Nitsua wrote: »

Stabbity Style wrote: »

Redcoat-13 wrote: »

Sorry if this offends, but speaking as a non-US person, I just find it woefully pathetic that before you even get into the pedantic details about what kind of guns you can ban, the US makes it (next to purposefully) impossible to search for who own guns.

Surely most people back at least a proper gun ownership data base? Is it really a minority just stopping such an obvious thing being created?

I don’t know how some of you get up in the morning knowing this kind of obstructionist bollox goes on all the time.

Gun owners hate the idea of a gun database almost as much as a gun ban. To them it's the first step towards mass confiscation. But considering they're going to be 100% against literally any gun control measure, nothing will get done until we get a majority in congress and senate and a Democrat in the White House and then hope the conservative stacked Supreme Court doesn't strike it down because if the founders wanted a computer database, they would have written it into the constitution or some other bullshit made up justification.

Honestly, this country just pisses me the fuck off sometimes.

Gun owner here, database wanted, nay needed. Try not to throw out generalizations. If you want to say gun nuts, I'll agree with you. But all gun owners are not the same. The ones who want those AR-15s and the 'zombie' ammo/marketing are so far away from the type of gun owner I am that we may as well not even be classified as the same type of people. Generalizations will get us nowhere.

And before anyone throws me under the suicide bus - I'm a highly depressed person who has wanted to take my own life and very nearly did. It terrifies me to this day how close I came. So more than any of you I actually understand the loss that occurs from having some items available and within reach of people in such circumstances. Trust me, even rifles would do if you're wanting it enough. Using that against those who aren't as fervent as you is not acting in good faith and thinking that all in that category would be likely to use arms against others is also wrong. I'd cause harm to myself before laying a hand on anyone and even the thought of turning one of my rifles on an actual living being (animal or human) sickens me - literally. The violence we've been seeing recently literally makes me so ill I have to call out of work. I want things to change. If I had a way to bring about these changes I would do it myself... I have no clue what to do outside of make my voice heard in places like this. America could use with a rearranging of how it views guns and the way they are fetishized in our culture. So much needs to change.

Einzel wrote: »

This magazine/insert needs to be published and distributed like the Gideon bible.

matt has a problem wrote: »

There was a skunk in the driveway last night when I went out to get in my car. Nickie asked if I had an airhorn I could use to scare it away. Deaf, smelling of skunk and arrested for blasting an airhorn in my yard at 11pm wasn't how I wanted to end the night, though.