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Hooray. And this is why my dad brought me shooting at a young age and taught me how to respect the guns. Didn't care if I liked it or ever wanted to have my own.
Did you name your rifle Charlene?
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Everything past that is varying levels of desire
Don't be obtuse. The point is that whether you deem something necessary is completely irrelevant to whether it should be legal to own. If you start making things illegal because they aren't necessary, you're not going to stop for a long, long time. It's a weak argument that gets repeated for reasons that are unclear to me.
Doris
Seriouspost: You only handle the real thing once in AF basic, and you only use your trainer weapon for a couple of classes and the gas chamber, or when you're on EC, and BEAST
Well that and when they test you on breaking it down and putting it back together and that shit's easy
A classic.
You'll probably fire an M-4 though.
Reductio ad absurdum
I'm sure you can find wikipedia on your own
Fine. Most people would not benefit sufficiently from having an assault rifle to warrant the danger it would pose to them. With compulsory education sponsored by the government at a federal or state level required to own such a weapon, the scales could tip to justify placing such firepower in the hands of the public.
Can you get behind that, at least?
Nope, Navy. Only weapons in basic are the M-9 and 12-gauge shotgun.
Don't you mean before that?
Or are we talking about planning one out's afterlife?
If you get why I asked you if you named it Charlene I'll give you 100 rape dollars.
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using your criteria can you identify which of the following are assault weapons
Gomer Pyle named his rifle Charlene
Give me some credit man, Full Metal Jacket quotes made up at least a quarter of the conversation in my dorm
I told my friends about this and they were like "cool"
For especially tenacious deer.
I'm pretty sure everyone ever supports better fire arms education
And I think heavily restricting inherrantly dangerous objects is a good idea, so that the people who end up owning them really want to, and know what they're getting into
but I don't think we should make things illegal just because they're dangerous or deemed unnecessary.
I live there, and it's not enforced. It's more like a local joke than anything else. It's the suburbs so crime isn't that high anyway.
that one, officer
that's the gun the little girl was using
they were pretty responsible about it though and they only ever used them for work (moving drugs)
that looks like you covered a pistol in superglue and dropped it in a spare parts box
what is that on the bottom, a phone?
The Dardick Pistol: The Pistol of Idiots
I think it's a drum
You'd be surprised, man. A lot of people don't support fire arms education because they don't support fire arms in any regard.
By "necessary" I didn't mean "required to exist." I guess what I was mostly getting at is that it would not significantly improve the quality of their life, especially compared to how easily people can hurt themselves with shit like that.
Education is really the most important thing. Not only book learnin', but actual required practice with an on-site expert.
So in the same way people are only allowed to drive a car if they pass a driving test, you would propose a similar scheme for gun ownership/use?
Would that not be exorbitantly expensive to set up, or just the same as a flat out gun ownership ban with exemptions for trained, qualified individuals?
bein' armed is
I am fairly certain that with strict taxation on publicly sold assault weapons, it would pay for itself after a relatively small kickstart. You only need like one program per state, less on the east coast, and finding individuals with the experience to administrate and run it would be child's play.
You don't think that the circumstances that the 2nd amendment was written in were substantially different than the society/world we live in today, a hundred years later to warrant revoking this right? Is the constitution so set in stone in America that it can never, ever change? While the UK doesn't have a written constitution like the US, the unwritten one has been modified so many times every year every week that few people object to the laws it has laid down. Would that not be a better situation? The America of the eighteenth century is not the America of the twenty-first, surely?
Read about the fascinating and dangerous life of the mall ninja who is out there protecting all us sheeples while we stupidly browse through Bed, Bath, and Beyond
is this...
are you even being serious here
the UK legitimately scares me, they seem as about two government shuffles away from 1984
Well uh. Being called the 2nd Amendment. It was the second time we amended our constitution. So obviously it is possible. It is just kind of hard, and you really need a good reason to change it. I honestly think there is a strong enough need to amend the 2nd amendment out of the constitution
as far as I can tell the place is a total shithole