do you ask about guns at a family's house before letting your kid go to a playdate there?

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Anonymous wrote:Gun owner here. I don’t own own guns primarily to hunt or defend myself, it’s really just a hobby. I shoot at the range, come home and store my guns, and that’s it. Most people would not guess I own a gun. I — and most other gun owners I know— are absolutely in favor of stricter gun laws. Guns should absolutely be regulated and licensed. But whenever guns come up, I find that the left (even people who are seemingly reasonable/tolerant otherwise) starts screaming that GUNS KILL, we will take your guns, ALL GUN OWNERS ARE EVIL, etc. This gets the extreme right riled up and they start screaming that the guns will have to pried from their cold, dead hands, COME AND TAKE THEM, etc.

I’d love to see more moderate folks (including myself) come together and pass some common sense gun laws. Surely even the far left can get behind that? Yet every time I try to discuss, I get called names and get that knee jerk reaction. Let’s be real, my guns aren’t going anywhere. This country is not going to banning all guns and confiscating mine. I do think we need more regulation and don’t understand why I should get demonized for that.

Your viewpoint is exactly like mine. I’m a very conservative LEO wife (with a LE career path of my own) and we own several guns—including an AR-15 (the horror!!!!!) that DH uses for work or at the range. It is very hard to have a calm and rational discussion with people who just immediately jump to one conclusion and cling to it. Yes—i firmly believe in protecting everyone’s 2nd amendment rights. But that doesn’t make me a gun but. Too many people assume it’s one extreme or the other.

Reality check: you are a gun nut.

This is why we can’t get any gun control legislation passed. I hope you take responsibility for your part in the deaths of victims of mass shootings, just as you blame all gun owners.

Why exactly do you own an AR-15? And “several guns”?

His handgun, my handgun, and the AR for target practice/his work. In my county we had an active shooter situation where the shooter was targeting random people/cars in a Walmart parking lot. He was taken out by a policeman with an AR-15. You’re welcome.

Key word there.

[Anonymous]

^^^i mentioned that the first time I posted about it. My DH wasn’t the cop who took the guy out but exact same scenario. That one had his own AR he used at work, as does mine. But they’re not department issued, just approved for use.

I’d have no problem requiring some kind of safety or operability course for a higher powered weapon. If there had been no police able to respond to this active shooter situation in time (or without a rifle) I’d have no problem with Joe Schmoe pulling out his own AR to take out the man.

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Anonymous wrote:Gun owner here. I don’t own own guns primarily to hunt or defend myself, it’s really just a hobby. I shoot at the range, come home and store my guns, and that’s it. Most people would not guess I own a gun. I — and most other gun owners I know— are absolutely in favor of stricter gun laws. Guns should absolutely be regulated and licensed. But whenever guns come up, I find that the left (even people who are seemingly reasonable/tolerant otherwise) starts screaming that GUNS KILL, we will take your guns, ALL GUN OWNERS ARE EVIL, etc. This gets the extreme right riled up and they start screaming that the guns will have to pried from their cold, dead hands, COME AND TAKE THEM, etc.

I’d love to see more moderate folks (including myself) come together and pass some common sense gun laws. Surely even the far left can get behind that? Yet every time I try to discuss, I get called names and get that knee jerk reaction. Let’s be real, my guns aren’t going anywhere. This country is not going to banning all guns and confiscating mine. I do think we need more regulation and don’t understand why I should get demonized for that.

Your viewpoint is exactly like mine. I’m a very conservative LEO wife (with a LE career path of my own) and we own several guns—including an AR-15 (the horror!!!!!) that DH uses for work or at the range. It is very hard to have a calm and rational discussion with people who just immediately jump to one conclusion and cling to it. Yes—i firmly believe in protecting everyone’s 2nd amendment rights. But that doesn’t make me a gun but. Too many people assume it’s one extreme or the other.

Reality check: you are a gun nut.

This is why we can’t get any gun control legislation passed. I hope you take responsibility for your part in the deaths of victims of mass shootings, just as you blame all gun owners.

Why exactly do you own an AR-15? And “several guns”?

His handgun, my handgun, and the AR for target practice/his work. In my county we had an active shooter situation where the shooter was targeting random people/cars in a Walmart parking lot. He was taken out by a policeman with an AR-15. You’re welcome.

So you have three or you have several?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^^i mentioned that the first time I posted about it. My DH wasn’t the cop who took the guy out but exact same scenario. That one had his own AR he used at work, as does mine. But they’re not department issued, just approved for use.

I’d have no problem requiring some kind of safety or operability course for a higher powered weapon. If there had been no police able to respond to this active shooter situation in time (or without a rifle) I’d have no problem with Joe Schmoe pulling out his own AR to take out the man.

How about that lady shooting in the Walmart parking lot, trying to hit a shop lifter? What do we do about her?

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Anonymous wrote:Gun owner here. I don’t own own guns primarily to hunt or defend myself, it’s really just a hobby. I shoot at the range, come home and store my guns, and that’s it. Most people would not guess I own a gun. I — and most other gun owners I know— are absolutely in favor of stricter gun laws. Guns should absolutely be regulated and licensed. But whenever guns come up, I find that the left (even people who are seemingly reasonable/tolerant otherwise) starts screaming that GUNS KILL, we will take your guns, ALL GUN OWNERS ARE EVIL, etc. This gets the extreme right riled up and they start screaming that the guns will have to pried from their cold, dead hands, COME AND TAKE THEM, etc.

I’d love to see more moderate folks (including myself) come together and pass some common sense gun laws. Surely even the far left can get behind that? Yet every time I try to discuss, I get called names and get that knee jerk reaction. Let’s be real, my guns aren’t going anywhere. This country is not going to banning all guns and confiscating mine. I do think we need more regulation and don’t understand why I should get demonized for that.

Your viewpoint is exactly like mine. I’m a very conservative LEO wife (with a LE career path of my own) and we own several guns—including an AR-15 (the horror!!!!!) that DH uses for work or at the range. It is very hard to have a calm and rational discussion with people who just immediately jump to one conclusion and cling to it. Yes—i firmly believe in protecting everyone’s 2nd amendment rights. But that doesn’t make me a gun but. Too many people assume it’s one extreme or the other.

Reality check: you are a gun nut.

This is why we can’t get any gun control legislation passed. I hope you take responsibility for your part in the deaths of victims of mass shootings, just as you blame all gun owners.

Why exactly do you own an AR-15? And “several guns”?

His handgun, my handgun, and the AR for target practice/his work. In my county we had an active shooter situation where the shooter was targeting random people/cars in a Walmart parking lot. He was taken out by a policeman with an AR-15. You’re welcome.

Key word there.

I thought police were the problem?! Which is it?!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:^^^i mentioned that the first time I posted about it. My DH wasn’t the cop who took the guy out but exact same scenario. That one had his own AR he used at work, as does mine. But they’re not department issued, just approved for use.

I’d have no problem requiring some kind of safety or operability course for a higher powered weapon. If there had been no police able to respond to this active shooter situation in time (or without a rifle) I’d have no problem with Joe Schmoe pulling out his own AR to take out the man.

How about that lady shooting in the Walmart parking lot, trying to hit a shop lifter? What do we do about her?

You’re really reaching with this. It undermines any minuscule hint of credibility your liberal arguments may have had to begin with.

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Anonymous wrote:Gun owner here. I don’t own own guns primarily to hunt or defend myself, it’s really just a hobby. I shoot at the range, come home and store my guns, and that’s it. Most people would not guess I own a gun. I — and most other gun owners I know— are absolutely in favor of stricter gun laws. Guns should absolutely be regulated and licensed. But whenever guns come up, I find that the left (even people who are seemingly reasonable/tolerant otherwise) starts screaming that GUNS KILL, we will take your guns, ALL GUN OWNERS ARE EVIL, etc. This gets the extreme right riled up and they start screaming that the guns will have to pried from their cold, dead hands, COME AND TAKE THEM, etc.

I’d love to see more moderate folks (including myself) come together and pass some common sense gun laws. Surely even the far left can get behind that? Yet every time I try to discuss, I get called names and get that knee jerk reaction. Let’s be real, my guns aren’t going anywhere. This country is not going to banning all guns and confiscating mine. I do think we need more regulation and don’t understand why I should get demonized for that.

Your viewpoint is exactly like mine. I’m a very conservative LEO wife (with a LE career path of my own) and we own several guns—including an AR-15 (the horror!!!!!) that DH uses for work or at the range. It is very hard to have a calm and rational discussion with people who just immediately jump to one conclusion and cling to it. Yes—i firmly believe in protecting everyone’s 2nd amendment rights. But that doesn’t make me a gun but. Too many people assume it’s one extreme or the other.

Reality check: you are a gun nut.

This is why we can’t get any gun control legislation passed. I hope you take responsibility for your part in the deaths of victims of mass shootings, just as you blame all gun owners.

Why exactly do you own an AR-15? And “several guns”?

His handgun, my handgun, and the AR for target practice/his work. In my county we had an active shooter situation where the shooter was targeting random people/cars in a Walmart parking lot. He was taken out by a policeman with an AR-15. You’re welcome.

Key word there.

I thought police were the problem?! Which is it?!

Oh, is three not several? Thanks, counting police. You’re so helpful and smart!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:^^^i mentioned that the first time I posted about it. My DH wasn’t the cop who took the guy out but exact same scenario. That one had his own AR he used at work, as does mine. But they’re not department issued, just approved for use.

I’d have no problem requiring some kind of safety or operability course for a higher powered weapon. If there had been no police able to respond to this active shooter situation in time (or without a rifle) I’d have no problem with Joe Schmoe pulling out his own AR to take out the man.

How about that lady shooting in the Walmart parking lot, trying to hit a shop lifter? What do we do about her?

+1

What is the policy to address every possible kind of scenario with a nutjob anywhere? Until the GOP has a plan to stop every potential scenario that could ever involve a gun, even ones where no one gets hurt like in your example, EVERYONE must compromise a little by giving up their rights. Seems totally reasonable. What could go wronng?!

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Democrats late 2017: Police are murderers!
Democrats early 2018: Only police should have guns!

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Anonymous wrote:Democrats late 2017: Police are murderers!
Democrats early 2018: Only police should have guns!

LMAO! So true.

Do you all want us to forfeit our 4th Amendment tights too, so the authorities can come and seize all the “assault” rifles and automatic weapons and modified weapons that are already floating around out there? Because, surely, once you make them illegal, no one will use them. Definitely not those with a criminal predisposition.

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Anonymous wrote:Democrats late 2017: Police are murderers!
Democrats early 2018: Only police should have guns!

LMAO! So true.

Do you all want us to forfeit our 4th Amendment tights too, so the authorities can come and seize all the “assault” rifles and automatic weapons and modified weapons that are already floating around out there? Because, surely, once you make them illegal, no one will use them. Definitely not those with a criminal predisposition.

I don't think anyone on this thread has ever said police were murderers. Nice try though.

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Anonymous wrote:Democrats late 2017: Police are murderers!
Democrats early 2018: Only police should have guns!

LMAO! So true.

Do you all want us to forfeit our 4th Amendment tights too, so the authorities can come and seize all the “assault” rifles and automatic weapons and modified weapons that are already floating around out there? Because, surely, once you make them illegal, no one will use them. Definitely not those with a criminal predisposition.

I don't think anyone on this thread has ever said police were murderers. Nice try though.

Um, you’ve all been saying it constantly for the last two or three years.

[Anonymous]

All parents should read this article.

It’s better to ask than to find your child dying on the floor when you go to pick her up. And it’s very disturbing that someone would lie. They should be held liable if something happens.

Article:

“Her daughter, Brooklynn, had just turned 13 and Mohler visited Brooklynn's best friend's nearby home in Las Vegas to lay down some rules with the friend's single father. It was the sort of conversation that mortified Darchel's three kids.

When Brooklynn was visiting, she told him, there could be no boys. No alcohol. No going out after dark. If she ever got in a car, her seat belt had to be on.
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She and her husband, Jacob, thought their bases were covered. But on the horizon was an issue they didn't foresee: Firearms.
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Jacob was annoyed when he showed up at Brooklynn's friends house to pick her up on June 4, 2013. He'd been trying to reach her on her cell phone, to tell her he was close, but she wasn't answering his text messages -- which wasn't like her. The only reason she had a phone was so that her parents could reach her.
When the door opened, her friend's little brother blurted out that Brooklynn was hurt. Jacob first thought he was being pranked.

The friend was holding Brooklynn and said she thought she'd been shot. He thought to himself, "What the hell are you guys doing with a gun," but he looked at his daughter and couldn't see any blood or a wound. When he rolled her over, he spotted the hole through her lower spine. He went into panic mode, thinking then that she'd either die or be paralyzed.

The story goes that the friend took a 9mm Glock from the kitchen cabinet.... She thought it was disarmed, that she'd taken out the bullets, and was messing with it when it fired.

The friend was freaking out while keeping 911 on the line. Jacob used the CPR training he'd had as Brooklynn gasped for breath. Later, he'd learn that the bullet tore through his daughter's spine before puncturing a lung and then her heart.

"Stay with me! C'mon! Don't go!" he said as he worked to save her before the ambulance came.

"I ultimately knew I was losing her," he says now.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2015/10/22/us/brooklynn-mohler-child-gun-death/index.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^^i mentioned that the first time I posted about it. My DH wasn’t the cop who took the guy out but exact same scenario. That one had his own AR he used at work, as does mine. But they’re not department issued, just approved for use.

I’d have no problem requiring some kind of safety or operability course for a higher powered weapon. If there had been no police able to respond to this active shooter situation in time (or without a rifle) I’d have no problem with Joe Schmoe pulling out his own AR to take out the man.

How about that lady shooting in the Walmart parking lot, trying to hit a shop lifter? What do we do about her?

You’re really reaching with this. It undermines any minuscule hint of credibility your liberal arguments may have had to begin with.

What’s your plan to address this? Or do you really think it’s ok?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Gun owner here. I don’t own own guns primarily to hunt or defend myself, it’s really just a hobby. I shoot at the range, come home and store my guns, and that’s it. Most people would not guess I own a gun. I — and most other gun owners I know— are absolutely in favor of stricter gun laws. Guns should absolutely be regulated and licensed. But whenever guns come up, I find that the left (even people who are seemingly reasonable/tolerant otherwise) starts screaming that GUNS KILL, we will take your guns, ALL GUN OWNERS ARE EVIL, etc. This gets the extreme right riled up and they start screaming that the guns will have to pried from their cold, dead hands, COME AND TAKE THEM, etc.

I’d love to see more moderate folks (including myself) come together and pass some common sense gun laws. Surely even the far left can get behind that? Yet every time I try to discuss, I get called names and get that knee jerk reaction. Let’s be real, my guns aren’t going anywhere. This country is not going to banning all guns and confiscating mine. I do think we need more regulation and don’t understand why I should get demonized for that.

Your viewpoint is exactly like mine. I’m a very conservative LEO wife (with a LE career path of my own) and we own several guns—including an AR-15 (the horror!!!!!) that DH uses for work or at the range. It is very hard to have a calm and rational discussion with people who just immediately jump to one conclusion and cling to it. Yes—i firmly believe in protecting everyone’s 2nd amendment rights. But that doesn’t make me a gun but. Too many people assume it’s one extreme or the other.

Reality check: you are a gun nut.

This is why we can’t get any gun control legislation passed. I hope you take responsibility for your part in the deaths of victims of mass shootings, just as you blame all gun owners.

Why exactly do you own an AR-15? And “several guns”?

His handgun, my handgun, and the AR for target practice/his work. In my county we had an active shooter situation where the shooter was targeting random people/cars in a Walmart parking lot. He was taken out by a policeman with an AR-15. You’re welcome.

Key word there.

I thought police were the problem?! Which is it?!

Oh, is three not several? Thanks, counting police. You’re so helpful and smart!

So you have three or more than three?