I feel like automatic crossbows fall under the "gun" umbrella
― superb mario bothers (crüt) (step hen faps), Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
Pretty sure most of those are not 'automatic'
― M. White, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
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
― k3vin k., Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
sorry I just meant "crossbows"
I don't actually know anything about crossbows, or guns
― superb mario bothers (crüt) (step hen faps), Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
Though I am glad Innocent II sucessfully banned the crossbow in 1139.
xpost
― M. White, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
They're not crossbows either, actually
well excuuuuuuse me
― superb mario bothers (crüt) (step hen faps), Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
k3v are you a veg/vegan
― dayo, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
They're just super fancy modern bows like this:
http://www.huntingfishingsouthtexas.com/wp-content/uploads/28_18_orig.jpg
― M. White, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
arrow cocked + ready amirite
― superb mario bothers (crüt) (step hen faps), Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
I'm sorry, there's a bow in that picture?
― OH NOES, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
itt: things that should be illegal
― Brad C., Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
I think I have that exact bow.
― milo z, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
D, I just figured more ppl would give that bow a good looking over
― M. White, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
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
― dayo, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
Hartford, Gunetiquette
― superb mario bothers (crüt) (step hen faps), Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
"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
― OH NOES, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
Have we come to frontbottom so soon?
― M. White, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
― 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
― k3vin k., Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
fyi they dont kill the animals with guns in factory farming
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
of course not, anyone with sense would go for the unarmed ones
― OH NOES, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
Not a traditional Amazon, I see.
(many x-posts later)
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
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, 1 December 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Thursday, December 1, 2011 4:34 PM (5 minutes ago)
no shit, dayo's question wasn't about guns
― k3vin k., Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
― 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 k., Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
I keep seeing this as the proper thing to do after you've shot someone for dropping in.
― M. White, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― milo z, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
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
― M. White, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― milo z, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
I love wild boar, too. I love game, basically.
― M. White, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
so guys did you solve guns yet
― river wolf, Thursday, 1 December 2011 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― M. White, Thursday, 1 December 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― not uplifting (Abbott), Friday, 2 December 2011 04:57 (twelve years ago) link
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/shots-reported-on-virginia-tech-campus/]
― iatee, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
~guns~
sorry, didn't see this revive when I started new thread
― William (C), Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
it's okay I was being trolly when I bumped this one
― iatee, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
do i curtsy before or after pulling the trigger
― amon, Thursday, 8 December 2011 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoU39Rpp4FI
― la mujer de spirea equis, Thursday, 8 December 2011 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
it has been seven years RIP Dimebag
http://i.imgur.com/Fmkrk.jpg
― good webinar (ha ha I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 9 December 2011 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
i keep on thinking of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGyJOX5wFFg
― souslatablelaplage, Friday, 9 December 2011 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
and with that, i will say that i have used some guns in my life, and am shooting with the Pink Pistols San Jose chapter this sunday. with my boyfriend.
― souslatablelaplage, Friday, 9 December 2011 03:28 (twelve years ago) link
Awesome!
― rusty flathead screwdriver, Friday, 9 December 2011 12:54 (twelve years ago) link
Okay, so actual question. My 7-year-old went over to a friends house this weekend and the father let them watch as he picked off some targets in the backyard with a BB gun. Should the father have contacted my wife or myself to let us know? Or was it really no big deal?
― rusty flathead screwdriver, Monday, 12 December 2011 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
If the father didn't let the kids handle the gun, and observed good gun safety rules while handling it himself -- setting a good example -- then I'd say no big deal.
― William (C), Monday, 12 December 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
idk man it depends on the targets, if there was substantial, actionable evidence suggesting they were terrorists then i guess it's fine?, but if it's just hearsay or some kind of ethnic profiling i think it could be setting a bad example
― Never translate German (schlump), Monday, 12 December 2011 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
I think that is 100% regional context dependent. In Chicago "gun culture" is totally different than gun culture in, to use examples from places I've lived, NC or southern Delaware, where a bb gun is No Big Deal. Here, though, I could definitely see a lot parents having a fit about ANY exposure to guns. People just don't own guns in Chicago the same way they do in other places.
― thejenny, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
I told him to wait while I thought about how I felt about guns
― good webinar (ha ha I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, December 1, 2011 11:17 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Permalink
lol
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
a bb gun? i'd say nbd. if said father was safe about it, sure. since it sounds like neither kid shot or even touched the gun, yeah ok.
the only quibble i guess is what kind of bb gun? there are spring-loaded ones that are very close to being toys (but not), and others that are pump or even CO2 charged shooting shaped pellets that can be a lot more dangerous. not to introduce more worry to your mynd.
― slandblox goole, Monday, 12 December 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
I guess I was thinking about it from an ideological perspective rather than a safety one (although that would be my first concern). Lots of parents don't want their kids around guns (BB, toy) at all, so I would clear BB gun activity w/ parents because of that. But again - totally regional.
― thejenny, Monday, 12 December 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link