From an email list:
A guy cruises through a stop sign and gets pulled over by a local policeman.
He hands the cop his driver’s license, insurance verification, plus his concealed carry permit.
“Okay, Mr. Smith,” the cop says, “I see your CHL permit. Are you carrying today?”
“Yes, I am.”
“Well then, better tell me what you got.”
Smith says, “Well, I got a .357 revolver in my inside coat pocket. There’s a 9mm semi-auto in the glove box.
And, I’ve got a .22 magnum derringer in my right boot.
“Okay,” the cop says. “Anything else?”
“Yeah, back in the trunk, there’s an AR15 and a shotgun.
That’s about it.”
“Mr. Smith, are you on your way to or from a gun range…?”
“Nope.”
“Well then, what are you afraid of…?”
“Not a damn thing…”
Yep. Been there, done that.
This sounds like my psych eval twenty years ago for ATCS.
If you carry a gun around, people will call you paranoid. Well, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid about? I’ve got a gun!
“Don’t leave home without it” – Karl Malden
I’m not a gun owner myself (I am a 2nd amendment supporter, just never really had the need/interest in getting a gun myself), but that joke was hilarious.
~Jon
Brings a “Muppet Show” video to mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1KSaUEu_T4
And if some lunatic who was also enjoying his 2nd Amendment rights decides to ventilate your car and you at random while you are standing at a stop light?
Oh, about the same thing as if some overpaid BATFE or DEA thug decides to blow your brains out in a non-knock raid. Except that there’s more of a chance of justice being done in the first case.
Fletcher, if they ventilate your car, you ventilate them. One less lunatic for the next guy to worry about.
And if some lunatic who was also enjoying his 2nd Amendment rights decides to ventilate your car and you at random while you are standing at a stop light?
I’m not a Constitutional scholar, but I’m pretty sure the 2nd amendment doesn’t guarantee the right to “ventilate” some random persons car while standing at a stoplight.
Am I to gather they don’t allow guns on Pitcairn Island?
Am I to gather they don’t allow guns on Pitcairn Island?
Probably not – too much inbreeding.
McGehee,
Oddly enough, the answer to your question is “sometimes yes, sometimes no.” All the guns were confiscated on Pitcairn Island in 2004, when half the male population were to be put on trial for having sex with minors.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3554256.stm
And if some lunatic who was also enjoying his 2nd Amendment rights decides to ventilate your car and you at random while you are standing at a stop light?
Anyone of the mind to randomly ventilate someones car in all likelyhood would do so without any regard to the 2nd Amendment or any other laws.
“Fletcher Christian Says:
December 15th, 2010 at 2:43 am
And if some lunatic who was also enjoying his 2nd Amendment rights decides to ventilate your car and you at random while you are standing at a stop light?”
Then you can kiss your retarded strawman ass goodbye you helpless Limey!
I was, of course, referring to the all-too-common phenomenon of “suicide by cop” in which someone who has exercised his 2nd Amendment rights suddenly snaps and decides to climb a water tower or some such and snipe random motorists.
Of course, if it’s less easy to have the rifle in the first place then this is less likely to happen.
Why am I bothered about this, as I live 4000 miles away from any such possibility? Simple, really. The domestic American gun market is the main reason why illegal guns can be bought at less-than-astronomical prices in the UK. I don’t really care a damn about Manchester drug dealers killing each other; but I do care about innocent bystanders (and victims of mistaken identity) being caught in the crossfire. No, the guns are usually not smuggled Russian army pistols – they are usually the models freely available in the American domestic market.
The 2nd Amendment would make sense, and a similar law over here also would, if anyone paid attention to the first part of it. The Swiss do something to the 2nd Amendment in full – it seems to work for them.
Ken, what if they are 400 yards away with a scope sight?
Read up on Hideyoshi’s Sword Hunt, Fletch.
Ken, what if they are 400 yards away with a scope sight?
You mean, how do you counter a sniper? Mortars would be my choice. I like to be indiscriminate in my counter attacks.
The point, all kidding aside, is if someone likes to engage in such antisocial behavior, their immediate death is a permanent solution.
LoL. Your comments are so asinine Fletch I can’t tell if your just trying to one up Rand’s joke or are being unavoidably retarded. In fact, I’d say your perspective on guns is bordering on the paranoid. You might want to talk to a therapist about your inordinate fear of firearms.
“all-too-common phenomenon of “suicide by cop” in which someone……suddenly snaps and decides to climb a water tower or some such and snipe random motorists.”
LoL, is this how you really perceive life here in America? Yes, it’s always important to duck and weave when running out your car in the parking lot. Scoped marksman are just itching to pop you with a head shot from every possible vantage if you stay still too long. And why are they doing this? Because this covert killer, perched on yonder hill, is waiting for a cop to discover them and kill them. Silly silly silly…. More Americans have killed themselves falling out of bed than by getting sniped by a gunmen using a scoped high power rifle. But of course we all know the solution to this — baby cribs for everybody. You no longer have the right to a soft cozy bed; it’s for your own good.
“they are usually the models freely available in the American domestic market.
FREE FIREARMS!!! Why don’t I know about this ?!?! Sign me up!
Fletch doesn’t understand that he has as much credibility with us on firearms as an eight year old trying to interject himself into a discussion of adults at a cocktail party on a similar subject.
You are stuck at the 4th level of competence on this subject Fletch: You don’t know what you don’t know.
You repeat boogeymen and characateurs and wonder why we laugh at you.