My personal opinion is that America should enforce compulsory concealed carry laws. You're too far gone to ban all guns - massacres are bound to continue to happen
Make sure that everyone is carrying, and you'll see less massacres. I mean everyone is armed right? Even if someone decides to attempt to massacre a room/building full of people, he won't get very far when Jenny from Accounting pulls an AK from under her desk

Soldiers do carry knives......

Not 'instead' of guns though, and they rarely carry potatoes.

For the record I am not some anti gun hippy, I currently have 3 rifles, 2 shotguns, 4 pistols, a Bow and arrows, and various knives in my bedroom alone. They are all tools that we as Americans are privileged to own, and a few people being irresponsible with them are the reason the government wants to take them from us all.

This sounds as silly as someone saying "i own 3 trucks, 2 SUV's, 4 cars and a motorcycle" only in this case we're talking about killing tools. One handgun for self defence? Sure, it's understandible, if i lived in a country that would allow me to have one i'd get one too. But that many? Why?

Different rounds and guns for different applications.

I hunt , I like to go to the range for target practice and competitive shooting, home defense, and concealed carry.

I enjoy my fire arms and have a lot of fun with them, and get just as much practical use.

If you enjoyed classic cars and had 6 of them would you consider that odd?

good for me i keep the shotgun near by...
some fools thought it was funny to bang on my door at 2 in the morning while in the middle of my internet spaceship session....they got a loud reply of the shotgun's "cocking" mechanism and subsequently beat their high school track records as a result :D

thank god for the 2nd amendment :)

'merica! **** ya \m/

If knives were as dangerous as guns, they'd give soldiers knives instead of guns. Somehow it seems harder to commit murder using potatoes as well.

We use them for pest removal. Invasive species don't shoot themselves.

If someone pounds on my door, it means that got over the fencing - most of it barbed wire which is common in these parts - and past the dogs.

if they are not authorized they die.

Shooting someone for knocking on your door is illegal most everywhere. Will you feel justified in your paranoia if you shoot a young panicked mother who ran to the nearest house because her baby is hurt?

edit: by all means, answer the door prepared for bad things. Chain on the door, foot behind it, gun concealed but accessible...but do NOT approach the door expecting to shoot someone. That's how innocent people die and you become a murderer.

I imagine your Eve rig is setup like this then....

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Shooting someone for knocking on your door is illegal most everywhere. Will you feel justified in your paranoia if you shoot a young panicked mother who ran to the nearest house because her baby is hurt?

edit: by all means, answer the door prepared for bad things. Chain on the door, foot behind it, gun concealed but accessible...but do NOT approach the door expecting to shoot someone. That's how innocent people die and you become a murderer.

You are incorrect.

I just pointed out that I am not afraid to turn on my own lights.

But I am onto the "distressed woman" trick and a woman pounding on my door means I don't go out that door.

But I am not going to predicate a "standing down" on the "it might be some mother in distress". I train people in the use of firearms and I have yet to have a student shoot the wrong person. I teach discernment and an overall system where it's not all centered on the gun and shooting.


But I have heard your argument before, from urban latte-slurpers who live in fear behind their locked doors and call the police for everything.

I assume you are in support of my 'Compulsory Concealed Carry' laws?

... America would defend that man's right to own a gun, based on the premise that gun ownership is somehow required to protect themselves from men like that with guns...

This sounds as silly as someone saying "i own 3 trucks, 2 SUV's, 4 cars and a motorcycle" only in this case we're talking about killing tools. One handgun for self defence? Sure, it's understandible, if i lived in a country that would allow me to have one i'd get one too. But that many? Why?

All this gun talk make me want to fondle my guns. I have them locked away and unloaded (too many kids in the house atm). I need to give them some love, fondle them, rub them with some nice gun lubricant... pour rem-oil till it drips out the tip.

Sounds like someone is overcompensating for something...

And this is why I'm glad I'm not american. Of course knocking on your door is such a dire thing that a shotgun is the appropriate response...

i like all this constructive talk about gun control in america. it is a very difficult situation because we as a country are centered around guns..(ie: won our independance through revolutionary means, wild west american culture, hollywood action movies) its a tough cookie no doubt about how gun control might work if at all. im all for the 2nd amendment (as my beretta and rifles will vouch for me) but there should be some sort of mental evaluation of people who own guns. obviously look what happen in colorado. the guy obtained EVERYTHING completely legal. same case with the columbine shootings AND the virginia tech massacre. as stupid as this may sound i do have to aggree that arming civilians to protect themselves is an immediate and effective way to combat physcos. ill be honest although itll be weird to have many people walking with guns on their hips (as if it was the wild west which it was normal back then) but i feel that with this many people in response and a good majority of them being sane and responsible (so we'd hope...) would react in good time and with some skill and training to limit casualties. at least im speaking for myself if i witness some guy in my neighboorhood losing it and going on a rampage (which would be fairly obvious to understand whats going on) i would immediately put him down asap its a sad thing but itll save possibly a mother and daughter and maybe even my family members which live in the area...
overall, yea i consider myself one of those sane sensible gun owners and i gladly would respond to any nut threatening public safety in my neighboorhood, again because if its in my area, i immediately think of my family and the chance that a murderous physco my stumble near my mom or dad or something...

You hear one shot and see one, no, two, no, thirty people with a gun and a spooky face? Who's the agressor? No time to guess as someone gets a bit too carried and begins shooting... and all in a sudden, there's a hundred stupid American shooting each other.

You hear one shot and see one, no, two, no, thirty people with a gun and a spooky face? Who's the agressor? No time to guess as someone gets a bit too carried and begins shooting... and all in a sudden, there's a hundred stupid American shooting each other.