Posted on 12/20/2012 2:56:33 PM PST by HammerT
I know I probably shouldn’t have done it — especially because yesterday was a snowy day with the temperature here in Colorado dipping well below freezing — but on a whim I took all my guns and ammunition out in a small skiff on one of the nearby lakes and, sad to say, the boat capsized when I stupidly tried to prove to myself that I could do it Gangnam style, even in an inherently unbalanced situation, while also tending to a fishing pole.
All my firearms and my ammo stockpile is now, as a consequence, sleeping with the fishes.
Just so you know. All you who are reading here. And no, I have no plans to replace them at this point. Because children.
Loading a gun safe on a boat or root canal....?
I'm afraid I'd have to go with strapping you down for the root canal, instead of helping with the safe. I moved one. Once.
I marked it Abandon In Place with orange paint when I moved again.
/johnny
That’s the same reason I don’t own any firearms, Lancey.
What a co-inky-dink!
Nothing compared to what happened to me! I was in my new sail canoe, on Glen Lake. Gosh these things are fast! Tacked too hard, and flipped her over. Lost my guns and ammo, but also all my gold and silver that I was using as ballast! I’m ruined!
sorry for all of your losses
I am truly saddened at your news.
I know quite a few people who lost their guns during TS Irene last year.
I’m sure there are a lot who lost their guns recently during Sandy.
Floods are lethal.
Ping!
Yes, couldn’t believe it. Dad was taking our firearms across the Hood Canal (three miles across and over 1200 feet deep) to show them to some friends when suddenly the boat tipped some from the wind and over they went - 1200 feet down. Whoda thought? Boom, gone. Just like that.
Same ol’ joke, time after time, even though it lacks even casual plausibility (who takes their guns out on a boat?), but somehow this hoary, unfunny, unclever excuse for humor keeps being posted on FR. Some things cannot be fully explained, I guess. The only thing that comes to mind is a low threshold for humor among too many people.
OK, folks-time to get serious.
Should the authorities come after your guns, you will either fight or give them up. Fact is, if you try some lame-ass excuse like “boating accident”, they’ll knock out every wall in your house and tear every plank out of your floors looking for them. They won’t leave until they have them.
Sorry for the buzzkill, but, uh-wake up, folks...
Least it wasn’t the children that made the splash.
How are you doing with your diving lessons though?
Me, too. Lost most of mine on a kayak trip in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area years ago. Sold the rest a long time ago.
Same thing will happen to me too. I plan on moving them across the lake on Christmas Eve, and you know how dangerous guns are, they’ll probably go off on their own and shoot right through the boat and sink it. I’ll swim to shore, but the guns will sink.
My wife withheld sex from me until I agreed to take all of my firearms at least 3 miles out into Lake Michigan and throw them overboard... Yes, dear...
Gallows humor. We are facing an existential threat that is fairly likely to destroy the Untied States as a free country. Even (especially?) an old, tired joke is a relief when contemplating the danger that we all face in Obama's "fundamentally transformed" America. If the police, FBI, ATF, United States Marines, or some other government employees claiming "authority" come to our doors, we will have to decide whether to live as slaves or die free. Hopefully most of us have already decided which path to choose, but it's a grim future that we are approaching. We might as well chuckle a little until we discover whether there is a government force in our country willing to subvert our Constitution and our God-given rights - and they discover whether they have enough power to accomplish their drream.
That's easy. Mine were so close in age that I regularly explained that one of them was a spare, and they didn't want to force me to decide.
Well, I did, eventually. ;)
/johnny
I’m just wondering what with all these people signing up with the NRA are asking for it. How long will it take the fed’s to subpoena the NRA subscription rolls to get the names for later confiscation of their guns. Just wondering.
You never duck hunted? What kind of red-neck are you, anyhow?
/johnny
Something similar happened go me but it was out by the race in long island sound. The currents there are very strong so I doubt any if it can be recovered.
Wah!!!!
LOL! Do the logistics, son. Every federal agent would be dead of old age before they got through a few yankee states with that procedure.
Sorry for the buzzkill, but there ain't enough of them to stop all of us. Ever.
/johnny
I turned all mine in at the local gun-turn-in thingie. They didn’t even ask for my name... I suppose they destroyed them. I hope they did, for the kids ya know.
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