Hey NRA nasties... this is what those with rational, thinking skills think

[boston bean]

You = NRA nasties
Other = thinking, rational people

You: I need a gun for protection.
Others: protect you from who/what?
You: from all the crazies we allow to purchase guns.
Others: WTF???

[hack89]

1. Good thing I don't own guns for self protection. nt

[boston bean]

3. You own them to collect them or shoot at paper targets?

[hack89]

4. Competitive target shooting. nt

[boston bean]

5. And what does target shooting have to do with the 2nd amendment?

You think target shooting is constitutionally protected and that was the spirit of the 2nd amendment?

[hack89]

6. The 2A protects an individual right to keep and bear arms.

It says nothing about how I have use them. Read the Democratic Party platform if you are confused.

[boston bean]

7. I'm not confused about it at all. There is no constitutional right to target shoot.

Is your target shooting so important that everyone ought to have a gun?

That society should revert back to the wild west, where all justice was meted out by who had the quicker draw. Where human life meant less.

[hack89]

9. There is a constitutional right to own guns. Period.

The 2A allows strict regulation but the individual right to own guns is a legal fact you need to recognize.

My target shooting does not mean everyone has to have a gun. It is an individual choice.

[boston bean]

12. Your wanting to own guns so you can target shoot, is not covered by the 2nd amendment.

Although, it's been twisted beyond recognition (I will give you that), and is what makes our gun culture so sick.

[hack89]

13. So what is covered by the 2A? nt

[boston bean]

14. To own gun as a member of a state militia.

However, it has been twisted beyond recognition, and many people like yourself believe as I have stated in the OP that everyone gets to own one.

[hack89]

17. When has there never been private ownership of guns in America?

Americans have owned guns for ever, even in the absence of militias. You are ignoring a lot of history.

[boston bean]

18. Like the wild west when people meted out their own justice.

I am not the one ignoring history here.

[GGJohn]

19. Sure you are.

There has been no time in American history where private ownership of firearms was banned.

[hack89]

20. No - I mean in every part of America for its entire history

can you show where state governments took away peoples guns because there was no militia to serve in?

[pintobean]

8. This is what passes for rational thinking skills?

God help us.

[dairydog91]

10. It's not about actual rationality, it's about signalling.

[TipTok]

11. Please keep doing exactly what you are doing...

The pro 2A crowd appreciates your efforts...

[Brickbat]

15. Well, that's convincing.

[Bonx]

22. Yep. Not sure what I'll do with all this newly acquired free time.

[ileus]

16. Everyone knows all crimes are committed with gunz.

[Buzz Clik]

21. As ridiculous as the OP might be, she never said that.

[Lizzie Poppet]

23. You're badly off-target (s.w.i.d.t?) about what the protection is for.

It's not about protecting ourselves from "all the crazies we allow to purchase guns." The "nutcase who was able to legally buy a gun" is statistically not worth worrying about, unless you also worry a lot about being struck by lightning, etc. Defensive firearms are large;ly intended to be used against run-of-the-mill street criminals, who actually pose a statistically significant threat (albeit still not an enormous one). Those people aren't "allowed" to purchase guns, by law...

The #1 priority in additional gun regulation should be slowing the flow of handguns to felons and other prohibited persons (and people contemplating suicide). Instead we obsess about military-looking semiautomatic rifles...when rifles of all types are used in about 500 homicides per year and almost no suicides. It's insane...

[GGJohn]

24. Well, this is 2 minutes of my life I'll never get back.