My hot take - if you own an AR-15 you have a few loose screws

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a woman who loved shooting guns when I was younger and have been around gun nuts my whole life. Here’s what I learned:

- the people who are that into firearms are the biggest idiots when it comes to firearms. I remember being in a class where a guy bragged nonstop about all his experience and how many guns he owned. While on the range, he stuck his pistol between his knees so he could tie his shoe and it was pointed straight at me. In the classroom portion, where we were told to leave our firearms in our cars, he didn’t listen, brought his gun in, and when a woman mentioned she was nervous because she had never held a firearm before he pulled his out and shoved it into her hand.

- People with actual experience with assault rifles - military and LEO - don’t want them. Some do, most don’t. People who have been in actual combat know that there are better ways to keep safe than swinging your big AR around.

- LEO especially don’t want people having these firearms, because it makes their jobs so much more dangerous.

- The people who get massive hard-ons for ARs have zero tactical training and would run, hide, or cry in an actual crisis. The fat guy who sits on his couch eating KFC all day while jerking it to his gun collection would literally be useless if the government took over and he needed to protect himself (which is why he says he needs all those guns).

- yea, it’s fun to shoot them. I used to think, okay, people shouldn’t own them but ranges could and people can just pay them to shoot. Then I got to know gun shop owners and range owners, and there are some crazy ones. Like the guy who ran a gun shop, was working on opening his own range, and then snapped and shot his wife, ran around town with his firearms, and a SWAT team had to take him down (this happened in my city, I knew the guy and he had seemed normal to me). Now I think, if people want to use them that badly, they can join the military and go into combat. No reason for any civilian to have them.

I’m willing to give up the fun of shooting to ensure people are safe. Yea, it’s fun and cool. But the price tag is not worth it.

Thanks, PP. I appreciate your candor and integrity. My late FIL was a cop for decades and horrified about the rise of individual citizens owning ARs.

To the PP who thinks it’s “not for us to judge” - of course it’s for us to judge. It’s called having good judgment. It’s also abundantly clear that good judgment is something gun nuts lack. Hell, look at the cops in Uvalde—cowards to the core.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As long as the law allows it, it's not for me to judge. No, I don't own one, I don't ever will.

BS. Use your brain. Take a stand. Slavery and Jim Crow laws were also legal at one point. Germany in the 1930s made it legal to terrorize Jews. Just because something is legal doesn't make it moral. And you should make a judgment - those things are wrong.

[Anonymous]

Now I think, if people want to use them that badly, they can join the military and go into combat. No reason for any civilian to have them.

Maybe this can help with military recruitment.

“Be a real soldier. Don’t play around.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As long as the law allows it, it's not for me to judge. No, I don't own one, I don't ever will.

So your sole criteria for judging something is whether it's legal or not? That's asinine.

If your spouse cheats on you, that's not illegal - but it wouldn't be for you to judge?

If someone lets their 7 yo eat only potato chips and starburst, you wouldn't have any thoughts on the matter?

If someone walks around Minneapolis in the winter wearing only a pair of boxers, you wouldn't think they were just a little off?

[Anonymous]

I am a Republican and a Trump voter and I agree with you 100% OP. There is no reason these things should exist in the hands of civilian, everyday people. PP's analogy to owning a personal stock of nuclear weapons or grenades is a good one.

PS - I believe that we should start holding the gun manufacturers more responsible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a Republican and a Trump voter and I agree with you 100% OP. There is no reason these things should exist in the hands of civilian, everyday people. PP's analogy to owning a personal stock of nuclear weapons or grenades is a good one.

PS - I believe that we should start holding the gun manufacturers more responsible.

DP... I get that most people aren't one issue voters, but the R party has just gone of the deepend in many ways, and gun control, especially wrt assault rifles, is one of them.

Even the Bushes have turned their backs on the NRA.

-former R

[Anonymous]

It's worse than being nuts. They're just easily led. AR-15s are top sellers because they make people who can't shoot well feel like they can shoot well, people who need a sense of identity feel like they are "one of us", people who live in fear feel like they're powerful.

Owning an AR-15 is just a sign of a mark.

[Anonymous]

I know three people who own one or more ARs.

An auto executive
A biglaw attorney
A prosecutor (ex-military)

Most people would not guess that they own semi-auto guns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a woman who loved shooting guns when I was younger and have been around gun nuts my whole life. Here’s what I learned:

- the people who are that into firearms are the biggest idiots when it comes to firearms. I remember being in a class where a guy bragged nonstop about all his experience and how many guns he owned. While on the range, he stuck his pistol between his knees so he could tie his shoe and it was pointed straight at me. In the classroom portion, where we were told to leave our firearms in our cars, he didn’t listen, brought his gun in, and when a woman mentioned she was nervous because she had never held a firearm before he pulled his out and shoved it into her hand.

- People with actual experience with assault rifles - military and LEO - don’t want them. Some do, most don’t. People who have been in actual combat know that there are better ways to keep safe than swinging your big AR around.

- LEO especially don’t want people having these firearms, because it makes their jobs so much more dangerous.

- The people who get massive hard-ons for ARs have zero tactical training and would run, hide, or cry in an actual crisis. The fat guy who sits on his couch eating KFC all day while jerking it to his gun collection would literally be useless if the government took over and he needed to protect himself (which is why he says he needs all those guns).

- yea, it’s fun to shoot them. I used to think, okay, people shouldn’t own them but ranges could and people can just pay them to shoot. Then I got to know gun shop owners and range owners, and there are some crazy ones. Like the guy who ran a gun shop, was working on opening his own range, and then snapped and shot his wife, ran around town with his firearms, and a SWAT team had to take him down (this happened in my city, I knew the guy and he had seemed normal to me). Now I think, if people want to use them that badly, they can join the military and go into combat. No reason for any civilian to have them.

I’m willing to give up the fun of shooting to ensure people are safe. Yea, it’s fun and cool. But the price tag is not worth it.

Thanks, PP. I appreciate your candor and integrity. My late FIL was a cop for decades and horrified about the rise of individual citizens owning ARs.

To the PP who thinks it’s “not for us to judge” - of course it’s for us to judge. It’s called having good judgment. It’s also abundantly clear that good judgment is something gun nuts lack. Hell, look at the cops in Uvalde—cowards to the core.

You’re welcome

It’s interesting to me. Murderers aside, the men I know who were the biggest fanatics were also the biggest bullies….but also the biggest wusses.

Like last year I was in a store and a guy with gun everything, gun shirt, gun hat, 2nd amendment pin, started bullying a young female employee because she told him he needed a mask. He was very clearly intimidating her and she looked terrified. I stepped in, told him to knock it off, and when he protested asked if he wanted to take it outside. He immediately backed down and put his mask on (a MAGA mask, of course). And I’m a fairly small, middle aged lady.

I think a lot of it stems from insecurity. They’re in a hyper masculine subculture and need to prove they’re tough and scary, or other people might say words that hurt their feelings. Or another example, my cousin who is a big gun nut wanted to be a Navy SEAL. He got into a military academy but it was too hard and he quickly dropped out. So to feel tough like a SEAL, he’s super into guns, rather than, I dunno, just enlisting like anyone else would. But combat is too scary for him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know three people who own one or more ARs.

An auto executive
A biglaw attorney
A prosecutor (ex-military)

Most people would not guess that they own semi-auto guns.

Why do they own them?

[Anonymous]

IMO, people who own them do so because of self esteem issues -- it's a power trip. Kind of like that picture of Trump in a fire truck. They like to feel "powerful". It's scary to have people with that kind of self esteem own such a powerful weapon. That's why even some of Trump's own people were scared that he had access to nukes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know three people who own one or more ARs.

An auto executive
A biglaw attorney
A prosecutor (ex-military)

Most people would not guess that they own semi-auto guns.

Wouldn’t surprise me if these successful individuals also scored high on the psychopathy scale.

They have all this professional and monetary success, yet feel the need to add an AR15 to their life? There’s something missing inside of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know three people who own one or more ARs.

An auto executive
A biglaw attorney
A prosecutor (ex-military)

Most people would not guess that they own semi-auto guns.

Why do you say that? And why indicate their professions? Not one of those screams “not into AR-15s.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As long as the law allows it, it's not for me to judge. No, I don't own one, I don't ever will.

BS. Use your brain. Take a stand. Slavery and Jim Crow laws were also legal at one point. Germany in the 1930s made it legal to terrorize Jews. Just because something is legal doesn't make it moral. And you should make a judgment - those things are wrong.

So, what are you going to do about it?

[Anonymous]

This is a true story of having a gun for protection.

My old neighbor at the time 38 year old police officer with a wife and two very young kids woke up his house was being broken into. He obviously has a gun at home in safe. He called 911 and two officers came.

I asked him why didn’t he go down,

He said I am in pajamas I have a wife and two kids home. You never approached a criminal head on as it forces then to shoot or attack.

Best case two dead bodies in house. More likely I shot one or would two I lose gun in close range and they kill me and family.

Instead cops in full vests got them from behind they had choice turn around get shot or run. They ran cops caught up down the road on a safer place to capture.

Gun battles in your home with kids make no sense