The Mess At Home

jpx7 said:
I just want you to be consistent in the application of your "cheap made easily obtainable" standard for the legality of things.
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So what did I say should be illegal or legal? I was simply stating that an AK is a cheap, and easily obtainable weapon. Nothing more, nothing less.

I guess if you look hard enough for a fight, you will find it anywhere.
 
50PoundHead said:
I have no problem with gun rights. People want to own guns, fine by me. Own a thousand if you want. But I agree with the basic sentiment of why would anyone believe that they might need an AK-47. That must be one helluva squirrel infestation.
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Tapate50 said:
AK is a cheap made easily obtainable weapon. For years people had them because it was enjoyable to shoot weapons of that ilk. It isn't accurate enough for squirrel hunting with much efficiency.
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Your post, an explicit response to 50's, is either (a) a fairly obvious justification for personal "AK47" ownership (the absurdity of which was the demonstrable subject of 50's post) or (b) a fairly obvious example of a total non-sequitur that adds (effectively) nothing to the conversation. I assumed – I think for fairly obvious reasons – that it was the former.
 
Did you know that Aks are cheap and pretty easily obtainable? If so, bully for you but since this board is so different than me and my upbringing I assumed most did not. I guess people see what they want to see and assume that is (effectively) "nothing to add". Like I said, it seems you were very anxious to make a point regardless.
 
Thanks for the info Tapate50. I had no idea AK-47's were cheap and readily available. I would have thought the opposite, but seeing I don't own a gun (but don't care if others do), I don't go out and price them a lot. I just know what I see in the Cabela's ads.

I think "they are fun to shoot" is all that good of a reason for ownership and I don't think I'm anti-fun. But again, if it's not illegal, I'm not going to bark about it. I'm just wondering about the utility of the weapon other than fun and possible mayhem.
 
50PoundHead said:
Thanks for the info Tapate50. I had no idea AK-47's were cheap and readily available. I would have thought the opposite, but seeing I don't own a gun (but don't care if others do), I don't go out and price them a lot. I just know what I see in the Cabela's ads.

I think "they are fun to shoot" is all that good of a reason for ownership and I don't think I'm anti-fun. But again, if it's not illegal, I'm not going to bark about it. I'm just wondering about the utility of the weapon other than fun and possible mayhem.
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Wondering the merits of such is not crazy. In Ga, you don't have to have a bill of sale if purchased from another owner, but I'd bet some good money it was stolen . They usually are.
 
Tapate50 said:
Did you know that Aks are cheap and pretty easily obtainable?
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I honestly did assume most people were aware of that fact — but maybe that's a result of my having grown up in northwest Florida, where people love the hell out of their guns.
 
I've got to arch an eyebrow at the guy who suggests that free and easy purchase of assault rifles is a freedom that shouldn't be limited also saying "criminals will just find a way."
 
"He's a hurting soul, and so if there's any kind of way I can help him and allow him to get on the right path – we all go through something," she said during the interview.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/23/michael-brandon-hill-georgia_n_3803437.html

Yeah --- the weapon is a major issue but it seems hearing of people with firearms threatening schools seems to be confined to the USA'
Wonder why that is?

Why do our people hurt this way - this is twice in a little over 6 months
 
world is filled with mentally ill people - but it seems the only place in the world armed mentally ill people go into schools and threaten lives is USA .

guns and race aside
Why / how do we deserve that distinction?
 
Tapate50 said:
arch away, but toward whom?
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Anyone who suggests letting Chip Caray walk into a house that had lines of cocaine laid out on every available surface, then throws up his hands and says "oh, well, drug addicts are going to find a way" when he discovers Chip in the house practicing his cold opens at 2.5X speed and humping the furniture.
 
Julio3000 said:
Anyone who suggests letting Chip Caray walk into a house that had lines of cocaine laid out on every available surface, then throws up his hands and says "oh, well, drug addicts are going to find a way" when he discovers Chip in the house practicing his cold opens at 2.5X speed and humping the furniture.
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Chip has ****ty parents.

But I haven't suggested that either
 
57Brave said:
world is filled with mentally ill people - but it seems the only place in the world armed mentally ill people go into schools and threaten lives is USA .

guns and race aside
Why / how do we deserve that distinction?
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We're the only place in the world with your brand of liberalism. thethe got it right. The culture sucks. You and your ilk are responsible! Deal with it.
 
The problem: easy access to guns.

The cause: liberals.

Yep. I'm interested to see the reasoning behind this one.
 
In fairness Julio mental illness is too a huge part of the problem.
However, the people that yell the loudest about gun rights trip over themselves to defund metal health care assistance / diagnosis

Those are surface issues though that most everyone can agree on. What are the underlying issues of our society that makes one go shoot up a Shiite Temple or hole up in a grade school armed to the teeth?? Or even go back a generation -- lynch another human or go back further commit genocide on Native Americans.

Seems like a pattern --- when / how do we break that pattern?
Why are these even options?
 
The targeting of schools has got to be one of the most troubling developments of the issue. In the past, it must have been unimaginable to target children in such a manner. What changed? Have we evolved to being so senseless to target children in this sort delusions?
 
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