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People who are into guns kinda weird me out

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micrometers

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Basically, a gun fetish is operationally like any gadget fetish, such as computers, bicycles, home theatre, boats, cars, motorcycles, watches, etc.

Except guns are designed to inflict suffering on living beings.

Yes, I know they can be used for target practice, and they are supposed to be for self-defense, but the practice is for wounding/killing and the method of self-defense is wounding/killing.

The weirdest thing is seeing those guys who went to war and then are into antique guns. Like they relish the tools of killing fields.
 
People who are weirded out by guns are themselves weird...it's just a tool, get over it

and BTW enthusiast != fetish
 
It seems like a waste of time and money to me, but so to a lot of other hobbies. There are a lot of gun nuts around here, and for the most part, they don't even seem to view them as something to use against other people. They're just a valuable, beautifully constructed, and perfectly working "thing". It's the people who rarely have any contact with guns who have the irrational attitude toward them.
 
Fetish? Hardly. When my guns and I are intimate it isn't kinky at all. We make love.

Sweet, large caliber love.

You know what they say, "Once you go black powder you never cum louder"
 
SlitheryDee said:
It seems like a waste of time and money to me, but so to a lot of other hobbies. There are a lot of gun nuts around here, and for the most part, they don't even seem to view them as something to use against other people. They're just a valuable, beautifully constructed, and perfectly working "thing". It's the people who rarely have any contact with guns who have the irrational attitude toward them.
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I actually went to two gun shows recently for work. One was for the newest tech guns. The other was for vintage guns.

The newest tech gun show was alright. The technology was interesting and the people professional.

The vintage gun show was creepy as fuck. Lots of weirdos. Lots of Vietnam vets. Lots of crazy birthers.
 
SlitheryDee said:
It seems like a waste of time and money to me, but so to a lot of other hobbies. There are a lot of gun nuts around here, and for the most part, they don't even seem to view them as something to use against other people. They're just a valuable, beautifully constructed, and perfectly working "thing".
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So we've been moved from "fetish" to "nuts"...go us! However you are correct, they are just a "thing", a tool, the use of which is determined by the person utilizing it...why do you people always want to represent that they need to be used against another person? That's one possible use of many...
 
karmypolitics said:
Basically, a gun fetish is operationally like any gadget fetish, such as computers, bicycles, home theatre, boats, cars, motorcycles, watches, etc.
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A firearm is a work of art.

The way the parts fit and work together, the details on the wood stock, the history behind the firearm,,, it's all something to be admired.
 
corwin said:
People who are weirded out by guns are themselves weird...it's just a tool, get over it

and BTW enthusiast != fetish
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I think most people are uncomfortable around guns. The fact that someone is carrying something that is designed to instantly kill several people on a whim causes nervousness. We don't know if you're carrying around a firearm and you're crazy, suicidal, angry...who knows?

Please don't use the "well cars can kill people too" argument, because the design intent of cars is for transportation. The design intent of a gun is to kill.
 
karmypolitics said:
People who are into guns kinda weird me out

Basically, a gun fetish is operationally like any gadget fetish, such as computers, bicycles, home theatre, boats, cars, motorcycles, watches, etc.

Except guns are designed to inflict suffering on living beings.
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You should move to a country more suited to your anti-gun views.
 
Texashiker said:
A firearm is a work of art.

The way the parts fit and work together, the details on the wood stock, the history behind the firearm,,, it's all something to be admired.
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I agree. But it's not really unique compared to other mechanical works of art, like computers, watches, bicycles, which are equally if not more intricate and beautiful.

A gun fetish I think points to a paranoid state of mind.
 
Honestly, this is probably because of your lack of exposure to guns. Time and again when people go shooting once their hesitation and apprehension go away.

Put another way, "your lack of experience points to a paranoid state of mind". 🙂
 
Fritzo said:
I think most people are uncomfortable around guns. The fact that someone is carrying something that is designed to instantly kill several people on a whim causes nervousness. We don't know if you're carrying around a firearm and you're crazy, suicidal, angry...who knows?

Please don't use the "well cars can kill people too" argument, because the design intent of cars is for transportation. The design intent of a gun is to kill.
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Considering the scale of gun ownership in the US I think most people aren't uncomfortable around guns, a somewhat vocal minority however are...and there are plenty of other devices that could kill multiple people at a whim floating around, do swords make you nervous as well? Considering how many guns there are and how few are used in criminal activity to hurt others I think it's the anti-gun crowd that's the paranoid ones...
 
karmypolitics said:
I agree. But it's not really unique compared to other mechanical works of art, like computers, watches, bicycles, which are equally if not more intricate and beautiful.
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Comparing a computer to a firearm?

<facepalm>

How fast do computers become outdated? Pick up a 386 and try to run a modern application on it.

Pick up a 1911 45acp, its just as effective today as it was 100 years ago.

Tell me, how many computers stormed the beaches of Normandy, where was windows while the battle of the Alamo or Pearl Harbor going on?
 
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