#responsible gun owner

[porterdavis]

#responsible gun owner

[shadow27]

60 killed, 500+ injured, thousands more whose lives were shattered.

#guns kill #2A #ammosexual #responsible gun owner

[rocks-in-my-vodka]

gun rights but only for nancy wheeler i think.

#listen #nancy just going 'oh yea sure i have 2 guns in my bedroom' was #SO FUCKING BADASS #omg omfg #responsible gun owner as well #nancy wheeler #natalia dyer #stranger things #stranger things four #steve harrington #eddie munson #millie bobby brown #eleven #mike wheeler #stranger things netflix #stranger things 4 #joe keery #dustin henderson

[cameron-carpet-lola]

Colt Police Positive Special in .38 Special - made in 1959 #colt #coltre...

#responsible gun owners #guns #colt

[thatonebasicfan]

#sirius black has a gun au #polls #my polls #its poll time #sirius black #harry potter #don't worry guys he's a responsible gun owner #about to make sirius an american trapped in a british body

[beardedmrbean]

#iirc her manager put out a statement #about how she'd just take it and rack it #for no good reason #not a responsible gun owner #but she did the responsible thing here

[gratefulfrog]

#2a #second amendment #gun control #red flag law #universal background check #well regulated malitia #responsible gun owner for common sense gun control #mass shootings #school shootings

[gaia-prime]

gun owners are insane every single one of yall

#a black teenager was shot for knocking on the wrong door #a 20 year old woman was shot for PULLING INTO THE WRONG DRIVEWAY #this is what owning a gun does to a mfer #makes you homicidal #or suicidal #there is no such thing as a responsible gun owner #every single gun owner is a danger to themselves and others #the appropriate number of guns in a society is zero #wanting to own a gun aka fantasizing about killing another human being is a mental illness

[raininyourbedroom]

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#tw school shooting #im so tired of kids dying in schools #being a teacher in america is exhausting #teachers get in trouble for assigning a book that happens to have an lgbtq character #but people with a record of being violent can buy guns no problem #i grew up with guns #i know the cardinal rules of gun safety #it is NOT HARD to be a responsible gun owner #but most gun owners in the us dont lock up their guns or follow ANY basic protocols

[justicetothestars]

I need yall to understand that guns are essential to some people's lives.

#gun owners #responsible gun ownership #im posting this without context to see what people know about what people use guns for #im pro gun control btw #i just feel like some of yall are disconnected from gun useage

[porterdavis]

About time. Actions have consequences.

#responsible gun owner

[seanhtaylor]

If you know me, you know my heart.

Just a heads up. I might lose followers after this one. So be warned.

I've really had it up to here with the good guy with a gun/bad guy with a gun BS. I don't know if folks realize this or not, but we don't live in the fantasized Hollywood version of the Old West, or the time of gangster bank robbers, or whatever movie version of the good guy/bad guy scenario you see in your head. Sure, someone may break into your house, but even that isn't as likely as your Lone Ranger fantasies of saving your family with a lucky shot make it out to be.

The truth is that rather than good guys and bad guys, we're looking at primarily kids with mental issues who had no reason to ever be near a gun. Sure, they need mental health care, but they also need to be protected from the possibility of getting hold of a gun.

The first thing we should do is make it a priority that certain people don't have access to lethal weapons designed to kill, and to kill many quickly. That means, in my eyes, if you have a record of violence through the courts (from hold-ups to spousal abuse), sorry, no guns for you. If you have mental health issues, medicated or not medicated, from depression and anxiety to delusions and paranoia, sorry, no guns for you. If you have kids with those issues, medicated or not medicated, sure, you can own them, but you must legally keep them safely away from the children -- in safes. Yeah, I know, but how will you be the big hero then? Well, are you more worried about the safety of your kid or the possibility of losing your TV? And yeah, I know, I know, YOUR kid knows better. Guess what each parent of a kid who shot up a school told themselves the week before the kid went over the edge?

I said it in a previous post, but you also need to maintain gun insurance. If I have to have it on a dangerous vehicle, or a dangerous dog, it only makes sense to have it on a dangerous weapon built with one purpose in mind -- killing another living thing. That way, if the worst happens, and someone is injured or killed by your weapon, then your insurance covers their costs, and your premiums go up because you have proved yourself incapable of keeping such a weapon safely away from harming others.

Also, no one needs an AR-15 or assault weapon to hunt. If you do, go back to the shooting range and get better at target practice. I have a school-age cousin who just won 4-H target shooting who could offer you pointers.

And, if you want to own one, you must be old enough (we can let smarter folks than me discuss the legal age) and pass both a written and practical test. Period. No exemptions. Yeah, I know you're 7 year old is an ace shot, but I was also able to fly a plane at the age of 11, but I still couldn't get a license. I see no difference with the ownership of deadly weapons.

So...

1. If you're stuck on the good guy with a gun/bad guy with a gun argument, you're deflecting with a strawman argument to avoid the real issue. The world isn't black and white, good guys and bad guys. And this isn't a John Wayne western or Peter Lorre gangster movie.

2. If you're stuck on the "it's my right" argument, the Founding Fathers created a way to change our rights based on our needs as our country grew up and older and bigger. Maybe it's time to move on. Let's put that Bill of Rights to work and fix things to make our kids safer.

3. If you're stuck on the "they can't take my guns" argument, grow up. When people talk about reforming the laws, very few bring up totally disarming citizens, especially those who can safely own and maintain guns RESPONSIBLY. You're simply trying to divert the discussion with a bumper sticker slogan that way oversimplifies any of the truths that need to be discussed by sane, rational people on both sides.

4. If you're stuck on the argument that "when Cain killed Abel, God didn't blame the rock or ban all rocks" you're just being childish. To reference another meme, if my child hits someone with a rock, I don't blame the rock, but I do take the rock away from him and work to make damn sure my kid doesn't get another one until he can be responsible around them. You're right, the weapon isn't the problem; ACCESS to the weapon is.

5. If you're stuck on the argument of "how will I protect myself and my family from terrorists" (yes, I've heard this one) then know this -- YOU WON'T. They're most likely better armed and organized than you and outnumber you. You're not Bruce Willis, and this isn't Die Hard.

6. If you're stuck on the argument that "guns aren't the problem; mental health is the problem," then you're right, but you need to take it further. What do we do to keep folks with mental health issues from having access to weapons? Are you willing to take the initiative and do without yours by choice (if you have such a child in your home or within your child's circle of friends) as a responsibly adult to achieve this, or do you value your gun ownership more than your children's lives? After all, the more we police ourselves, the less we have to make laws to police us in the long run.

I feel strongly that nothing will change until we stop passing the buck and have a serious discussion of common sense ideas around controlling who has access to lethal weapons and who doesn't, with people from both sides who value discussion rather than slogans and knee-jerk memes.

I know a lot of you, heck, maybe even most of you, will disagree with me on this, but this is what I believe about it. It's not some kind of liberal agenda. It's not a knee-jerk reaction to a news story. It's an ongoing need to do something to keep kids from getting access to weapons they can use to shoot up schools.

It gets down to values. Where do we place our children and the children of others on that list of things we value? Above guns? Below them? Above rights? Below them? Above our fears of losing our rights to a political agenda? Below them?

If your responses to any of these questions are just more political claptrap and not a willingness to actually discuss the issue without sloganeering and getting mad about people taking your guns, then I think we already know where the children rank on that list of values.

Like I said, I may lose some folks on this one. It's okay. I'm pushing the limit anyway, and it's easier to open the door and give people the option to leave than to push them out the door after they pitch a fit

#gun control #gun safety #gun responsibiity #responsibility for gun owners #firearms #second amendment

[cameron-carpet-lola]

Colt police positive in 38 S&W, very nice shooting

#responsible gun owners #guns #milsurp

[ihearthes]

“Everyone was scared and everything, and I told them to be quiet,” Gemma, 10, said. One of her classmates thought it might be a prank and laughed. Gemma said she had hushed her. They had done drills for this. She turned out the classroom lights, as she had been taught to do.

Terrified he would return to her classroom, Miah said, she took the blood of a classmate who fell dead and rubbed it all over herself. Then she played dead herself.

These quotes, from children in Uvalde, is part of what’s wrong with the USA today. They knew what to do because they had done drills for it.

We all do them now. It’s “normal”. In what world is it “normal” to prepare for a gunman who wants to hurt you? I ask you, in what job other than education and law enforcement are adults trained in how to respond to an active shooter? In what other environment do we train children what to do? And in the case of Uvalde, what the fuck were the police thinking to allow that gunman to keep shooting while they stood outside and listened? They waited for shields to protect them from the shooter while inside kids had nothing but the blood of their classmates to protect them.

There are only two groups regularly trained in how to respond to an active shooter. Why were the kids the ones who knew what to do?

One time, prepandemic, some students in the elementary school where I work got hold of a cell phone. They called 911 and reported that someone was shot in the building as a prank. The entirety of the city’s police department (and I mean every vehicle and officer) was there in less than 2 minutes, had the school surrounded and were already breaching the building. At the time, it was scary as hell to see so many officers invading our space.

Now I’m reassured that at least my local police department won’t wait should a school shooting ever happen here.

Cause kids shouldn’t be the only ones who know how to react to an active shooter.

#a musing #a rant #sorry #that sentence in the article pierced my soul #of course I live and work in the town where a man shot up a movie theater while people were watching the premiere of Batman #and just across the town from Columbine HS where they STILL feel the effects of the shooting #did you know that Columbine HS never has school on April 19 anymore? #this country is so fucked up #and we’ve got a former president and multiple lawmakers #claiming that ‘responsible gun owners’ shouldn’t be held responsible #or have to give up their guns #fine — but what are you doing to protect our KIDS?!?!?! #from irresponsible people who obtain. weapons?

[technoturian]

Wait, so Nancy is like, “There’s a child in the house, I know where my guns are. They’re in an unsecured shoebox in my closet, with all of my cool grown-up girl clothes, where my baby sister would never go and look around!”

#Stranger Things #Nancy Wheeler #Stranger Things Spoilers #there was an attempt to look like a responsible gun owner

[nirivenova]

In case yall need a reminder that your company's "we care" messaging is lies...

There is no effective active shooter plan at my place of work.

A ginormous mile long concrete warehouse on a piece of land that once grew things.

There's prison turnstiles and metal detectors for anyone leaving to make sure employees aren't stealing. But nothing stopping an angry dildo from walking in with a firearm.

#eat the 1% #eat the rich #fuck billionaires #dont have kids #as a responsible gun owner i disapprove