cnn poll Assault Weapons Bill - vote

It is funny that this kind of thread came up today. I was thinking this morning when getting this ready to work on the wife's shop, they always want to ban some other thing that they think is bad for the population. I looked around my little shop and thought, "It sure wouldn't do for them to ban any weapons for me" There are so lmany things in there to use for a weapon and if all else fails I have the equipment to make some kind of weapon.

I don't know why MAD don't try to outlaw cars though. Even the sober drivers kill more peope than guns ever have. Yea there are a lot of sober people that don't drive very good at all.:D
 
"Teddy Kennedy's car has killed more people than my guns!" Remember that bumpersticker, Pappy?

And another Mark Twain quote to help you understand Nevada: "Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting over!"

I remember one trip I took to Missoula, Montana ( actually Hamilton ), and how incensed I was to see farms running theif sprinklers in the middle of a rainstorm. The folks up there just laughed at me when I told them that would be considered obscene or next to pornograhic waste of precious water resources down in Nevada.
Not only did they find it hilarious, by the time I left, half of Hamilton had heard about "that Nevadan's" aghast reaction and shock over the moral turpitude of their water wasting.

Now back to the topic, whatever it is.
 
Originally posted by munk
I would like to know how private industry came to insist upon shipping handguns next day air or nothing.That has hurt a lot of gunsmiths.

I have some animosity for UPS.
munk
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The stategy is to make guns and ammo too expensive for the average citizen. Pile on the taxes, shipping costs, gun liability lawsuit costs, ad nauseum. Guns may be legal but no one will be able to afford one or the ammo to shoot in it. A pretty effective stategy.
 
Originally posted by Pappy
........they always want to ban some other thing that they think is bad for the population. I looked around my little shop and thought, "It sure wouldn't do for them to ban any weapons for me"

There are so lmany things in there to use for a weapon and if all else fails I have the equipment to make some kind of weapon.
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Remember when everyone thought a real badass carried a single shot "Zip" gun made from a piece of tubing, a nail and a strong rubber band, usually a .22 calibre?
They would kill anyone just as dead as an UZI.
Now it's the full auto that everyone thinks is commonplace. The result is more innocent or not so innocent bystanders are killed or wounded.:rolleyes:
And as things have always been and continue to be, the badass doesn't give a sh!t.

Semp posted:
Guns may be legal but no one will be able to afford one or the ammo to shoot in it. A pretty effective stategy.
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A good reason for buying one of the repros of the 1800's cap and ball percussion pistols.:)
 
Rusty, the sprinklers in Palm Springs are the ones that make your point. My imagined bumper sticker for your State: Nevada; just add water.

I thought of this long ago after driving through. The Carson Sink really is the worst. It beats out Trona, California for desolation.

Pappy- I like the irony of 100,000 dead through medical malpractise every year. Yet the AMA is against guns.

On the gun kill stats we must be careful. Some of them include justifiable homocide. Some include suicide. And we'll never be able to accurately figure out how many times scum bag 'A' kills scum bag 'B'.


munk
 
Munk,
So you've been to Trona? Boy I thought that place was the end. Then I got stationed at Minot AFB, ND. Oh boy!!!:barf: . Don't wish that on anybody. I kinda liked the desert. Remember living in the high desert at George AFB, and the ban on .22s that San Bernardino County had. Weird place California. In our "born again Christian society" its hard to believe that we have such little respect for human life. Gun bans do little to change our minds toward violence. Most of the antigun adovcates don't mind selling you gun violence on film. Do they? Many of the elite like Ted Kennedy can scream antigun and hide behind their armed bodyguards.
 
Minot,ND? Wasn't that the assignment that USED to have a tree near by?:rolleyes: Then hoghead showed up.....no more tree. :footinmou oops:D That guy has an awesome aim. Hits the target every time
 
hee ehee . That's why I'm still loved by me wife, I'd assume it was true for you folks as well:););)

You folks have fun, now.

Keith
 
Trona is beyond desert. Even the Creosote can't grow but about 10 feet apart. Man, that is no-good soil. Nearby, though, in the spring you have snake heaven.

I always got a kick out of the Trona school. Bare earth playground. I don't have to tell you Trona was famous for exporting Methamphetamine OD's to nearby Ward B.

The steel core bullet ban happened after some fools lit up the countryside during a dry summer.

munk
 
Munk, I never got past " the Carson sink IS ". And it's only some 20 odd miles from the Humboldt sink. It's the distance from life sustaining water to life sustaining water.
 
Why do people live in places like that except to get away from something. I know that Minot has very little problems with transients. Can't imagine why,,
Remember the time the furniture store burned in the middle of Feburary. The Fire Department responded and put the fire out. The store was located at the junction of Hwy 83 and Hwy2's service road. Major intersection becomes major glacier. Closed for weeks. I don't miss that place.
 
Rusty, my apologies if I've insulted a good thing- the Carson Sink. My experience with it is limited to some brief reading and driving by in the heat of summer. I got out and wandered a little. It is Great Basin and there wasn't much there. I've always seen it as a good example of desolation, but there are worse.

As for water, you know me well enough by now to know I miss the desert. Many of my old hippie friends moved north up the coast of California into Portland, Seatle and Vancouver. Too me, they were always too water rich to appreciate anything.

munk
 
No problem Munk. Just teasing a little.

Thank God I don't need to walk or even pedal a bike from the last drinkable water of the Humboldt to the first drinkable water from the Carson.

Like I said, I just never thought of it as being desolate. That it is, true, but compared to the surroundings you can drive past it and not hardly notice much difference.
 
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