A Moment of Silence Please

[sirs]

I can work with that definition   

[Xavier_Onassis]

I can work with the definition that you are a species of gun nut. The more guns you put into circulation, the more dangerous a country this will be.

[sirs]

Making you an apparent species of word nut.  As such your egregiously flawed opinion on this matter is again, duly noted

[Plane]

When you buy a gun, you put another dangerous gun into the huge pool of weapons in this country, where they will be used in crimes, will kill people in accidents, and make this country more dangerous for everyone, including you.

The fewer guns are in circulation, the safer we all are from being shot.

Isn't the exact opposite of our experience in the last two decades?
Crime rates generally falling -coincident with record levels of gun ownership.

Imagine that I found a way to make all honest, law abideing and trustworthy persons turn in their guns, but didn't have a way to decrease the number of guns in the hands of the less honest, I think this sort of measure would decrease the guns in circulation more than 95% and increase public safety not at all.

I take the poi9nt Sirs makes diffrently. The crazy guy with a gun wants to make a massacre in Texas or in Norway or Scotland , he makes a beeline twards the gathering of the unarmed. 

[Plane]

Define a gun nut?

A gun nut is a whacko who packs iron on a leisurely weekend trip with friends up into mountains and pretends it has something to do with an amendment to the Constitution.


BSB

Are bear extinct in these mountains?

Or are Rabid animals so unlikly that the gun is totally without justifacation?

[Xavier_Onassis]

Someone who lives in a city or a suburb is very unlikely to be threatened by rabid wildlife. Lightning rods would be a better bet at keeping such people safe.

If I were hiking across Alaska or some other wilderness area, I think a gun would be useful. But I hardly think I would need a gun collection. One rifle, one pistol and one shotgun would clearly suffice. But pepper spray and a taser might also be effective.

[BSB]

"Are bear extinct in these mountains?"

Brown bear or black bear? I've done a lot of hiking in black bear country and never felt a need to carry a gun. Brown bear is a whole other thing and I would carry without question and urge any hiking partners to do the same. In fact I wouldn't hike with them if they weren't carrying something very powerful.

One of these would do it and not break your arm in as many places as a 454 casull.http://www.reedercustomguns.com/revolvers/images/455AEcolor.jpg


BSB

[Xavier_Onassis]

I am not an expert on bears. Bears that present no danger would require no protection against them.

I mentioned Alaska, specifically. There are ample numbers of dangerous bears in Alaska. I think everyone acknowledges this.

[Plane]

How about snakes?

Anyone that shoots a wild anaconda in Everglades park is doing a public service .

Brown bear are very scarce in the south and east.

Black bear are common in some places , but are less dangerous to people than feral dogs or hogs.

[Xavier_Onassis]

I agree that we do not need exotic snakes, especially huge ones, in this country. I am all for people eliminating them from everywhere except zoos.

I don't think that anacondas are a major threat to humans, but they eat beneficial species, and wreck the ecology.

Poisonous snakes are certainly a bigger threat than boas and anacondas.

One of my colleagues had a problem with some kids breaking into his home, so we cut out some pictures of dangerous snakes, boas and anacondas, and made posters that we put in his windows. Danger! Snakes! and put some issues of Reptiles magazine in sight through the windows.

There were no more break ins.