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Gun Ownership. Owning A Gun. [PICS]

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Alex's Grandma

23:31 / 30.12.05

This is possibly directed more to American 'Lithers than it is to the UK version, those milquetoasts - Guys, what's your favourite? If you absolutely had to deal with everyone in the room, etc, what would be your weapon of choice?

I've only got a 4:10 at the moment - It's not good enough, really, is it?

All Acting Regiment

23:34 / 30.12.05

I've got a modern tensile fibre crossbow. Hits a target at 500 metres. Folds away into a briefcase.

Seth

23:43 / 30.12.05

You see? If we had an Armoury Forum we wouldn't need to bear the public humiliation of having this in The Conversation instead of where it belongs.

But oh no, Seth. There's no need for an Armoury Forum. It's all covered by the existing ones... pathetic.

Saint Keggers

00:05 / 31.12.05

If you absolutely had to deal with everyone in the room, etc, what would be your weapon of choice?

Handgrenade

But if it can't be that, then a shotgun.

Char Aina

00:21 / 31.12.05

how big's the room?

run in blasting size?

blow up then mop up size?

blow up and run size?

All Acting Regiment

01:42 / 31.12.05

Έχω μια σύγχρονη εκτατή βαλλίστρα ινών. Χτυπά έναν στόχο σε 500 μέτρα. Διπλώνει μακριά σε έναν χαρτοφύλακα.

matthew.

03:08 / 31.12.05

Disclosure: I do not own a gun. I don't plan on owning one. I like guns in movies. I dislike guns in the real world.

1) Why do people own handguns (if we agree that handguns are not used for recreational hunting of animals and are instead for protection and/or manslaughter)?

2) When somebody owns a handgun, do they go to the firing range or do they just fire it in their back yard?

3) Why is it gun owners panic when they are asked to register their gun? In Canada, where I come from, we had this bill about to be voted on that was all about gun registration and gun owners were calling the government fascist and Nazis for doing so. What's the deal? Why is it so awful to register your gun?

4) Has any Barbelith gun owners ever actually unholstered and drawn a bead on a potential threat (other than an animal during recreational hunting)?

I don't mean disrespect by any of these questions. I just want to know, that's all.

Brigade du jour

03:10 / 31.12.05

I pleasure myself with my gun.

matthew.

03:14 / 31.12.05

I think that's rather common. *Yawns* Try and shock me.

iamus

03:55 / 31.12.05

I pleasure you with a taser.

Phex: Dorset Doom

04:11 / 31.12.05

Moving on...

Matt: I believe the problem with firearm registration is that part of the reason guns are tolerated is so should the government become tyrannical, there's a coup de'tat or invasion then if guns were registered the bad folks would have a big database of every potential freedom fighter they'd have to lock away and suchforth. On the other side of the coin, a dictatorship is probably not much of a concern in Canada 'ey, and in America the 'freedom fighters' this law protects are mostly Timothy McVeigh style whackjobs, and want to use said guns to fight our freedom to do anything but be straight white males.

But to answer the 'if you absolutely, positively had to kill every muthafucker in the room' debate: the FN-P90. Accept no substitute.

Mourne Kransky

06:40 / 31.12.05

Sarin gas. Quicker and cleaner and no risk of missing your target. Plus, nobody's thinking about the relationship between penis size and gun ownership as you instantly despatch them to the Great Hereafter, bwahahaing beneath your protective headgear.

ONLY NICE THINGS

07:55 / 31.12.05

Thinking about gun ownership alters my penis size quite dramatically. Does this help?

Hieronymus

10:05 / 31.12.05

Oh fer fuck's sake. Can we put the mendacities and misnomers about gun owners being penis-compensating, macho uber pigs to bed already? They're tired and need their beauty sleep.

My mother is the big gun collector in my family. And her weapon of choice happens to be a 357 Magnum.

ONLY NICE THINGS

10:59 / 31.12.05

So, you're saying your mother has a big penis?

Dude.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

11:02 / 31.12.05

If this was in a Weapons Forum such threadrot would not be tolerated, you know.

Just saying, is all.

Char Aina

11:49 / 31.12.05

2) When somebody owns a handgun, do they go to the firing range or do they just fire it in their back yard?

i fire at passing airliners, mostly.
they fly so high i can usually miss safely.

4) Has any Barbelith gun owners ever actually unholstered and drawn a bead on a potential threat (other than an animal during recreational hunting)?

oh, sure. it used to be pretty scary round here til i shared my bullets with a few locals. nothing says 'leave me be' like spitting stinging nuggets of nasty metal in someones face.
its also handy for keeping 'the man' in check. our parties go on all night with no word from uncle babylon, and nobody has been round to ask about my TV license in about two years.

you?

All Acting Regiment

12:18 / 31.12.05

Once I was like totally angry about this guy for some shit. So I did a proper William Tell job, except it wasn't an apple, it was his fucking ball sack. Now I use it as a pouch for keeping fragrant herbs in.

and SHIT!

Well, spitting them in someone's face may get someone to go away, because they think you're insane. Spitting bees at people is better though.

All Acting Regiment

13:18 / 31.12.05

I've got a .55 Antiselfsting Mouth Bee Container just for that purpose.

HCE

14:16 / 31.12.05

I have a BB gun which I used to like to shoot at cardboard boxes in my house (a double layer of cardboard stops the pellets, so I can reuse them) and at empty cans in the back yard. Won't work with bottles, there's barely enough power to move them, let alone knock them down. Most fun ever was donning motorcycle helmets and jackets and playing OK Corral in an alley with my girlfriend. Ah, youth. I never got hit but she reported that they sting quite a bit.

netbanshee

15:36 / 31.12.05

I have a wimpy .22 rifle at my Dad's house as well as 3 other guns I have access to there, a 9mm, a 30.30 and a 30.06. Used to fire the rifles at ranges and go white-tail deer hunting with them. A pretty enjoyable experience I must say. Probably since I never put a deer down on my own with a gun. Hit one with my car once and that was probably more traumatizing.

I think that knowing how to operate a gun efficiently is better than not knowing how to use one. I mean, just think of it in terms of potential survival skills and zombies. ZOMBIES! Gotta put things in perspective.

neukoln

16:27 / 31.12.05

Hmmm... I am wondering if we really want to be seeing this stuff on Barbelith? Are there not there other places on the Internet where people can talk about their guns?

Alex: I'm interested to hear why you feel that Barbelith is the place to be having this discussion... a discussion about weapon of choice for mowing down a room full of people?

Or maybe I'm missing the joke?

Ganesh

16:45 / 31.12.05

It's no joke. Alex's gun-obsession overlaps with his frank sexism - see his unseemly leering over the Bulleteer, in Comics - and has no place on Barbelith. It's filth, Alex, and I've had enough of it.

I'm moving to ban him.

Spaniel

16:50 / 31.12.05

I'm just moving.

Triplets

16:55 / 31.12.05

I've got a .55 Antiselfsting Mouth Bee Container

Antiselfisting?

Tits win

16:56 / 31.12.05

That was a joke right?

yeah, guns...They shoot bullets, don't they? Don't like the idea of 'em, but there's nothing more powerful than feeling your arm vibrate as you shoot for fun. And it's TOTALLY cowboy!

So, they do contribute to all the bad stuff, by their very being, but then, people who say violence isn't the answer are ignoring millennia of wars/power-struggles that did sort things out.

(I'm a big Punisher fan eh?)

Tits win

16:57 / 31.12.05

The joke comment aimed at Ganesh.

Spaniel

17:00 / 31.12.05

Personally I favour a sawn off shotgun.

I also carry a melee weapon.

Ganesh

17:03 / 31.12.05

The joke comment aimed at Ganesh.

Both barrels aimed at Tits Win.

Tits win

17:04 / 31.12.05

You can shoot in my direction anytime big-boy.