Gun Etiquette

forget about the penis build your own gun!

could you make a gun out of pennies

or a gun that shoots pennies

what happens if you threw a gun that shot pennies off the empire state building and then in midair the gun shot a penny at the ground

would anybody die

yeah, did he say why he was in the guy's house?

"oh shit my guitar's out hope that's ok"

this was an unscheduled thing

ok I broke into his house

if you just show up to a guy's house, it's his house, so what.

if he's having people over it's a little odd. there's gradations obv. "sure stop by, i'm just doing some stuff around the house (incl. cleaning my guns)"

if this person is the type to sit around watching tv with a pistol in his hand, that's a little tony montana/john milius i guess, but it doesn't sound like that.

xps

I'm related to a lot of enthusiastic gun owners and outside of hunting season when there are bound to be rifles propped up around the house (assuming no kids around - I am also related to staunch gun safety advocates), I would find it surprising if my relatives had their guns out laying around in the living room.

^^ yeah. My parents babysit my niece now, and Dad has gotten (rightly) paranoid about a newly mobile two-year-old poking under beds and in closets, so every gun is locked in a cabinet and each gun has a trigger lock.

What if he builds his own guns with precious metals and he's polishing them while watching the Planet Earth series.

what if your neighbor has a pool and you can't swim.

ok so after he said that he would put the guns away if I was uncomfortable around them, and after I just was kind of like "give me a minute to think about the concept of guns" we both just kind of sat there quietly, watching king of queens, and he looked at me after a minute and was like, "this is something people with guns should do right, offer to put them away? I dont really know how this all is supposed to work, I grew up around guns, but I would assume that someone might this this was weird" and, because I was really stoned and kind of afraid and wanted to stop talking about the guns, to stoned to talk even really, I was like oh no it's ok I still have to think, and then he turned back to king of queens and after a minute he was like "man I don't even know what's going on in this episode" and I was like "yeah I know right"

and someone else in the room was like "yeah me too, and I've been paying attention"

sounds like you lived a chapter in a DeLillo novel.

why were you afraid?

that's kind of why i wanted to know about etiquette from people around the us, because the whole situation was kind of up in the air for both of us

i think i object more to the nexus of thc, kevin james and leah rimini than to unsafe firearms

is this guy scary?

I was afraid because I've never been around guns and suddenly I had to think of them, also because of how surprising the situation was to me, like someone said the word gun and all of a sudden there's a gun in front of me that I never realized was there

I don't understand the pool comment, is that guy posting in the wrong thread.

this guy was super nice not scary at all, it was the first time I met him, but he was like one of those kinds of people I got on with immediately

were you at the house of a gun magician

wow did they work for state farm?

Shaking my head at the USA right now. And you guys lol at us Brits.

you gave us benny hill. i thought we were supposed to lol at you brits.

FWIW, I'm really comfortable around guns but I'm pretty nervous around guns that I haven't checked to be unloaded myself. People are stupid, shit happens. I strongly dislike people handing me guns without dropping the magazine and clearing the chamber (or similar action for non-semiautos).

I'm single and the only things I own of value are guns and cameras, so I don't keep a loaded gun in my house, ever.

HAY GUYZ, I went round to my friend's house and he had his bottle of arsenic out on the table - would you be comfortable with that?

HAY GUYZ, I went round to my friend's house and he had a rabid dog chained to his sofa - would you be comfortable with that?

HEY GUYZ, I went round to my friend's house and he tied me to an altar while a sharpened pendulum descended towards my body - would you be comfortable with that?

^^^^^
people who are like this about inanimate objects are weirder to me than gun nuts.

I don't understand the pool comment, is that guy posting in the wrong thread.

I think he's being existential about guns as objects and pointing out that, if you can't swim, pools might freak you out, which is frankly, why so many pools have protective gates or pool covers these days.

I have a question, could you use a gun to crack a nut open

I mean, by like shooting it

not using the butt of the gun

Milo, would you really be comfortable with a guy who had a table full of poisons in his living room? They're just inanimate objects, you know.

someone should make "gun nuts", like truck nuts

and this "loaded" thread goes off in 3, 2

I strongly dislike people handing me guns without dropping the magazine and clearing the chamber (or similar action for non-semiautos).

This^^^

I'm really not going to get into a guns good or bad debate anymore 'cause in the US at least, they aren't going anywhere anytime soon but ppl who are crazy for guns and are not super gun-safety advocates are disgusting savages imho and they actually actively piss me off to the point where I refuse to be around them.

just want it to be known that I asked the question to get some, like, realistic responses,and I feel like I did, so thank you

he should keep his gun under the sink with all the other poisons.

could you make a gun with one barrel but like five triggers, so that you could put your hand on it but you wouldn't be burdened to just using your index finger to shoot it, you could squeeze your pinky, or your thumb, depending on how you were feeling that day, the weather outside

i just replaced in my google field "Joseph P. Kennedy III" with "gun with five triggers".

Yeah and it's cool that you both had a real dialogue about this (albeit a stoned one somehwat contaminated by King of Queens) instead staking positions or getting weird about it. I bet you could ask him in future not leave his guns out and he'd be cool. Conversely, if you're cool w/them, he gets to have them out as is his wont.

You really can't deny the seductiveness of guns and if you ever want to check his out make sure that he can demonstrate that they're not loaded and, regardless, never put you finger in the trigger or point it anywhere but the floor.

Hey emily, I went to this guy's house and he had a tablesaw lying around. Give me a fucking break.

There are (or used to be) lots of double trigger shotguns iIrc.

I went to this guy's house and he had a car.

when people come over I tell them to be careful of the chainsaw I keep on my table, continuously running, filling the house with exhaust

how normal is it to keep a chainsaw on the table? I dunno, seems pretty normal to me, I grew up with them, my daddy was a chainsaw

I'm not aware of any hobbies involving a wide variety poisons, so yes, I'd view that quite differently from guns. Or knives, or swords or any number of other dangerous things. Because guns and poisons aren't analogous.

An unloaded gun can't do anything to you - is there such a thing as 'unloaded arsenic,' Emily?

Milo, would you really be comfortable with a guy who had a table full of poisons in his living room? They're just inanimate objects, you know.

― Illia Rump (emil.y), Thursday, December 1, 2011 6:39 PM (7 minutes ago)

guns have multiple functions, poisons only have oh fuck me are we really going to do this again

I'm not aware of any hobbies involving a wide variety poisons

taxidermy
or
housekeeping

I was taught that a gun is always loaded – i.e. don't lay it casually on tables or point it at anybody even if the magazine is empty.

I did grow up with dangerous power tools laying around on the reg.

Of course, both my parents smoking until I was 16 was infinitely more dangerous than the guns or saws.