Posted on 04/05/2020 12:33:45 PM PDT by rktman
Ilya from Michigan writes . . .
If you’d have met me three weeks ago, you’d unequivocally know my stance on guns. I was not only against the ownership of AR-15s, I was in the minority of folks who thought all private gun ownership should be illegal.
Fast forward to today: I own a GLOCK 19 Gen5.
I’m still in a bit of disbelief that there is a dangerous weapon in my house: one that more frequently contributes to accidental deaths, violent homicides, and suicides, rather than the romanticized personal protection experiences.
What happened? The world changed overnight and my opinion…evolved.
I’ve always been a strongly opinionated person, but I pride myself on the idea that my beliefs are loosely held. Strong opinions are great, but what you don’t want is to be egotistically blinded by them. I don’t want to be held hostage by a belief that is no longer valid, given new information. My views before
I live a pretty privileged existence. My family lives in one of the most affluent communities in Michigan. Everyone in the neighborhood leaves their doors open with bikes on the front lawn. Rarely do we worry about anything being stolen, let alone violent crime. I wasn’t born with this privilege, but worked really hard to get where I am.
Circumstances shape people’s understanding of the world, and my situation highly influenced my views on gun ownership. There was no argument, be it constitutional, personal protection, safety, hunting, or anything else that would change my mind and stop me from logically deconstructing your argument.
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Starting to think Ilya needs to return the weapon. Still NOT the correct mind set. Probably never will “get it”.
I would bet money that they will buy an AR-15 at some point in the near future.
Me neither. He bought a gun for the same reason people hoard toilet paper: because he fears none will be left to buy.
Why wasn’t he concerned about the consequences of the break down of civil disorder before? The old saw: conservatives are liberals who got mugged applies.
Maybe the shop owner convinced him the ammo is the dangerous part and would not sell him ammo.
Too bad she didn’t fail the Background Check.
Joemetia Biden thinks he can just hop in a Flying DeLorean, go back in Time and change his opinion that POTUS Trump was a Racist for stopping Travel from China and the EU back in January.
The same should apply for these Gun grabbers that wanted to strip their fellow Citizens of their God Given Natural Rights as outlined in our precious Constitution.
Frigging Traitors, all of them.
Agreed. I cannot fathom what mental gymnastics allow someone to enthusiastically support the “individual right to keep and bear arms” and then immediately parrot the Brady line about the danger of actually owning one when a new owner emerges.
A long time ago my first was a Glock 19 and lo, despite not being a military or police vet or from a long line of firearms users, my Glock hasn’t done one unexpected or undesired thing.
It’s been now 3 weeks MI has been under Witless’ lockdown and zero NDs. I know for certain it’s zero because the antis would be all over the news if there was even one.
Excellent point!
EXACTLY!
It’s going to take a LONG time for you to get forgiveness after what your bunch has done to me.
Add to that the wonderful scene from Night of the Comet where the girl is shooting a Mac10 and it jams....”That’s the problem with these things, they jam! Daddy would have gotten us Uzis!”
Well, in LIVE AND LET DIE, James Bond is saved because the girl’s REVOLVER did not have it’s safety off.
Talking about spewing my soda pop!
Just another flaming asshole following the herd. I hope he is the victim of his unintended consequence single action/no safety Glock and shoots himself.
Glock is a bad choice for anyone.
There sure are a lot of them coming out of the woodwork now. How horrible it must be to find out they are not the center of the universe.
Yup. New York City cops were shooting up everything when the were given Glocks. Gaston had to develop a “New York trigger” to mitigate the Glock fuster-cluck in the city.
Well welcome to the club. Please learn how to use it safely
His?
With a name like Ilya, I wasn’t too sure. I also did not give a damn.
They’re gonna shoot their eye out!
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