Gun Etiquette

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?

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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.

What if he was a metallurgist for christ's sake.

(the arsenic man, obvs.)

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

bar hopping?

sometimes i just leave my black belt out there, on the table

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

― M. White, Thursday, December 1, 2011 1:46 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

Cars scare the shit out of me.

what about babies – they bite and scream

could you make a gun that was also a car

like maybe tie a gun to a golf cart

i remember coming back from grandma's, curling up in the chamber of a gun and falling asleep.

Look, I get where the gun law advocates are coming from and where the enthusiasts are coming from but I really think that debate should go to one of those threads. I don't think webinar is going to convince his friends to get rid of guns and if he wants to befriend this guy and maybe hang out and watch daft sitcoms w/him, he wants to figure out the gun etiquette. Personally, I think it's a two-way street but he can probably determine what he thinks by starting a thread in his own head.

xp: oh, so this is you

Gun Etiquette

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could you make a gun that was also a car

http://www.thelittletinsoldier.com/catalog/images/GAS1%20Assyrian%20Chariot.jpg

Early version

If I could make my car into a gun, I would do so in a HEARTBEAT

cars are just guns w/ wheels

most cars I know of don't have triggers that start a combustion event that launches a projectile at a target; maybe I should reinvestigate American auto makers

guys guys guys guys guys

I just figured out what gun spelled backwards is

http://www.ohio.edu/people/urieli/stirling/engines/Alpha_Stirling.gif

most cars I know of don't have triggers that start a combustion event that launches a projectile at a target; maybe I should reinvestigate American auto makers

it's all a perspective thing

next gun etiquette question, and I guess both q's can still be answered by any knowledgeable person, is it impolite to stare at someone's gun, in fear or awe or whatever, if they are legally open carrying it in a public place

― good webinar (ha ha I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, December 1, 2011 4:37 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink