re: People are way too afraid of guns these days

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I am amazed at the level of estrogen in this thread. Glad my baws know how to handle their booze and guns together.

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frickin aye. Throw in some tannerite as well

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This is why I've held off on commenting. Pulling guns out in front of a close group of friends is one thing, doing it with casual acquaintances is something else entirely. OP hasn't really clarified how well these people know each other so I'm withholding judgement.

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This is a good point, and I agree I should've expounded further on this.

Yes, this group knows each other well. There were probably a couple of newer faces in the group, but for the most part everyone has known each other for years. On top of that, everyone knows the host is a firearms enthusiast and competition shooter.

As for why he has his gun safe in the living room, yes it's a small house.

As for the self righteous guy trying to bust me for having guns out at a "house party," those are your words, not mine. This wasn't a "house party" any more than having a group of friends over for a Sunday BBQ is a "house party." As I already mentioned multiple times, we had just arrived at the host's house from dinner. Probably the "drunkest" person in the group was the birthday girl (one of the only folks who didn't flip her shite BTW) and she could have been described as tipsy at worst. I don't think a single drink had even been poured by the time we had opened the gun safe.

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I grew up in N Louisiana, everyone I knew had guns out in the open in their homes.

Guns are fine it's idiots with them that's the problem.

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Yeah, like idiots in N Louisiana who leave their guns out in the open.

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Age range of group is about 26-30

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There's your problem. Your generation cut their teeth on being pussies.

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Read the first sentence in the original post Gump...

Good Lord...

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I don't know if the 3 guys looking at guns weren't the three drivers that drove everyone back home. I also don't know if all 9 other people were outraged.

I mentioned this on here before, but I had a neighbor on each side of my home, when I was in my preteens/teenage years who were both shot. In both cases, the gun "wasn't" loaded.

One, the girl shot herself. Long story short, some guys kept calling her house telling them they were coming over to get her. She had just graduated high school and her parents were on vacation. She went grab her dad's gun, which she knew how to shoot, but for whatever reason thought it was unloaded, she was just going to scare the guys. She had a friend with her and she told the girl "what I am going to shoot myself". Cock, click... boom. My dad & I were outside, first ones to see her hanging off the side of the recliner lifeless with blood pouring out of her head.

The second one, was a few years later, the guy was my friend. It happened on a 4th of July. He was at another guy's house laying on the bed reading a magazine. The guy whose house he was out pulled a shot gun out of the closet, aimed it at my friend. They told him to chill out, dude laughed and said "it aint event loaded" raised it up again & pointed it at my friend, pulled trigger & bam. If my friend wasn't resting his head on his hand, it would have killed him, but his wrist took a lot of the impact. He still had to stay in the hospital for while, they had to do several surgeries on his face, he had to regain muscle in his wrist, etc.

In high school, I knew a several other people who were killed by a gunshot. In most cases it was due to misuse of a gun. You always here "I don't understand, they knew how to use a gun". I am not scared of guns, I am scared of people when they have guns.

Wow 12 people drove 12 cars to this dudes house. Crazy.

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Wow 12 people drove 12 cars to this dudes house. Crazy.

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Let it go - stop with the semantics. You get the gist of it, don't you (rhetorical)...

The outrageous part of this story is the fact that grown men and "gun aficionados" or whatever you called yourselves even took the time to examine a Remington 700 and a pawn shop AK.

Trash gonna trash tho I suppose....

I know. They won't even let them into the repub convention. True story