Gun Etiquette

I guess this all sounds more confusing than it needs to be but I'm trying to be too specific about it I guess, I wanted to make this all less about talking about people who don't post on the forum and more about talking about cultural mores, but then I remembered the whole king of queens thing and couldn't help posting about it

im trying not to be, that is

Open carry would be fun for one day, if you did it dressed like Steve McQueen in Bullitt (armpit holsters!), or some crazy Wild West getup.

I wonder if I could get legislation passed that would allow a free open carry handgun permit as long as the holder was dressed as Ulala from Space Channel 5

lol ok thanks.

this is why i avoid ppl i don't already know.

k3, are you against the use of guns for killing animals?

― rusty flathead screwdriver, Thursday, December 1, 2011 4:00 PM

sort of? i don't think just anybody should have the right to shoot a deer or a rabbit or something they're not going to eat themselves. bear in mind private ownership of any kinds of guns should be illegal - if hunting is necessary for food or population control or whatever the government could employ people to do this

hahahaha good luck with that

I gotta say, there are like a dozen reasons why you should secure your guns when you're not using them, but I think that unsecured firearms and intoxicants would be a situation I would excuse myself from or like, be upfront and ask the dude to stow them.

well yeah duh xp

Just to be clear population control is not an if thing wrt many game animals (looking at you insane amount of deer) but an absolute, thx to historical slaughter of predators.

Do not hunt myself, but that's just factual.

xps where's the fun in being rational -- talk about a gun car!

why the fuck should the government hire people to control the deer population instead of hunters doing it themselves?

that unsecured firearms and intoxicants

If nothing else, guns and weed would tend to make me paranoid

Also I think you could make a pretty dece argument for the positive eco aspects of people obtaining their meat from self-sustaining things like deer populations.

well it'd be hard for them to do it without guns, which they can't own

lol

xxp

bear in mind private ownership of any kinds of guns should be illegal

For better or for worse, that is something that will never happen in the US.

well it'd be hard for them to do it without guns,

http://www.google.com/search?q=deer%20archery%20kill%20shots&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&oe=utf8&safe=active&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=bu_XTrnFA6ipsALB5rXhDQ&biw=1016&bih=582&sei=ce_XTq-uHIzsggehzqmVDw

I feel like automatic crossbows fall under the "gun" umbrella

Pretty sure most of those are not 'automatic'

bear in mind private ownership of any kinds of guns should be illegal

For better or for worse, that is something that will never happen in the US.

― M. White, Thursday, December 1, 2011 4:19 PM (2 minutes ago)

not in our lifetimes for sure, sucks i know

sorry I just meant "crossbows"

I don't actually know anything about crossbows, or guns

Though I am glad Innocent II sucessfully banned the crossbow in 1139.

xpost

They're not crossbows either, actually

well excuuuuuuse me

k3v are you a veg/vegan

They're just super fancy modern bows like this:

http://www.huntingfishingsouthtexas.com/wp-content/uploads/28_18_orig.jpg

arrow cocked + ready amirite

I'm sorry, there's a bow in that picture?

itt: things that should be illegal

I think I have that exact bow.

D, I just figured more ppl would give that bow a good looking over

guys I think 'gun etiquette' doesn't really roll off the tongue; how about we say 'guntiquette' you know just so we can save some time

Hartford, Gunetiquette

"gun etiquette" and "guntiquette" are two decidedly different things

one is a set of agreed-upon social mores for dealing with firearms, and one is a set of agreed-upon social moress for dealing with a butt in the front

Have we come to frontbottom so soon?

k3v are you a veg/vegan

― dayo, Thursday, December 1, 2011 4:25 PM (2 minutes ago)

no - ftr i'm not opposed to eating meat on principle and i don't think killing animals for food is wrong, but i am morally opposed to factory farming. i am trying to reduce the amount of meat i eat but i was a picky eater when i was younger and it's a process - i hope to be a veg in a couple years or so

fyi they dont kill the animals with guns in factory farming

of course not, anyone with sense would go for the unarmed ones

Not a traditional Amazon, I see.

(many x-posts later)

k3vin this thread is about gun etiquette not gun control.

imo apologizing is good enough, dude wasn't expecting you as you said.

fyi they dont kill the animals with guns in factory farming

― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Thursday, December 1, 2011 4:34 PM (5 minutes ago)

no shit, dayo's question wasn't about guns

k3vin this thread is about gun etiquette not gun control.

imo apologizing is good enough, dude wasn't expecting you as you said.

― sleeve sandbox, Thursday, December 1, 2011 4:39 PM (55 seconds ago)

well it was kind of a silly thread and we couldn't resist a little trolling on the subject, it's been too long

k3vin this thread is about gun etiquette not gun control.

imo apologizing is good enough, dude wasn't expecting you as you said.

I keep seeing this as the proper thing to do after you've shot someone for dropping in.

But it's pretty hilarious to be opposed to hunting since that's a far more natural life for most of the animals involved than even sustainable grassfed beef or w/e.

My moralism wrt hunting tends to have more to do with the state of mind of the hunter than with the fact that he's hunting

I don't hunt, and I know too many people who just set up near a feeder - but otoh all of them eat the venison. Most even eat wild boar when they hunt that.

I love wild boar, too. I love game, basically.

so guys did you solve guns yet

Etiquette requires that you shake hands with a shotgun, bow for a pistol, kneel to a rifle, curtsy to a cannon, kowtow to a blunderbuss and bow and scrape to a machine gun.

The guns are at the left of the plate. People get confused about which to use first, but just work from outside in (left to right). There may be an oyster gun on the right but it's much smaller than the others and easy to tell apart.