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In reply to the discussion: The claim that someone fears gun owners so much that they would flee without paying for food [View all]CompanyFirstSergeant
(1,558 posts)164. I was in the woods today,
Last edited Sun May 8, 2016, 09:04 PM - Edit history (1)
My wife loves hiking,
We encountered about four or five groups of hikers in about as many hours.
No one noticed I was carrying.
Many were not from the area. For some reason, we happen to look like we are from the area.
Several people inquired about the unusual size and preponderance of coyote scat on the trails.
I had noticed the same thing. Coyotes in the northeast are getting much larger.
Not that I give a s--t about coyotes. They are still harmless.
What seems like a forest full of animals is usually several families of four or five coyotes, many are juvenile.
I was asked if I was afraid of being in the woods. They seemed to be afraid.
I said no, I am not afraid to be in the woods.
'Oh, good' they responded, and went on their way.
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The claim that someone fears gun owners so much that they would flee without paying for food [View all]
Nuclear Unicorn
May 2016
OP
If somebody takes his AR-15 out on a dinner date, I reserve the right to run away. (nt)
stone space
May 2016
#1
Open-carry demonstrators marched in Austin during the SXSW festival in 2014...
Eleanors38
May 2016
#62
Please consult my previous posts. Not to mention the post I was replying to.
SusanCalvin
May 2016
#132
Do drunk drivers keep you off the streets? Because they kill more than neglient discharges.
Nuclear Unicorn
May 2016
#16
But someone who isn't using a car in an irresponsible manner doesn't force you to quit the roads.
Nuclear Unicorn
May 2016
#245
They are doing everything in their power to keep gun nuts with guns out of communal spaces.
Squinch
May 2016
#4
And yet, in the incident I am thinking about, there were still a lot of dumb looking man-boys
Squinch
May 2016
#9
Don't even know what you are talking about here, but you seem to be making an assertion
Squinch
May 2016
#15
You're fighting a silly argument. The number of gun deaths in this country is nuts.
Squinch
May 2016
#38
There is only one goal post: gun deaths in this country are insane and unnecessary.
Squinch
May 2016
#61
Gun deaths in America are insane and unnecessary. What are gun owners willing to do to stop them?
Squinch
May 2016
#113
No, really it's not. What's uncomfortable is that you guys NEVER address the actual question:
Squinch
May 2016
#110
You are seriously defending those assholes? Infantile gun nuts who, armed to the teeth,
Squinch
May 2016
#121
"felt the need to point a bunch of weapons at a mother's group at Starbucks"
CompanyFirstSergeant
May 2016
#19
Back at ya. And nice edit from your original "don't be a pr**k." But not nice enough.
Squinch
May 2016
#23
"Yet when presented with peer reviewed data produced by the experts in the field or government
Brickbat
May 2016
#85
"Guns can and do discharge when drop and have injured and kill innocent people."
Nuclear Unicorn
May 2016
#11
And you're saying there is no danger unless a gun is explicitly dropped
My Good Babushka
May 2016
#27
Exactly! Not those words, but that tactic, is trotted out in every conversation with these guys.
Squinch
May 2016
#156
And you were able to put that together in about 5 minutes. It's all they ever do.
Squinch
May 2016
#161
Not exactly "all we have"; we also have two decades of court, legislative and state house wins.
DonP
May 2016
#149
So your problem is that I'm not doing enough to stop YOUR hobby from being responsible for
Squinch
May 2016
#157
Through your hobby, you enable and support the gun industry that is responsible for the insane and
Squinch
May 2016
#177
Nope. Don't do either. Buy your post is an admission that I am correct, that you do recognize that
Squinch
May 2016
#179
Suuuuuure. Your frantic justifications and attempts at distraction are all because you are
Squinch
May 2016
#185
You are enabling, financing and supporting the industry that is responsible for the fact that there
Squinch
May 2016
#194
Of course I am, just like you are financing wars and death in the middle east ...
DonP
May 2016
#197
Wow! You are working really hard not to look at the fact that I am pointing out to you!
Squinch
May 2016
#211
No one needs a permit to see exactly what is going on with you guys. It's plain to all but you.
Squinch
May 2016
#215
If you got better at your 'hobby' of posting your political views online...
friendly_iconoclast
May 2016
#218
At least my hobby doesn't support, fund and enable the industry that is responsible for the
Squinch
May 2016
#223
No. People make bad choices everywhere. Only here, where your hobby enables, funds and
Squinch
May 2016
#226
Ridiculous. Your argument boils down to, "If people didn't kill people with guns there would be no
Squinch
May 2016
#230
A gun is accidentally discharged inside a Chipotle in Sandy; gun owner not cited
Human101948
May 2016
#31
Tactical Response Instructor Has Negligent Discharge Into Student’s Vehicle
Human101948
May 2016
#39
"by having all of the students throw their pistols to the ground."
CompanyFirstSergeant
May 2016
#48
And this might be THE most important point in all of this. "Open Carry" is bullshit. The
Squinch
May 2016
#40
It's an attention getting power trip that has more to do with power, ego and vanity than gun rights.
procon
May 2016
#59
Your irrational fear of holstered pistols is funny. Almost as funny as your fear
Press Virginia
May 2016
#99
The fear of open carriers is a moral panic, different from the right-wing transphobic one only...
friendly_iconoclast
May 2016
#128
I didn't- I compared two moral panics to each other, *not* 'people to inanimate objects'
friendly_iconoclast
May 2016
#143
So you live in fear of the gun coming out of the holster....even though
Press Virginia
May 2016
#106
" the few thousand people across the country who can't leave home without a gun"
beevul
May 2016
#109
Poor poor gun owners! OMG they are being antagonized and inflamed! Sorry, this is garbage. nt
thereismore
May 2016
#176
I guess that means gun owners aren't nearly the threat they' re being portrayed to be.
Nuclear Unicorn
May 2016
#200
Is commenting at DU as dangerous as dining with ammosexuals and their AR-15s?
stone space
May 2016
#199
You really expend absurd levels of energy to misrepresent what people say.
Nuclear Unicorn
May 2016
#201
As I said previously, that is not what the OP is about and I suspect you know that.
Nuclear Unicorn
May 2016
#203
When you decide to show enough maturity to honestly deal with a subject I will address your comments
Nuclear Unicorn
May 2016
#206
When you decide to show enough maturity to honestly deal with a subject I will address your comments
Nuclear Unicorn
May 2016
#214
I don't doubt his sincerity, what's lacking is accuracy. I'm sure he believes every word he posts...
friendly_iconoclast
May 2016
#219
You do understand that your moral panic is no different than any other, don't you?
friendly_iconoclast
May 2016
#220
I made a bet with myself: that no gun person could ever fail to have the last word...
Jerry442
May 2016
#233