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’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.
I like shooting as a sport. Not into hunting but hitting targets is fun.
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.
need? no need. want/have? I tinkered and shot target with my (now passed) stepfather and we bonded over the science and nerdy parts of it. do i carry? nope.
Florida
Fair
End of the world prep
I don’t need or want guns the way the world is now.
But if society and civilization collapses, you’ll need a gun because you’ll need to protect yourself and your family from everyone else. I won’t want it to attack other people, I’ll just need it to survive every other murderous idiot that will want to kill me for a can of beans.
But you will have more guns than cans of beans. More likely they will come after you for the guns.
True … but my thinking is that they will go after those people without guns first before turning their attention to me … I might not last long but at least I’ll last a while with a gun as opposed to not having one.
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
I just think they’re neat
For real
I said the same thing, there’s some really super cool engineering among firearms.
My parents and grandparents were into hunting and shooting sports, so I have always been around them and learned how to use them responsibly from an early age, so I used to think it was something everyone did.
I used to shoot 5-7 days a week. Ammo was dirt cheap so I have some guns that used to be really fun, but are now too expensive to use all that much, so I hunt one week a year and go skeet shooting a few times, and occasionally plink at targets with one of the 22s or 38 Specials that I have a pile of reloading stuff for.
It doesn’t excite me as much as it used to either, as gun ownership has become more politicized for everyone, so it’s also hard to find anyone I want to shoot with other than my brother. It used to be a fun hobby where people would just shoot the breeze more than the guns, but now clubs here are filled with MAGAs and plastered with Republican propaganda so I don’t feel as welcome as I used to.
clubs here are filled with MAGAs and plastered with Republican propaganda so I don’t feel as welcome as I used to.
As a kid, my dad and I occasionally went to the local gun show just to look around at interesting stuff. The collectors selling antiques, fancy custom pieces, and guns with historical interest were always fun to chat with. But at some point it turned into crazy town. I don’t go to those events anymore.
I spend a lot more time watching Forgotten Weapons and C&Rsenal than I do shooting these days. Still get the mechanical bits and history stuff and they don’t typically talk political stuff, which is probably good.
Karl of InRange does get political when I am in the mood for that, and he’s a good guest occasionally on Behind the Bastards as well.
It would be nice if local clubs could be more like that, but at least there are a few avenues left.
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.
Mostly, I enjoy target shooting as a hobby. Hunting is big in my area as both deer and feral hogs need to be culled.
I also feel there’s a greater chance of widespread civil unrest than most people understand, and that folks in my area will likely have to defend themselves to some extent if it breaks out. For various reasons, the people who are most important to me aren’t likely to be prepared for that, so I figure I should be ready to some extent.
Don’t have guns yet, but kinda want them. I don’t trust police, I’m non-white, fear of racists.
Reasonable.
I’m not straight and my neighborhood is low income. Like my neighbors and I are tight, but everyone has guns… i trust them (and they me), it’s folks coming in from outside, especially shit like the Proud Boys who turned up a few years ago during protests.
Don’t bring guns to protests.
The protest was about five or six blocks away from my house… Proud Boys and other jackasses were “patrolling” the neighborhoods.
why not? ICE and the police bring them and brandish them and so do the Nazis. who’s gonna keep them in check?
Well, I said protest which I typically view as peaceful. You wanna go on an anarchy driven riot, I mean you do you man.
a peaceful protest is just a flashmob. sounds like you don’t know why people protest
Ok fed.
So you’re the guy planting bricks and burning shit.
quisling mentality
Viewing peaceful protests as a more viable option than violent revolution makes me quisling? Gandhi, MLK and Elizabeth Stanton would disagree.
I own a few shotguns and a couple rifles. I used to go hunting, and guns are pretty cool. Now they just collect dust in my dad’s safe since I don’t have one. If I wanted to shoot again, I’d need to retake the safety course
“Because of the implications”.
