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Comatose Sphagetti

(836 posts)
22. Don't have to ask. I know. I see it every day.
Fri May 27, 2022, 09:07 PM
May 2022

I happen to know several people with AR's and thousands of rounds.
None of what they have could rationally be defined as necessary. None have what anyone could call a valid reason to address any real existential threat. (Keyword is "real.&quot
All will tell you their AR's are for 'yotes (6,000 rounds for 'yotes???), or "protection," or they like to collect them.
That's all bullshit.
The reason they have them can be described in one word. Fear.
Fear of "the other," fear of change, fear of the unknown; a thousand different forms of irrational, illogical, pathological fear.

2nd amendment is not absolute. thomski64 May 2022 #1
How? brooklynite May 2022 #2
Make them illegal. CivicGrief May 2022 #3
Go do it. GoodRaisin May 2022 #4
I've joined a campaign to get a Democrat elected sheriff in my county. CivicGrief May 2022 #6
And when the owner's refuse to turn them in? MarineCombatEngineer May 2022 #7
Then they would be breaking the law. CivicGrief May 2022 #8
The Sheriff's of counties are the enforcers of the law, they can pick and choose which laws MarineCombatEngineer May 2022 #9
Glad you think it's funny. CivicGrief May 2022 #10
I think it's funny that you think that confiscation could be achieved. MarineCombatEngineer May 2022 #11
I would think someone like you wouldn't feel so powerless to do something. CivicGrief May 2022 #12
You don't know jack shit about me or my views on gun control or ownership, MarineCombatEngineer May 2022 #13
These weapons are unnecessary no matter what your opinions about gun regulations. CivicGrief May 2022 #14
Other countries don't have the 2A MarineCombatEngineer May 2022 #16
Curious - Comatose Sphagetti May 2022 #19
That's something you have to ask of those that own those firearms. MarineCombatEngineer May 2022 #20
Don't have to ask. I know. I see it every day. Comatose Sphagetti May 2022 #22
You may be right, I don't know, I don't hang around with anyone like that, MarineCombatEngineer May 2022 #23
Good luck with that leftstreet May 2022 #5
The Republican shootings will continue until Republicans are made to own the shootings. GoodRaisin May 2022 #15
+100. MarineCombatEngineer May 2022 #17
It's gun CULTURE that worships guns, gets millions of guns out on the streets, and sees guns as wiggs May 2022 #18
I agree, but it won't happen. shrike3 May 2022 #21
Its really not about this type of gun. SYFROYH May 2022 #24
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