Quote (thesnipa @ Nov 3 2021 02:23pm)
i dont strongly or even mediumly disagree with any of this.
property damage preventing militias just give us gun owners a bad look imo. i want the first thought when someone hears gun owner to be someone in a duck blind or a skeet shooter, not a hillbilly in fatigues that never served wearing an AR knockoff with too many addons that couldnt hit 6" off bulleye from prone at 50 yards.
kyle and his brother said they were there to stop property damage, not gun carrying gang members. their words.
I'm glad we were able to reach some common ground, but you lost me at the bolded section here.
Super fudd mentality, if you're into skeet shooting and duck hunting by all means you do you, but that is not at all what the second amendment is about and it doesn't matter what anyone thinks of when they hear gun owners, if a person is acting within the confines of the laws this matters zero. I don't think you were making this point regarding any legality standpoint but it does shine a bit of light on what your feelings are towards the second amendment and the right to self defense as a whole.
As I read through the rest of the thread I also see more doubling down on the open carry escalation of violence rhetoric which is just plain silly at this point and seems to be being used throughout the thread (by multiple people) to insinuate that it may somehow in some small way justify people commiting actual acts of violence against the person carrying, which is obviously ludicrous.
Then what irritates me even further is the implications and outright admission that you think anyone who disagrees with the "escalation of violence" thing you're pushing as "basic knowledge" or "day one information" is somehow less responsible as a gun owner than you, as if that automatically means they don't take firearms training or safety seriously. That my friend is absolutely absurd. It's all coming across as if you're almost trying to virtue signal by using your arbitrary beliefs as a measurement for what constitutes a good firearms owner from a bad firearms owner. What you use your firearms for or want firearms ownership to mean to people has no bearing on that distinction.
Feel free to correct me if I am mistaken on your views but you are coming off this way imo
This post was edited by Crye on Nov 3 2021 04:27pm