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Seems like in my town there's at least 1 story every year of someone fiddling with their guns while drunk who end up shooting themselves/ a friend. Given how low the murder rate is here, I have to imagine in more "violent" places such occurrences generally go unnoticed by the community at large.
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Who What Now posted:There's really no such thing as a "responsible gun owner". Merely a gun owner that hasn't hosed up just yet. It's like "temporarily embarrassed millionaires," but for home safety.
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Sep 5, 2016 01:08
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If someone tells you that Chris Hedges on Russia Today is a great liberal voice is that true? I see he's a big voice against fascism but I don't understand how he lands at RT. That is dissonant to me. Google isn't helping. What am I missing? I see him stoking the resentment against HRC as Sanders supported her nomination. What else is going on, here?
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Sep 5, 2016 01:25
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ErIog posted:It's like "temporarily embarrassed millionaires," but for home safety. The reason they have those four is because you have to gently caress up at least two before someone is in serious danger, because you are definitely going to break at least one at some point. Reducing it to three just makes dangerous ND more likely.
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Sep 5, 2016 01:28
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Generally, you're unlikely to be the victim of a home invasion unless the home invaders have reason to believe that you have extremely valuable stuff inside, possibly protected by safes that they'll need you to open. Alternatively don't live in a well-off area. My family is poor as poo poo and our house is definitely the crappiest looking in an area where everyone else probably makes seven figures or more and we got burgled. The only thing that got stolen (which was also the only thing of value in the house) was my $200 laptop. They also stole my flashlight, which I guess makes sense. We generally lock every window and door because my parents are insanely paranoid but we left our tiny kitchen window unlocked accidentally that day and that's how they got in. None of us were home, either, as I imagine most thieves want to run into you about as much as you want to run into them. I guess the lesson there is that you really don't have to worry about violent home invaders since they don't particularly exist, material goods are replaceable, and if you want to deter thieves then lock all your doors and windows since they'd rather not go through the effort of breaking in when they can just find a place that's already open.
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Sep 5, 2016 01:38
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That email fwd in real life: "I left a loaded firearm sitting on a wheelchair to prove some vague political point. Unfortunately, while I was out of the house a truck drove over a speedbump nearby and the vibration from that caused the gun to fall out of the wheelchair and accidentally discharge. Now I'm facing charges of 'reckless endangerment' and they're saying its lucky nobody got hit when that gun went off."
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Sep 5, 2016 01:43
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DarkHorse posted:Another reason I get annoyed with the NRA is they changed the four rules of gun safety (the gun is always loaded; never point it at anything you don't intend to destroy; only touch the trigger when you're ready to shoot; know what is ahead of, behind, and around your target) and reduced it to three, for some reason. Which one did they drop? They all sound vitally important to me.
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Sep 5, 2016 01:49
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Who What Now posted:There's really no such thing as a "responsible gun owner". Merely a gun owner that hasn't hosed up just yet. We're thrill-seekers just like sky divers or bungie jumpers. Except it's even more exciting because we ALSO endanger anybody that happens to be nearby. It's just such an electric feeling walking around and knowing that at any moment the sword could drop. Will it be me, a family member, a total stranger? Who knows!
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Sep 5, 2016 02:11
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:Which one did they drop? They all sound vitally important to me. I'm totally guessing, but I'm going to guess number two because it unfairly demonizes guns or some horse poo poo.
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Sep 5, 2016 02:14
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Instant Sunrise posted:That email fwd in real life: "I left a loaded firearm sitting on a wheelchair to prove some vague political point. Unfortunately, while I was out of the house someone stole it."
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Sep 5, 2016 02:16
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Snowman Crossing posted:We're thrill-seekers just like sky divers or bungie jumpers. Except it's even more exciting because we ALSO endanger anybody that happens to be nearby. It's just such an electric feeling walking around and knowing that at any moment the sword could drop. Will it be me, a family member, a total stranger? Who knows! "Wheel-Of-Accidental-Shootings Spin spin spin! Tell us who the bullet should go in!"
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:Which one did they drop? They all sound vitally important to me. E: quote:The fundamental NRA rules for safe gun handling are: DarkHorse fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Sep 5, 2016 |
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Sep 5, 2016 02:39
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 backfired in that she performed for 17 minutes, by most accounts stole the show, and won best video? no, it backfired because some butthurt conservatives tweeted they didn't like it. Note that this part of the performance did not at all reference police. Just killing black people.  speak english     scary muslim beard man takes flight!   Pizza  in 1999 a guy you regularly call a race baiting racist mcracistface said Trump was ok.  margaret sanger  "black friends" anyone get bingo?  confederate flag  This is that thing where the kids were told to try copying the thing to see how hard arabic writing is. they weren't indoctrinated because they couldn't read it  I had a sarcastic comment to make here but instead my brain tried to commit mutiny against my eyeballs for having viewed such stupidity  I clicked this one. The argument is literally "trump mocks everyone this way, therefore he wasn't making fun of that guy"  import-a-terrorist  Cash loving money this was a brown person and not actually a refugee  I mean you're literally telling immigrants to get murdered in nazi death camps.  in conclusion
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Sep 5, 2016 02:51
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poo poo I don't wanna touch the poop but there is some easy loving troll potential to be had.
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Sep 5, 2016 03:05
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DarkHorse posted:They merged two of them, can't remember which. I think it's 2 and 3. Eh, they kinda got rid of "always assume the gun is loaded" and switched it with "always unload the gun until ready for use". Which is a problem because many accidents occur because the idiot thought they had already unloaded the gun and hadn't.
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Sep 5, 2016 03:39
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"Always unload the gun until ready for use" seems like it goes against the kind of thing the NRA stands for, because if a hired assassin breaks into your house in the middle of the night he's not going to wait for you to load your gun. I actually did see someone on another site say that keeping your guns unloaded and locked up was stupid for that very reason, and that instead you should keep a loaded gun in an unlocked location close to your bed, and yto just teach your kids that they're not toys and capable of hurting others and all that. I mean that's incredibly dangerous thinking but at least he's not ignoring the contradiction in "Keep your guns locked up" and "Guns are necessary to protect your family from intruders."
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Sep 5, 2016 03:49
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Twelve by Pies posted:"Always unload the gun until ready for use" seems like it goes against the kind of thing the NRA stands for, because if a hired assassin breaks into your house in the middle of the night he's not going to wait for you to load your gun. The current doctrine for NRA-sponsored gun safety programs expands on the concept of "in use" to include keeping it loaded for self-defense, so people who carry a gun or keep it in the nightstand won't immediately be in violation of The Third Rule.
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Sep 5, 2016 04:00
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So in other words "Keep your gun unloaded unless you don't want to, your call".
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Sep 5, 2016 04:15
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Defenestration posted:
The other week Ann Coulter defended Trump by saying he was doing "a standard retard."
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Twelve by Pies posted:"Always unload the gun until ready for use" seems like it goes against the kind of thing the NRA stands for, because if a hired assassin breaks into your house in the middle of the night he's not going to wait for you to load your gun. poo poo, I was told right here in D&D that I was stupid for keeping my guns in a storage shed (the kind you see on Storage Wars) instead of in my house. The mindset that you need constant access to a weapon at all times is basically a core personality trait for a lot of people.
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Sep 5, 2016 04:38
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Dr. Faustus posted:If someone tells you that Chris Hedges on Russia Today is a great liberal voice is that true? I see he's a big voice against fascism but I don't understand how he lands at RT. That is dissonant to me. Sort of. He's been writing about the failure of American democracy for the last decade, way before going to RT. I think the author of "Death of the Liberal Class" might take some issue with being called a "great liberal voice," though. RT is pretty good for US political news because US politics is a total shitshow and Russia is happy to air that dirty laundry. I'm not sure what's so dissonant about the idea.
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Who What Now posted:poo poo, I was told right here in D&D that I was stupid for keeping my guns in a storage shed (the kind you see on Storage Wars) instead of in my house. The mindset that you need constant access to a weapon at all times is basically a core personality trait for a lot of people. 
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Sep 5, 2016 04:54
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"Alright honey, I can see you have a lot of questions like "why can I only hear out of one ear" and "where the gently caress did my side of the headboard go" well first let's have a talk about self-defense"
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I'm not sure I believe that isn't a parody.  I'm also torn between "drat that's actually kind of neat" and "oh god what happens if you fumble when you grab it and hit your wife in bed?"
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Lightning Knight posted:I'm not sure I believe that isn't a parody. It's really not a parody. http://gunbed.net https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRUw3R5kZtk
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Sep 5, 2016 05:02
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Absolutely no way that can go wrong. Y'know, I think the most baffling thing for me right now is: If I were going to go through the mental gymnastics necessary to convince myself that the fantasy world I live in was reality, I would be making sure the fantasy was awesome and fun. I sure as poo poo wouldn't be convincing myself that Obama was forcing 3rd graders to gay marry each other in front of a statue of Allah raping Uncle Sam that was made out of stolen guns.
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Sep 5, 2016 05:03
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computer parts posted:It's really not a parody. Haha what the Christ, this is some poo poo that my girlfriend's paranoid gun obsessive hunting family would buy and install into their hunting cabin thing. "WAS THAT A DEER?!" *bang* "Oh sorry Billy, go back to bad god dammit."
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Sep 5, 2016 05:03
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I'd put money on anyone owning this shooting their partner/child as they go to the bathroom at 3AM.
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wouldn't you end up elbowing your partner in the face if you tried that while sleeping also shouldn't he be under the covers what if you're trying to bang and you push the wrong part of the headboard
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Sep 5, 2016 06:28
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:what if you're trying to bang and you push the wrong part of the headboard You'll go from trying to bang to an accidental bang.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:You'll go from trying to bang to an accidental bang. Surprise bang?
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Sep 5, 2016 07:44
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It's always a little creepy how good fascists are at co-opting the language of progressivism and leftism or turning it into dirty words no one wants to associate with.
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"Willing to sacrifice even his life and honor" -- I love this spin; it's like, I'll be the guy who does bad things you all secretly want so that you guys don't have to sully your consciences with the burden of guilt. Thanks Obama.
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Sep 5, 2016 07:59
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the_steve posted:Absolutely no way that can go wrong.
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 I d'awwwed  great nation in my eye's     Flag boy  america needs graphic design  termites  forgive me father for I have sinned. I said that liberals should be exterminated like termites and that immigrants should be sent to Auschwitz style showers. We cool?  eagle  the distribute the wealth memes come earlier each year  who would have thought taco bowls would be the major symbol of this election  white children, as far as the eye can see  ask why this macro exists   too easy   olds  Trump is going to apologize to Iraq and Yemen?  sure  sure she was, but that should make you for her since you've blasted that dog whistle for 8 years now  I would hope they would notice something in her hand. because they have eyes In conclusion 
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"I'm not owned! I'm not owned! I insist as I slowly shrink and transform into a Libertarian."
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both glasses are poisoned and he drinks one anyway and dies...
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