misogynist, racist, homophobic, and transphobic sociopaths. I put a high value on human life, and I would not kill someone over property, but I am willing to kill to prevent others from being killed.
I believe in using as little force as necessary. I believe in de-escalation. I believe that deadly force should always be a last resort. But having a firearm leaves that option on the table, in case nothing else works.
I hope that we can eventually all get back to treating each other like human beings. Right now I don’t think I can count on that from everyone.
I think they are interesting from a mechanical perspective.
Mostly for protection and also for emergencies. I don’t hunt anymore because I can not make good use of the animal and also I don’t even particularly like game meat, but it’s nice to have that option if stuff goes to hell in the future. The defensive aspect I have used several times.
To me it always seemed crazy to trust other people with your protection. Not only are governments almost always run be psychopathic pedophiles who will murder millions for any number of reasons while surveiling the rest of the population, but humanity in general is not at all trustworthy. Most people are pretty evil. They will hurt innocent people. That’s how humans on average are.
It’s half and half. There are occasionally kidnappings and armed robberies where I live so I’m grateful to have the right to defend myself, it’s good to be prepared for any unforseen disaster that might befall us, and I think firearm ownership is an important political right (it seems very suspicious that some of the people who are most eager to impose their political ideas on the rest of us are also very eager to ban one of the tools we might use to stop them). But honestly I just like guns, shooting is fun and I do it competitively, they’re interesting machines to study and tinker with and they have a lot of interesting military history attached to them.
Yeah user Treczoks in here is particularly suspicious on that front.
For me firearm ownership is about responsibility and independence. If you’re going to eat meat, you should participate in the process and understand what it means. If you don’t trust the state with a monopoly on violence, you should be a part of distributing that power as widely as possible. Guns are one of the most powerful tools in the modern world, and I value them for the same reasons I value my drill or computer: they expand my capabilities.
Need
With the political environment in the US I am increasingly feeling unsafe and feel like a gun is almost a must have now
Want.
Lifelong anti-gun libtard here.
I think guns are primarily for people who fear. I think fear is the primary motivator for firearm ownership. I would like to live in a society where fear doesn’t push people to own firearms. That is not our reality. That is not the society we live in.
There are masked, unqualified paramilitary federal goons entering our communities and harassing and assaulting AMERICAN CITIZENS. I passed my history classes. I enjoy reading up on history in my own personal time. I know where things like this often lead, and I’ve come to accept that it’s time to arm myself. A significant portion of our populace also supports what is happening and would be perfectly fine with people like myself, who want everyone to have healthcare, a good education, and to be fed, being “removed” from this plane of existence. These people are everywhere. I understand that they are not actively going out and killing people like me, but they are voting to persecute and harm people like me and the people I care about.
That’s enough for me to arm myself out of fear.
I don’t believe this to be a good society. I don’t believe this to be an intelligent society. I don’t believe this to be a safe society going forward.
I haven’t purchased a firearm yet, but I’ve been out shooting with friends a number of times and I’ve been asking questions to get ready for the process of acquiring at least one.
If the fasciats are going to try to kill me I will take at least one with me.
I’ve been called the f word a few times since the election so I’m not going to become some homophobe’s victim
This. I’m not into violence, but the Republicans are getting scary and they have a lot of weapons. It’d be easier to reconcile my issues with violence if I had to shoot someone than it’d be to reconcile the issues I’d have if I wasn’t able to fight them trying to hurt me or my family.
Plus target shooting is fun.
I’m a punk so I’ve never been totally adverse to violence but usually a knife was good but now I really feel uncomfortable with the vibe I was getting and I felt it was time to get strapped. Fuckers always want a victim but shit their pants when they realize they found a fight. Someone kept eyeing me a little while back and I just stared back at them while clicking my gun belt and they went white in the face and got back in their truck real fast cos they’re all chicken-shit bullies.
I can’t get enough target practice though, I even set up a little shooting gallery in my basement for bb and airsoft guns just to keep sharp when my ears are dying after the 50th trip in a row to the range where someone next to me had an AR going off the entire time. Nazis and klan bitches make for fun targets though in the basement gallery. I ended up with a .22 rifle as well to bring to the range and that is just so much fun to shoot with. That thing is nearly silent with some CCI quiets, you just hear the bolt hit the rim and the bullet impact
“I can’t believe those DEI types will resort to political violence.”
*I wonder how many racists even know what DEI stands for
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I can’t upvote you enough!
Makes sense to me.
Want, we have coyotes and I have a small dog. They usually stay away when I’m around but the last time they barely turned tail once I aggressively went to engage them after picking my dog up. He’s always on a leash but I feel more comfortable carrying a .22 with me when we go out after dark during the winter after that last encounter.
Police don’t show up quickly enough to deal with a serious threat, so I have a firearm for home defense. Just one. Not into collecting, whether firearms or anything else.
My dad is into guns, so he gave me one. And I sold it. And then he gave me another, and I guess I’ll hang onto this one for a bit.
Guns make the police in my area more polite. That was thing I witnessed following the Ukraine revolution as well. Marshal law is more costly on an armed unwilling population.
I also hunt as part of our wild life management where I live.
Its also something that as a maker I love to tinker and build stuff for. Just one of those because you can kind of things
Im American. All the people who think the laws were never meant to apply to them already have more guns than I have friends. And when they die, their likely rotten kids will get them. I can either accept that I live in a country where only terrible people have guns(this includes the cops). Or I could do something about it and take my sefety into my own hands. Really simple choice at the end of the day.
Yeah thats a reasonable rationale.
I like shooting as a sport. Not into hunting but hitting targets is fun.
