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View Poll Results: Do You Regularly Carry A Firearm?
Yes 47 29.94%
No 110 70.06%
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Perhaps you could point out an example of this "tough guy" talk...

Oh, I don't know, maybe start with every one of your overly-confrontational posts & go from there.

Again, I just lifted this from the "Officials Deliberately Killed Children Thread" (your words):

Hold your breath while I try to care.

Oooh, how tough!
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Nobody was talking tough. You're interpreting it that way..

By the way - Shrek is merely an animated cartoon character. Sigmund Freud said that fear of weapons was a sign of sexual immaturity and insecurity. Guess who's psychological analysis I give more weight to?
Saw a movie once where a guy quoted Sigmund Freud: Guys who play with guns got small dicks! I dont know weather he have actually said that or not?
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So if someone on the street calls you a lot of bad things without reason, then you will just walk away with your head down?
I would, even unarmed. Verbal disagreements need not escalate to physical settlements.
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I would, even unarmed. Verbal disagreements need not escalate to physical settlements.
I agree, but it depends on how childish one are.
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So if someone on the street calls you a lot of bad things without reason, then you will just walk away with your head down?
Yup - I am not going to put myself in a position where I might have to kill someone over a confrontation over some idiotic words.

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Oh, I don't know, maybe start with every one of your overly-confrontational posts & go from there.

Again, I just lifted this from the "Officials Deliberately Killed Children Thread" (your words):

Hold your breath while I try to care.

Oooh, how tough!
And you might have made a point if that had anything, at all, to do with guns or gun ownership...
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Yup - I am not going to put myself in a position where I might have to kill someone over a confrontation over some idiotic words.

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While you wouldn't if you weren't packing? If so, let me warn you that frustration can cause extreme reactions in the most patient of men.
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While you wouldn't if you weren't packing? If so, let me warn you that frustration can cause extreme reactions in the most patient of men.
Of course it can, but if words always led to gunfire, you'd be seeing a LOT more deaths in the US than you do.

The argument that mere words would lead to gunfights has been used to attempt to derail relaxed CCW restrictions every time they've come up, and every single time that argument has been shown false in real life.

Normal, stable, people dont kill each other over mere verbal confrontations my friend.
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Of course it can, but if words always led to gunfire, you'd be seeing a LOT more deaths in the US than you do.

The argument that mere words would lead to gunfights has been used to attempt to derail relaxed CCW restrictions every time they've come up, and every single time that argument has been shown false in real life.

Normal, stable, people dont kill each other over mere verbal confrontations my friend.
Well, I don't know. I think normal, stable people will do anything under the right conditions.
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Well, I don't know. I think normal, stable people will do anything under the right conditions.
Perhaps, but like i said, normal, stable people do not kill others over mere name-calling.

If you believe you're right, im sure you could point out how there have been thousands or at least dozens of these incidents since the majority of the US has extremely relaxed concealed carry laws...
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Wasn't Florida supposed to be the "OK corral" when they eliminated the silly requirement that you had to turn your back on an assailant and try to flee before you had legal justification for lethal force?
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Perhaps, but like i said, normal, stable people do not kill others over mere name-calling.

If you believe you're right, im sure you could point out how there have been thousands or at least dozens of these incidents since the majority of the US has extremely relaxed concealed carry laws...
Speaking of that - I would appreciate if anyone can tell me if the guy who shot a little boy dead on the sidewalk because he egged his car had a carry permit?
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I did some research and found out that Virginia apparently allows NFA32 firearms and automatics are allowed if registered with the police. So I could get something like this...
I didnt thought that ordinary people were allowed to purchase shotguns with a barrel shorter than 18 inches.
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Speaking of that - I would appreciate if anyone can tell me if the guy who shot a little boy dead on the sidewalk because he egged his car had a carry permit?
Really? What a piece of shit. Some bystander should have shot him.
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I find that when I am armed, I am ever more polite and less likely to let minor things annoy me.

I am very conscious that I am carrying a lethal implement, and take pains to ensure that I avoid situations that could escalate to a confrontation.

Not that I don't avoid those things when unarmed, but even more so when armed.

Matt
Makes you polite doesn't it ?

The way people act today, I sometimes wonder if this might not make us all a bit more civil.

Christ, people are assholes these days.
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