Gun Etiquette

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I mean, by like shooting it

dayo, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:38 (twelve years ago) link

not using the butt of the gun

dayo, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:38 (twelve years ago) link

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, 1 December 2011 18:39 (twelve years ago) link

someone should make "gun nuts", like truck nuts

slandblox goole, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:39 (twelve years ago) link

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

nuhnuhnuh, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link

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.

M. White, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link

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

good webinar (ha ha I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link

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

elks thunder, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:42 (twelve years ago) link

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

dayo, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:43 (twelve years ago) link

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

elks thunder, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link

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.

M. White, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link

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

rusty flathead screwdriver, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link

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

M. White, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link

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

M. White, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link

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

dayo, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link

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 z, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link

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

PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link

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

taxidermy
or
housekeeping

n/a, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link

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.

Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link

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.

milo z, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link

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

rusty flathead screwdriver, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link

(the arsenic man, obvs.)

rusty flathead screwdriver, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link

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?

Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link

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

nuhnuhnuh, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link

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.

rusty flathead screwdriver, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:52 (twelve years ago) link

what about babies – they bite and scream

Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:53 (twelve years ago) link

could you make a gun that was also a car

dayo, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:53 (twelve years ago) link

like maybe tie a gun to a golf cart

dayo, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:53 (twelve years ago) link

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

elks thunder, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:54 (twelve years ago) link

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.

M. White, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link

xp: oh, so this is you

Gun Etiquette

rusty flathead screwdriver, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/214/447736065_5d92df34cf.jpg

Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 1 December 2011 18:57 (twelve years ago) link

could you make a gun that was also a car

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

Early version

M. White, Thursday, 1 December 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link

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

OH NOES, Thursday, 1 December 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link

cars are just guns w/ wheels

iatee, Thursday, 1 December 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link

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

OH NOES, Thursday, 1 December 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link

guys guys guys guys guys

I just figured out what gun spelled backwards is

good webinar (ha ha I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 1 December 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link

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

elks thunder, Thursday, 1 December 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link

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

iatee, Thursday, 1 December 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link

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

good webinar (ha ha I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 1 December 2011 19:06 (twelve years ago) link

it's probably slightly impolite but a bigger danger is being drawn into a conversation with that person about that gun.

slandblox goole, Thursday, 1 December 2011 19:07 (twelve years ago) link

they want you to stare

elks thunder, Thursday, 1 December 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link

goole OTM

OH NOES, Thursday, 1 December 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link

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

― OH NOES, Thursday, December 1, 2011 2:03 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

I can't tell if you're being serious or not. : )

rusty flathead screwdriver, Thursday, 1 December 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link

the open-carrying person might misinterpret your stare of fear or awe as a rmde "why are you an attention-seeking dick" stare, especially if (as seems highly probable) he is an attention-seeking dick

Brad C., Thursday, 1 December 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link

If I went to the house of someone I did not know and that person had guns out on the table I would feel very uncomfortable because I did not know that person or his/her gun safety habits or his/her homicidal inclinations. So to that end, it would seem reasonable to put your guests at ease by stowing the firearms with asking.

thejenny, Thursday, 1 December 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link

withOUT asking, I meant to say.

thejenny, Thursday, 1 December 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link

"Oh don't worry, the homicidal urges only really kick in on Tuesdays."

M. White, Thursday, 1 December 2011 20:45 (twelve years ago) link

Also I would be worried watching King of Queens would drive me to turn one of the guns on myself.

thejenny, Thursday, 1 December 2011 20:46 (twelve years ago) link

considering all of the CBS sitcoms of the past 10 years, you can go so much worse than King of Queens

yes I am looking at you, According to Jim and Yes, Dear

OH NOES, Thursday, 1 December 2011 20:47 (twelve years ago) link


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