Posted on 10/04/2015 2:05:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In an item after the Oregon shootings, I quoted a reader from Florida saying that if you owned more than 10 guns yourself, you might be considered to have an arsenal. And just now on TV I heard the British father of the Oregon murderer asking why anyone, including his son, would want or need so many guns.
Yesterday I quoted a reader who said, on the contrary, ten or more guns could be a perfectly reasonable collection for perfectly non-threatening citizens to have.
On the how much is enough point, responses from two readers. First, on the similarities and differences between gun nuts and other types of nuts, a reader argues that there really is something different in how gun owners relate with the rest of us.
Your correspondent argues that you can own ten guns without being a "gun nut", then proceeds to list an inventory that he feels makes his case.
Let's try to approach on different collections. Suppose I owned ten motorcycles of different types. Perhaps a cafe racer, an enduro bike, a big touring bike, and so on. Would that make me a motorcycle nut? Probably. You're a runner (I think). Maybe you own ten or more pairs of running shoes. [JF note: Over the years, yes. And lets not get into old computers, or types of beer.] I'm sure you can come up with a better list than I can, but I can imagine shoes for street running, dirt running, trail running, training, racing, and so on.
Does that make you a running shoe nut. Yup....
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
You shall be the bard of the party. I am good with science. I shall be the mage. We just need a fighter and a healer.
As long as you are collecting legal items, it’s no one else’s business. I have personally known old sailors that have collections of spoons, Zippo lighters, foreign currency, mugs and what ever struck their fancy, even a huge collection of Buddha figurines, drawings, artwork etc. all owned by an atheist.
Oh my god, I vote in every election, even for the school board. I guess that makes me a voting nut.
“Did you mean no legitimate strumming purpose?”
We’d have to hear him to make that determination!!!!
Wed have to hear him to make that determination!!!!
I had a friend who had maybe a million guitars, although that might be an exaggeration, prolly closer to 800K. Anyway, we used to play gigs together. He was a Berkley School grad and could play literally anything in any style. We played hoping to be the next big thing, but mostly to pick up chicks. He would pick up the flying ax (which he admitted sounded like crap - bear in mind he has several fender strats, les pauls, hollow body jazz number whose names I just don't know - don't play guitar, don't know much about them) and he'd wheedle and masturbate all over the stage with it and the ladies would sploosh and he'd go home a lucky man. We did this one original that he would use an old classical guitar, I think it was called a Ramirez or Rodriguez, something Spanish like that, to play this really fast, complex and technical intro based on a Bach violin sonata. It was a beautiful song and the audiences loved it, but they would never clap as loudly between the intro and the song proper like they would when he had the ax for a mid-song solo and was spooging fuzzy feedback all over the place.
The ax was for hunting. The old spanish classical for the hoped for illumination of one or two in the audience who were worthy of salvation.
They killed alot of Brits with those “muzzle loaders”.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.