People like me.
I’m not saying I’d ever go out and buy a gun. I wouldn’t. I’m too cheap, for one thing.
But I’d sure as hell use one, if one were just lying around.
People and things I’d use a gun on, if one were just lying around:
- The person in the apartment building behind mine who has used his gas leaf blower every morning for the past week, beginning at 7 a.m.
- shithawks, any and all, particularly between the hours of 4am-7am.
- ravens, when they get on my nerves after a night when I’ve been unable to sleep because of #1 and #2
- Cheney, just on general principles. I mean, he hasn’t invaded Canada yet, but a gram of prevention is better than a kilo of cure, eh?
- the person or creature who invented beeping alarms for trucks backing up or doors opening or closing. And the person who made them mandatory. I’d shoot them in the legs, then the arms, then I’d stand there and watch them bleed out. It takes quite a long time, you know.
No reason I know that.
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As far as I can tell the best argument for gun control is the people who own them now!
I was enrolled in a uniformed service that required all personnel to prove proficiency with at minimum a long-barreled assault rifle. Some of the stuff I’ve seen on firing ranges convinced me that we don’t just need the registry, all $2 bn worth, but an actual competency exam.
You could start with basic math:
“Okay, so you have a nine-shot magazine full of rounds in a Glock automatic pistol. You’ve fired seven. What are the odds of injury if you cock and fire it preparatory to cleaning right now?”
I am not opposed to private ownership of weapons, even handguns. But consider the number of incompetent drivers we see every day–do you really want those people equipped with lethal weaponry?
Let’s cut the bullshit and make a weapons test a true test, with only the top 25%, say, permitted to qualify.
Better yet, let’s adopt the Chris Rock gun control policy: leave guns the same price, jack bullets up to $5000.
Competency tests? What about parenting…
Metro may have answered your question with a combined practical gun safety/parenting exam. Have them clean a loaded weapon and see who drops the magazine and works the slide first. Either they’re good parenting material or skilled sociopaths. The failures are just prey.
You can’t shoot Ravens, they are quite rare over here. By ‘shithawks’ do you mean pidgeons? You can shoot pidgeons, but why buy an air rifle? Pellets are much cheaper than bullets surely?
Ravens are nuisance birds here. If I shot into a tree, I’d likely hit three of them. And by shithawks I mean the huge, ugly, incredibly noisy seagulls that we have which start squawking at four in the morning every damn morning. I’d actually like to use exploding ammo on them, it would be quite fun.
exploding ammo, lol. I probably shouldn’t tell you this, but anyway … if you wrap up a load of bicarbonate of soda in bread and throw it to them it will have a similar effectin their stomach
Yes, an old trick. Around these parts they stuff it into small fish and throw them the fish.
I also heard of a bunch of kids in Campbell River who hooked the fish on a line, threw it to a seagull, and when the seagull tried to fly away they played it like a fish.
Although really, it sounds terrible but I’d estimate they have about the same brainpower as a carp.
I was pike fishing once on the Thames when the float disappearred and the line started flying of my reel. A damn seagull had taken my livebait, I didn’t manage to hook it though. some fisheries managers ‘fish’ for Cormorants with rod and line and drown them
Ew! Cormorants are pretty birds. If there aren’t enough fish to go around, the fisheries managers are not doing their job properly.
Did you see the Youtube video of a guy who hooked a tarpon, but then a shark attacked the tarpon! Very cool but gruesome stuff.
A childhood acquaintance of mine was a budding sadist -he’d tie hooks at either end of 10 feet of 20-lb test line, bait both ends and toss the rig bolo-style into a flock to enjoy the formation flying.
My god, you are doing NOTHING to counter my anti-American bias!