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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAre you now considering concealed carry?
The right wing, tea party types are heavily armed and trigger happy. Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)We have strong gun laws, and a serious lack of crazy and paranoia.
No guns for me.
premium
(3,731 posts)and I've never felt any hatred or danger to my well being, most of my friends are RWingers, we just don't talk politics.
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)Nothing has happened today to make guns a good idea.
If you get a gun the likeliest victim will be yourself or a family member.
Isn't your violent empowerment fantasy exactly the same as the tea-baggers?
blogslut
(38,002 posts)otohara
(24,135 posts)but I'm terrified for my son - who is biracial and lives in NC where he has seen men with assault rifles walking around.
Fuck
KarenS
(4,079 posts)But I think some sensible gun laws might come back if
Women started carrying guns.
Liberals started carrying guns.
People of color started carrying guns.
Trust me when I say, I'm really not stable enough to own one.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)DO legally carry concealed weapons.
KarenS
(4,079 posts)If lots of women, liberals and people of color began carrying weapons and flaunting them like the good ol boy Libertarians here in Arizona do,,,, then some laws would probably be changed,,,,
Let me repeat also that I am being sarcastic.
I would never own a gun let alone carry one.
I'm just very angry right now.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)anger and frustration. I believe Zimmerman should not have done what he did, he should not have been armed as a neighborhood watch member.
Many of our gun laws were passed and kept for years in order to keep blacks (freed slaves in the 19th century) from being able to legally purchase and own guns.
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frazzled
(18,402 posts)Guns are the bane of our society.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)(Possibly lacking in machismo a little........ but then again, there is nothing that I need to "overcompensate" for)
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)I think not
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)of tragedy for my family from the barrel my own gun than an aggressive stranger, but that just might be my white privilege talking.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)SheilaT
(23,156 posts)ileus
(15,396 posts)2ndAmForComputers
(3,527 posts)Quixote1818
(28,946 posts)I don't want to be put in the position to kill someone. I just want to lower their chances of killing or hurting me.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)...and a CCW permit holder since the early 90's.
Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)But if I lived in Whitetrashistan and leaving were not an option I would sure be considering it.
My general attitude about guns from having spent time in the third world is when you carry a gun you're a combatant. I don't really see the CCW freaks any differently than the morons swaggering around a third world high street with their AK-47.
Although I would be interested in taking a CCW class in the deep south, just out of morbid curiosity as I have heard some of these classes are basically step-by-step instructions on how to get away with murder.
Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)and I am a woman and a gun owner but the only time my guns leave the house is when I go to the range. I don't cc.
rrneck
(17,671 posts)struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)There are some exceptionally gutless exceptions, I suppose
NickB79
(19,253 posts)And fuck no, I'm not considering concealed-carry. In fact, every one of my guns stays locked up, unloaded, in a safe, WITH trigger locks on them to boot.