Gun Etiquette

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

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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.

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/shots-reported-on-virginia-tech-campus/]

~guns~

sorry, didn't see this revive when I started new thread

it's okay I was being trolly when I bumped this one

do i curtsy before or after pulling the trigger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoU39Rpp4FI

it has been seven years RIP Dimebag

http://i.imgur.com/Fmkrk.jpg

i keep on thinking of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGyJOX5wFFg

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.

Awesome!

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

yes i have heard of these parents who do not allow toys with anything weapon-y at all. don't know what to say about that other than i am glad my parents were not like that.

lmao http://goo.gl/C92Fx

Thanks for the input guys. We aren't anti-weapon, but we are pro-safety. I'm not all busted up about it, but I still feel like I would have been totally cool with it if the dad had just called over and been like, "By the way, this is what's up..."

My wife is freaking out a little bit because before the kids interrupted him, the dad was using the bb gun to shoot squirrels for dinner. I think that's great and also somewhat hilarious; Lisa thinks it's terrible. We are two different types of vegetarian, I think.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/12/travel/gun-carryon-atlanta-airport/index.html

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