sipowicz
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I sometimes visit ugly guy forums just to gloat.
I get aggravated by some of the cults that are front page pro 2nd. They are not gun people, they are people with guns. You Tube is full of these jerks.
The crowd that wants to make an issue of going in a store dressed like a commando, armed to the teeth..because it’s legal. Then when concerned citizens who are scared, call cops the idiots delight in “ educating “ cops on the open carry law.
Then there is the crowd that talks about nothing but shooting people. They can’t wait to confront someone with a gun. Obsessed with special bullets and all manner of EDC stuff. NORAD can pick them up on radar.
Then preppers that talk about ranging around, clearing dwellings to look for food and supplies. Thousands of rounds of ammo, truck load of TP in there forted up house. They will be targets themselves.
You know about a year or so back I was looking to buy an AR. I made the statement that I had no use for one. I don’t, but I have a Fire Extinguisher that I have no use for either. Unless there is a fire. Some idiots took personnel offense over that. Prime example of people I don’t want to represent me in the 2nd issues. If I look at these people as idiots, I’m sure the general public does as well. It’s a shame we have to protect these idiots but we must not split forces on these issues.
I don't think that anybody likes those guys, they give otherwise peaceful, law-abiding citizens who choose to exercise their right to bear arms and carry a firearm for self-defense a bad name by creating the illusion that all folks who carry firearms are warmongering wack-jobs with their unnecessarily aggressive, in-your-face attitude towards upholding the Second Amendment.
Meanwhile, the vast majority of folks who carry firearms do so in an otherwise inconspicuous, concealed method, so the average person never even knows just how many folks amongst them are just minding their own business living life like everybody else, and only sees the nutty guy marching around in tactical gear looking like he's got bad intent.
Unfortunately, they're too far gone to realize just how insane they appear to those around them, or otherwise just don't care because they think that they're somehow standing up for the Second Amendment by dressing up like they're about to march into battle and freaking everyone out in the process.
I did something stupid like that during the end of the pandemic. I was all fired up because I had caught COVID-19 in spite of wearing a mask because someone coughed all over me in a checkout line, and I was fed up with having to wear masks everywhere which I already knew from experience didn't actually provide any meaningful protection against the virus, so I wore a gas mask in public a couple times thinking that I was totally going to make a statement that way, but all I really did was make myself look like a lunatic. It's so embarrassing.
On another forum, the topic of open carry was being discussed. One guy on there sad he was stopped by the police for riding his motorcycle with his AK slung over his back and a molle vest full of mags. He said it was perfectly legal. I commented how stupid it is and I got an avalanche of “FUDD!” And “traitor the the cause” comments.
Those idiots are in the minority, but their actions speak the loudest, and like it or not, they do paint all gun owners as gun nuts.
That type of action only attracts negative attention and ends up losing us support among many who we should be keeping on our side.
I know. That’s why they do it. They want the attention. I saw a guy last year with a large Glock in a tactical thigh high rig at a gas station. His license plate read “OPN CRRY”.
If anyone remembers the old movie It's a wonderful life with Jimmy Stewart. There's a quote where the angel says “Every time you hear a bell ring, it means that some angel’s just got his wings.”
Having been in management at a gun store/range I can't help but think of that.
By that I mean each time I hear leftist liberals and politicians speak out against the 2nd Amendment and talk about gun control it means yet another law abiding citizen buys their first gun.
I've witnessed this first hand, and helped people from all races/ethnicities, both male and female.
If only these trolls could understand that criminals get their guns illegally in the first place.
There's been a rash of car jackings in our city lately, most of which have been punks under the age of 16. Criminals do not follow laws and surely won't abide by any stupid gun control law.
You know, that actually might explain why nearly every thread on this subforum gets immediately one-starred.
I've always just assumed that the subforum was filled with people who would impulsively one-star threads based on so much as a single sentence that they don't 100% agree with, but you might actually be onto something there.
It would make an awful lot of sense if threads here were so consistently rated poorly by Gun Control Advocates who simply disapprove of any discussion in regards to self-defense.
In addition, that would explain why every thread on the 2A Subforum which reports some form of victory is consistently rated one-star.