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To: knighthawk

I’m one of them. I’m working on a vanity about how much fun taking a gun to the firing range is.

The more I learn about gun safety, the angrier I get over the gross stupidity about gun issues the progressives display.


5 posted on 07/16/2020 1:01:44 PM PDT by JusPasenThru (If Biden wins he will kill Republicans.)
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To: JusPasenThru
Welcome. Make sure that you learn the safety and rules. Most of it is common sense when you realize that an accident can really hurt someone.

Paul Harrell (youtube channel) is a good source of videos on all things gun related.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6QH13V2o68zynSa0hZy9uQ

12 posted on 07/16/2020 1:07:32 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: JusPasenThru

We gun owners have been screaming it for YEARS. The outright unchallenged lies peddled by the MSM are incredible.

There is no gun show “loophole”. There is nothing you can legally do at a gun show you cannot do elsewhere.

AR-15s and AK-47s (they’re not AK-47s...real ones are fully automatic...what we buy on the civilian market are not) are not “powerful”. They fire an intermediate cartridge that is WAY weaker than what your great grandpappy fired out of his Springfield rifle in WWI, namely the 30-06.

Real actual “assault rifles” are capable of fully automatic fire BY DEFINITION. What we buy on the civilian market are not “assault rifles”.

30 rounds is a standard capacity magazine, not a “high capacity” magazine.

AR-15s are not “weapons of war”. They are and have always been civilian rifles. No military in the world sends its troops into battle with AR-15s or any other semi automatic rifle as their main rifle. That has not been the case for at least 50 years or so.....but the way, a knife can be a “weapon of war”. What the hell is that term even supposed to mean?....other than to scare ignorant soccer moms and the like?

96% of all murders are with handguns. ALL LONG GUNS COMBINED account for fewer than 400 per year. That includes all rifles. That includes shotguns.

Concealed Carry Permit holders are less likely to commit crimes than police officers.

2/3rds of all gun deaths in America are.....wait for it.....suicides.

No, having guns does not cause a high suicide rate and it is perfectly possible to have a high suicide rate without guns. Look at Japan.

The US does not lead the world in mass shootings. In fact, its not even close.

In the last generation, crime and murder have been cut in half even as the number of privately owned firearms has doubled. More guns, less crime.

The places in the US that have particularly high murder rates...ie the places that account for many of the 10,000 or so murders with guns every year....places like Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Baltimore, New Orleans, etc all have strict gun control and all have Democrat mayors - and have for generations.

You are twice as likely to be murdered with hands and feet as you are to be murdered with ANY long gun in America. You are FIVE TIMES as likely to be stabbed to death as murdered with any long gun in America.


31 posted on 07/16/2020 1:38:48 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: JusPasenThru

Me too. Haven’t been to the range yet but soon...soon :)


49 posted on 07/16/2020 4:06:03 PM PDT by visualops (WooHoo Trump Train! Get on board or get out of the way!)
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