The North American Man-Gun Love Association (NAMGLA)
The golden age of gunsby John Hazlehurst
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Consider the most desirable cars of the '50s, '60s and '70s. They were fast, seductively beautiful and dangerous to drivers, passengers, other vehicles and anyone who happened to get in the way. They handled badly in most conditions, were often grossly overpowered, prone to roll over, and not loaded down with sissy equipment like seat belts, airbags and rollbars. In a collision, you'd sail through the windshield or the engine would end up on your lap — either way, you were a statistic.
But they were sooo beautiful! Imagine yourself in a 1958 Chevy Impala convertible, top down on a summer day. That's life as it should be ... unlike our miserable daily commutes in one of today's safe and dreary sedans. That's why a '58 Impala convertible costs $300,000 today, or 150 times as much as it cost new. Love knows no boundaries.
High gas prices, foreign competition, a long recession and government regulations doomed the fleet-footed behemoths of mid-century America. We traded dysfunctional beauty for safety and reliability, and likely saved hundreds of thousands of Americans from untimely deaths.
Now we're in the golden age of firearms. Modern sporting rifles, most based on the Vietnam-era M-16, are the stuff of dreams: light, accurate, reliable, perfectly balanced, and loaded with testosterone. Guys buy them for the same reason guys bought L-88 Corvettes, GT-500 Mustangs, or Plymouth Superbirds — they're dangerous, beautiful and cool as shit.
And gun fatalities remain stuck at around 30,000 annually.
The NRA? It's the lineal descendant of the NHRA, the National Hot Rod Association. The organization ought to abandon its specious Second Amendment shtick and rename itself the North American Man-Gun Love Association. Most of us can't afford a '58 Impala, but we can buy a Bushmaster — an artifact to treasure and love, a bargain-priced substitute for a vintage Corvette....
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Probably a breath of fresh air in Colorado Springs. 
...and got righteously smacked down.
Which was surprising to no one but the gun nuts among you.
...who someday might use their guns for self-defense.
I want to protect the 30K+ who are actually victimized.
And yet you claim my efforts defy logic. 
My first post. I was just reading through that and the 30,000 number seemed WAY off from what I recalled so I looked it up. To answer your question I'm replying to whom ever will read it. No offense meant to anyone, ...in particular.
are victims of their own choice (suicide)? also how many of those suicide deaths were committed with AR type rifles? With ~400 deaths by rifles of all types I'd guess it's pretty low. 
I'm sorry, can you say the rest of your paragraph again? Because we were all still laughing at that part and might've missed the rest. 
"it's not the 18th century anymore..."
and ftr, this is an Aveo:
and this is a Corvette:
But not very different from a lot of products marketed toward me.
Have you seen the latest Diet Dr. Pepper ad campaign? Also a silly joke.
Truly excellent!
You can tell it touches a nerve - the prosthetic penis club is here in this thread wailing.
...squealing about how this spot-on OP hurts their tender little feelings. 
with the blood of hundreds of thousands of American on their hands in service of their filthy agenda, that we are quite justified in calling things what they are, just as you say.
for it. A generation from now the "RKBA enthusiast" cause will be as roundly mocked as those pictures of racists "blocking the schoolhouse door" in the Jim Crow South of the '50s & '60s.
And that's just how it will be, as MLK put it, as the "arc of history bends towards justice." Your "cause" and NRA agenda is already obsolete, sport, and you don't even know it.
about it.
"In fact, you lot are worse than the NRA"
This country is turning Blue. Better get used to it.
"Here's a first step: Require that all assault weapons be chartreuse or pink, and that they be named after really bad cars: the Citation, the Pacer, the Vega and, worst of all, the Yugo! So not cool ..."
