Are you considering purchasing a gun?

I mean seriously if I owned a gun the most likely person to die by it would be me, what the fuck would I do with a gun

I don’t want a gun in my house the next time Aimless tells me to kill myself

I have surprised myself by no purchasing a gun in the past 4 years, although my belief that I should own and learn how to properly maintain one has solidified. And I've gone from "it would be cool to have a shotgun that could pull double-duty for home protection and waterfowl season" to "there's nothing wrong with a semi-automatic rifle with all that shit on it".

ha I feel this

Jesus

What are you gonna do with it

armed peace, man

What are you gonna do with it

Hopefully I would do nothing with it.

how are you going to prepare yourself to kill someone with it though?

"it would be cool to have a shotgun that could pull double-duty for home protection and waterfowl season"

i don't know why i have seen this before, i think i spend too much time on the internet https://imgur.com/gallery/nYIHM

^ blood and gore

ILX 2020: Are you considering downprinting a gun?

― nashwan, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 22:05

At least this is taking longer than I thought to happen.

heh, same. although i assume it's still happening, and that one really dumb kid who wanted to be the spokesperson for 3D-printed guns finally learned to stfu

didn't he get arrested for soliciting sex with a minor or something

he didn't even realize he could 3d print a minor

which also must be a real thing, i just realized

ok, i'm going to stop thinking now

join yr local SRA chapter imho

yup.

Optimistically, target practice on the weekends. Pessimistically, it would be a good thing to have in any number of scenarios as the world falls to shit.

As I mentioned the first time around, it's quite clear that the overwhelming majority of firearms are owned by people politically on the right, ostensibly because they want to "protect themselves from tyranny". I always scoffed at that: "they obviously don't get it - that's not how Democrats are." But I was missing the point.

The Republican mindset has been demonstrated to be one of projection. "We accuse you of whatever we are planning to do to you." It's not much of a stretch to see the parallels between "DEMS ARE CORRUPT LIARS (j/k it is we who are the lying and corrupt ones)" to "DEMS ARE GOING TO GOOSESTEP TROOPS INTO YOUR TOWN (j/k it's us)." Do I really think they would? Based on my life experience, meh probably not. But "meh" isn't enough to make me feel secure anymore. Additionally, I think that building up a culture of gun ownership on the left could perhaps take some of the heat off.

i've had a gun pointed at my heart before so i don't want anything to do with guns basically. also i don't think having a gun of my own would have made the situation any safer.

taking sides: getting a gun so that in the event of neo-nazis arriving at your door you can threaten them with your gun and/or try to kill enough of them to make your escape before the rest of them show up,
vs
living abroad

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, November 22, 2016 1:06 PM (three years ago)

Cool, you know any countries that'd pay to relocate a guy in his 40s with a B.A. in Literature who has spent most of the last decade just reading ILX?

my feeling is that anyone who owns guns for purposes of "self-defense" against potential military or paramilitary attacks would do well to learn how to fight a war, which is a somewhat more involved undertaking than target practice is.

if guns become like necessary for survival in the future then i'm fuckin dying

suggest dn change to 'piece man'

xp

nope! and no one's paying to relocate me, that's for sure. i'm just saying, imagine the actual scenario where you might be forced to use a gun. if you're imagining defending yourself against the racist apocalypse horde, that's a pretty extreme situation. i can imagine it, too - i have nightmares about that horde, with my dad as a foot soldier (or a leader). that shit terrifies me, but if it comes to that i hope to be far away when it happens, rather than in my bunker cleaning my guns

Guns are for forming militias and murdering schoolchildren, if you have any other purpose in mind they are a stupid idea

how are you going to prepare yourself to kill someone with it though?

This seems like the wrong question, or at least the less-interesting one; you should be asking "How are you going to prepare yourself for the aftermath of killing someone?" because the entire point of a gun is that it makes it really easy to prepare yourself to kill someone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuG9kUiRC_I

This seems like the wrong question, or at least the less-interesting one; you should be asking "How are you going to prepare yourself for the aftermath of killing someone?" because the entire point of a gun is that it makes it really easy to prepare yourself to kill someone.

― DJP, Tuesday, April 28, 2020 8:51 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

that's more of what I meant yes.

if guns become like necessary for survival in the future then i'm fuckin dying

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, April 28, 2020 10:36 AM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

^^^

i can imagine it, too - i have nightmares about that horde, with my dad as a foot soldier (or a leader). that shit terrifies me, but if it comes to that i hope to be far away when it happens, rather than in my bunker cleaning my gun

sounds like you have an in.

if guns become like necessary for survival in the future then i'm fuckin dying

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson)

it's more than that, i've had people say to me "kate, you don't need to own a gun, i'll defend you with my arsenal"

and i don't want to be rude, i'm sure they mean well, but could they please not?

i've had a gun pointed at my heart before so i don't want anything to do with guns basically.

― trapped out the barndo (crüt)

booming post. the only scenario in which this poll shld be rerun is if the yes/no options each include the qualifiers "(X), and i have/have not had a loaded gun pointed at me in anger"

when I was about 15 some folks turned up at my house with big 'ol guns looking for drugs. I don't think they were especially angry at me personally tho

did you answer the door while holding a gun? to protect yourself?

one thing that's important to know is that when people with guns unexpectedly show up at your house, whether they're authorities or villains, they will instantly recognize that you're a good guy with a gun.

if guns become like necessary for survival in the future then i'm fuckin dying

Yeah this. I feel the same way about preppers: if the world gets so bad that I'm forced to live in a bunker eating beans to survive, that's not a world I want to be in.

that's why it's important for more people to carry weapons in schools and other public places. this way, when a bad person with a gun starts killing people, you can pull out your piece and start killing people in the name of good, and then cops will show up and instantly recognize that you're on team good guys

Are you considering being fitted for a cyanide dental implant y/n

Statistics show cyanide pills overwhelmingly kill the people who had them installed

did you answer the door while holding a gun? to protect yourself?

no I was armed only w my matching leopard print pyjamas

in retrospect I am fortunate they did not mistake me for an actual leopard

they recognized you were a good guy leopard

Additionally, I think that building up a culture of gun ownership on the left could perhaps take some of the heat off.

Nice.

I'm still working through the political ramifications of "allies" who can pass for white belittling and mocking the fears of people who can't in a society filled with white people who own guns and a legal framework that permits them to justify killing non-white people.

I'm trying to come to a conclusion that isn't "allies don't actually exist"

jfc are you buying a gun or not

I mean go with God and your gun

I really just don’t understand what problem is solved by buying a gun for your house. How are you going to have time to remove your gun from the safe, disengage the lock, and load it before the militia at your door gets you? You’re going to unload, lock, and lock up your gun right?