Immediately after stating my belief that no one reads TTAG who hasn’t already made up their mind on gun rights, this email hit the inbox. Winning? The exception that proves the rule? A drop in the bucket? I report you deride.
To whom it may concern,
Just wanted to say how much I’ve enjoyed your website/blog. It’s been an eye opener in more ways than one. I ran across it after doing a google search for reviews on Glocks. The review was well done and kinda funny, so I stayed on the site and kept reading. I was looking for a gun because . . .
I can’t really pin it down honestly. Protection is a buzzword but frankly I hope I’m never in that situation. My guess is like a female who takes personal defense classes because she runs in the park a night after work, I would like a gun because on a occasion I find myself at risk. At least I feel that way. Jury is still out on whether I buy a gun honestly.
To my surprise I found no “Gun Nuts” on your site. Not a lot of ranting. I read some common sense arguments. Whether I agree is beside the point really. The point is common sense and truly listening to apposing views may seem like a lost art, but its not, really.
You’ve made some compelling arguments, and I’m listening. Bravo to both of us.
I know you by your website but you do not know me. My name is Antonio. I’m not a gun enthusiast. I’ve had a family member die in “gun violence”, but at the time we (my family) didn’t think of it as such. It was just a cowardly act by stupid, evil people. It will continue to be just that.
I’m a Democrat. I vote my conscious but I vote party line too. I’ve voted for Obama 3 times, Democratic Primaries, 2008 general election, 2012 general election.. Hey, don’t act like you haven’t made 3 mistakes in a row before! LOL, I kid, I kid.. I like to make fun of myself and of others so that was a gimme. I’m proud of the fact I vote. I don’t think you’re an idiot because of who you vote for, I only think you’re an idiot if you don’t vote period.
There is probably a lot of other stuff that make me different than some of your readers, and that’s ok with me, I’m going to continue to keep reading. Hope that’s ok with you.
Have a great weekend,
Antonio
Sent from my iPad
I’ll be brief.
Ms. Duffy please, just FOAD.
Your friend,
Sammy
Antonio sounds like a lot of Oregon voters.
Well, Multnomah County voters. Damn, I guess that’s most of Oregon’s voters.
I help start the Greens in St. Paul during Reagan. I voted for Obama.
I am also a firearms owner and CCW permit holder (I reasonably believe, that the freaks and nutz shouldn’t be the only ones armed.) I also believe that the NRA no longer represents the firearms community but are simply an organ of the gun industry.
Our biggest threat in modern times, is not Government, but Multi-national Corporations. The Corporations fund anti-goverment astro-turf organizations because they know that the citizens’ best defense against corporate monopoly (As Teddy Roosevelt understood) is banding together in government.
–From a A gun toting, meat eating Liberal in Minneapolis
that buys America manufactured Firearms because I support America Workers
And I’m an anarcho-Capitolist who thinks you’re a dumb@$$.
But I’m glad you own guns.
Lee,
Did you ever think you might be a tool of a leftist organization when you parrot their viewpoints with no original thoughts of your own?
Lee, after reading your comment, I went online to add another year to my NRA membership. Thank you for reminding me why I support the NRA.
I’m actually the same way. I found out that stumbleupon had a guns category and viewed every page in a 24-hour marathon. Several TTAG articles came up. Long story short, I’m now a regular reader, sometimes commenter on the Worlds Largest Firearms Blog, and a proud gun owner/concealed carrier.
A flexible holster could buckle inward and encounter the trigger.
Not likely, but if the holster was less rigid than the gun – or not even the correct holster…?
Further, pushing the gun to push the belt – there’s the negligent part. Overly stress something which is flexible… no finger on trigger required.
There was an old copper who swallowed a fly.
Contradictions don’t bother them. Doublethink. Recall that Roe vs. Wade was framed as a privacy issue. So, now that Obamacare has effectively removed privacy from healthcare in the USA, what does that do to Roe vs. Wade? I don’t expect to hear much discussion on this.
“I only think you’re an idiot if you don’t vote period.”
+10000
I became a US citizen, so I could vote and only if I vote, I feel I am allowed to complain.
Being part of the process is what being an American is about.
Everyone being different is what made america the greatest country on earth. Having grown up in another country, I can tell you that this is not just hyperbole and even these days this still holds true.
So don’t say that despite being different you will join this community and ask for permission, it is because you are different, you will be welcomed by your fellow Americans.
Don’t feed into the MSM hype that gun owners or gun right supporters are some sort of different class/type of american. We are the same doctor, geek, slacker, mailman, housewife or office slave as the rest.
Oddball outliers make for good tv but the ppl that fit the extreme stereotype are just that, extreme oddballs.
Just as an example, you would be surprised by the number of atheist or gay members of gun forums in Florida.
Welcome to TTAG, Antonio, hope you find the firearm you like, stay safe, and be yourself.
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Really… why are we still talking about this asshole.
What is he still doing in my country? He was going to self deport. How’s that going?
LMAO! Once again……What part of all the carp with a microstamp, will the CRIMINAL OBEY? Not ONE thing the P.O.S. Obummer or any POLITICIAN introduce will affect ANY AND ALL CRIMINALS!!!! PURE AND SIMPLE, IT’S CALLED “LAW ABIDING CITIZEN CONTROL” PEOPLE DON’T TRUST THE GOV’T! They’re all HYPOCRITES!!! Go to the halls of any House. And they will have you walk thru metal detector and have more than 10 armed guards you must pass thru before you get to your stuff kinda like a airport. So my point is….They use our money to protect themselves!!! in a controlled area. But yet there want to legislate, you and your families to be on your own with criminals with no way to protect yourself . Also, Google “Warren vs District of Columbia” this was one of 3 CASES! Where the Supreme Court has RULED THAT THE POLICE DO NOT OWE YOU ANYTHING! LOOK IT UP! THEN LISTEN TO ANY JACKASS IN THE MEDIA AND/OR ANY WORTHLESS POLITICIAN TELL YOU. WHY DO YOU NEED A AR-15 OR MORE THAN 7 BULLETS. REMEMBER POLICE HAVE MANY GUNS TO PROTECT THEMSELVES NOT YOU OR YOUR LOVED ONES!!!!!! AND REMEMBER YOU’RE IN THE SAME ENVIRONMENT AS THEY ARE. JUST WAKE UP AND LOOK AT ALL THE PEOPLE GETTING KILLED MY CRIMINALS EVERYDAY ON THE NEWS!
Anyway the wind blows, doesn’t really matter to me, to me
Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he’s dead
He has no actual principles, just a desperate need for attention and ratings.
I would be happy if the presstitutes would just turn from advocacy to journalism. We don’t need them on our side if they are truly objective in their reporting.
Antonio,
Welcome! Contribute ,share ,listen and learn. Share your interest in self-defense and firearms with us, and we’ll do the same with you. Our conversation can only help all of us. And, as you mentioned, it’s a lot of fun!
“Doubtful at best, that in all their history the local Citizens have ever had a more sufficient reason to apply the practice of tarring, feathering and running certain people out of their town on a rail.”
Gw
One of the many refreshing aspects of Antonio’s e-mail to TTAG was his use of the phrase “common sense” being used in its proper context instead of the phrase being hijacked and warped to push an un-Constitutional political agenda.
Antonio, I first came to TTAG via gun reviews too. Although I don’t post many comments – mostly because I’m less knowledgeable on gun-related topics than most of the people on this site who do post – I check TTAG at least four or five times a day. There are a lot of smart and articulate contributors, both writers and commenters, on this site, and it looks like you are going to be one of them.
Nothing like a little abuse of power, chilling first and 4th amendment freedoms to remind people that you cannot trust the government. I realize many people hate Piers and the left, but the truth is that the civil libertarians on the left can be won over, particularly when it comes to registry. The “confiscate” argument does not resonate, but the privacy argument certainly does.
See “George Russell Weller” killed 10 and injured 63 with his Buick LeSabre at an open/farmers type market.
Clearly these high seating capacity (5 std./6 with front bench), full size, assault vehicles are to blame. They belong only in the hands of military and trained law enforcement who are capable of handling such devastating driving power.
This article hurt my brain…
Yeah, the whole AHA stoush was about the permissibility ofa Federal mandate.
States and lower levels of government have always had the power to mandate things that cost. Hookup to city sewers, f’rinstance, or vehicle registration.
The Brady Bunch, as usual, is mistaken.
“There has been too much violence. Too much pain. But I have an honorable compromise. Just walk away. Give me your pump, the oil, the gasoline, and the whole compound, and I’ll spare your lives. Just walk away and we’ll give you a safe passageway in the wastelands. Just walk away and there will be an end to the horror.”
Bill and Mike should just move to Europe if they don’t like the 2A – I won’t miss either of them.
SLAVERY IS NOT BASED ON RACE, whoever said that is a MORAN!! My family came to this country almost 200 years ago, AS INDENTURED SERVENTS!! Im IRISH, and white! Slavery is in every race and in all kinds of places around the world. JOIN THE MILITARY, get off your ass and see the world from off your couch! It just think what your stating…Ohhhdont use that SLAVERY WORD, its not POLITICLY CORRECT, F U!! MY 1st A RIGHTS WONT BE INFRINGED APON EITHER!!
“This is not the time to be stinky…. ”
Jeez there was some guy at the Niles,Ohio show on Saturday that had a 10ft stink bubble around him. I watched as he moved down the isle and you could see nearby victims look up from their items of interest and try to find out who the hell just crapped their pants or something. He was like Moses parting the Red Seas as people went scrambling.
PM is a snake and he has not transformed into an eagle. CNN management long ago embraced a progressive agenda. There is no new enlightened ethical and factual awakening going on.
Are you kidding? Hip hop is the sound track of gang violence.
So when are the NY State Police going to arrest the officer for having more than seven rounds in his pistol? (I haven’t heard anything that suggests the legislature has passed an amendment to the law to exempt LEOs.)
I challenge them to find a single crime (outside of pure possession or hunting violations) that has been committed in MD with any of these guns. If they can’t find a substantial number of crimes, how can they say that they are improving public safety with these bans?
Ah, there is the answer in that question. It is not about reducing crime, it is about making the citizenry incapable of fighting tyranny. If they were truly interested in fighting crime, they would be looking at an entirely different classification of firearms.
No .50 cal rifle has been used in the commision of a crime. The closest it comes is it was once brought along for the ride while a criminal used another gun to a store, the funny thing is the .50 was so big and heavy it impeded his escape, he even had trouble navigating the doors with it. It actually played a huge role in the criminal getting caught.
This is true to the best search I could do about a year ago, but I have not heard of any crimes involving a 50 since.
So there is one gun at least.
Mr. Moore thinks he knows what is best for this country and seeks to control your individual rights. Ironically, he is a fat ba$tard who can’t do what is best for himself and control what he consumes. Mr. Moore can’t get airtime on a legitimate show, hence an appearance on Maher.
The most ridiculous thing on this list is that they are banning all AR15 imitations…all imitations except Colt AR–15 Sporter H–BAR rifle. How can they even hold this up in a court of law. They all work off the same principle? Stupidity at its’ finest.
a taxi driver . . .told authorities he thought he could be transporting an armed ‘foreign speaking’ terror suspect.
I don’t know about Denver, but in New York “armed foreign speaking terror suspect” describes most taxi drivers.
I hope he does sue for millions and wins. I bet he will have a friendly jury pool. I am moving to Arizona soon, and I have planned the trip to travel through Utah instead of Colorado. I refuse to travel through Colorado ever again.
I really do not care what Joe Biden has to say about guns, but it makes me really disturbed that these kids have been brainwashed to such a narrow point of view by our “Public Education System”. This is like NAZI Germany’s Hitler Youth or The Soviet Union’s Young Pioneers or Mao’s All-China Youth Federation. Children are taught ONLY The State’s doctrine and dogma and expected to parrot it in State Organized Letter Writing Projects to the “Great Leaders” of the State pushing the State’s Agenda.
While the details and structures differ, the procedures, goals and principles are the same. Teach the Children what the State wants them to believe and only what the State wants them to believe. Disallow fair and balanced instruction and discussion of social and political subjects and stifle any semblance of independent thinking or opinion formulation. In short, kill the individual’s mental and intellectual development with rigid propaganda and, thereby, any chance of experiencing/expressing personal freedom and liberty.
You can see this so clearly in the “questions” these young students pose, as quoted by RF. in the post. It is sickening and heart-breaking to think we may fight all our lives to preserve our Rights and Liberty only to pass them along to a generation brainwashed to devalue and forfeit them.
Thankfully they didnt ban phased plasma rifles in the 40 watt range.
Maybe the light just got a bit brighter in the worthless Brits bulb.
A good gun store is a happy place. The wife and I went to a favorite gun store today and bought significant quantities of ammo for the first time since the insanity started. We got a case of 9mm Parabellum and a case of 7.62x54R. We looked around for a bit and saw that prices are almost back to normal. Chatted a bit with the staff.
The world felt more right today than it’s felt in a long, long time.
Do you have a link to the video of the ad?
I did about 15 seconds of that clip. Let me be the first to say that it is horrible. Coarse, gross, and violent. It sounds as if it’s the anthem of demons.