Will they go to the gun range with us?
On Friday, to shoot silhouettes?

Spending all summer’s day in a suffocating subterranean bunker with an igloo cooler and a radio. Still have the scars on my forearm from girls on lifeguard chairs with itchy trigger fingers.

Good money, though, for teenager in ‘88.

Will they go to the gun range with us?
On Friday, to shoot silhouettes?

Paul. You can expect a lot of avoidance from these folks. They’ll even flat out tell you “you’re wrong” even if your argument is backed up with facts. They’ll spew lies on issues they know nothing about (Like DD and his insistence that the “Gun Show Loophole” is real, despite my repeatedly explaining to him how he’s mistaken) or JadeGold’s 100% false claim that guns were banned at the NRA convention this year, despite the fact that I was there and he was not.

When asked if there was a diagnosis performed on the source of the guns, the officer was dumbfounded. He stated that the guns were sent to ATF, but no one has requested any synopsis on any statistics gathered, or study done.
When people presume to make suggestions for gun controls, but fail to take into account, actually trying to study the situation, we have insanity.
714 guns confiscated in Wilmington, a city with 70,000 people, is 1 gun per 100 people. Presumably these guns were used in crimes, or possessed by persons prohibited. And therefore rightfully confiscated. [ I hope.]
BUT to do NO STUDY to determine the source of the weapons? Such a failure to study the guns and the data they provide, just indicates the politics of the situation is driven by opinion and bias. That is why I am against those who expound on GUN CONTROL, it is mostly uninformed opinion and emotions. And may I repeat, It is an avoidance of the issues presented in comment #19.
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“How do you have a rational argument with someone whose worldview is so irrational?”

It’s often like talking to a wall, which is why I was told I was “talking down to them.” I was, but only because they lacked capacity for rational thought on the issue.

We can’t carry sarin gas around or mine our front yard

In what possible way are Sarin or land mines germane to a discussion about handheld weapons used for self defense? Your hyperbole straw man grenade was ineffective, Jade. Try answering the questions you were asked.

It seems that the anti-firearms-rights crowd has no sense of proportion, that they see a pistol as morally equivalent to a WMD. Perhaps this is another manifestation of the inability to distinguish between protective violence and predatory violence. How do you have a rational argument with someone whose worldview is so irrational?

You want to carry a gun around? Enlist.

Jade, are you intentionally channelling Himmler?

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“there are no restrictions on handheld weapons”

and then went on to say that the BANS in DC and Chicago are not “restrictions”

Such blatant lack of intelligence precludes you from being taken seriously by anyone with a passable IQ.

And don’t you DARE tell me to go serve if I want to carry a gun. I got enough of that crap from TT already. I would never be allowed to serve anyway, even if we had a draft.

We can’t carry sarin gas around or mine our front yard; yet, we don’t feel restricted in any way.

You want to carry a gun around? Enlist. Support your hero, George Bush.

And Faln is silly, in a good way.

Again Jade – I can’t carry my gun in Dover but I can in the rest of the state. I can’t carry my pocketknife in Philly but I can here in Delaware. Care to explain how either of those are not “restrictions?”