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gtolbert09 wrote:

Anybody have one of these Ruger Blackhawk convertibles? Man, I just found out these exist. I would love to have a single action I could feed 9mm instead of 45LC. It would also fill the .357 hole in my collection. Let's talk revolvers.

I have one of those. Sweet little pistol.

Nice! I love single action revolvers. My .45 is my favorite gun, but at about $40 a box, it's got an expensive appetite. I would love to have one I could feed 9mm. .357 mag can be pretty fun to shoot as well. I think it's more expensive, though, right?

1911 Raptor wrote:i Think we have an anti in our midst.

The best trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing people he didn't exist. The first thing most antis do is try to convince you they are just one of you. They make a new account, ask a couple questions, then they get started trying to convince you that nobody wants to take your guns. They say they own guns and are just looking out for your interests by trying to convince you to give up some of your rights. All the while using their emotional arguments and trying to convince you that "something" has to be done, and it will be done without your consent if you don't make some "compromises." Then anybody that calls them out on it gets insulted and called deranged. These types of trolls are more annoying and dangerous than the overt ones, because they try to maintain plausible deniability. I'm sure we're all familiar with another such troll that's been on these boards for much longer that employs these same tactics.

Again, let's all stop feeding the troll. He can insult me some more; my ego is not fragile; we just don't need to keep feeding his.

Anybody have one of these Ruger Blackhawk convertibles? Man, I just found out these exist. I would love to have a single action I could feed 9mm instead of 45LC. It would also fill the .357 hole in my collection. Let's talk revolvers.

TheFriscoKid wrote:Lucas - the problem is none of these are 'outliers' anymore. It's not just one more school shooting, it's all of it. The suicides, the mass shootings, the schools, the malls the c&w festivals.... all of them. It's the tide.

I always wonder what the dumbest thing I'll read on the internet will be each day. Congrats, you win today.

There are millions of gun owners in this country. There are hundreds of millions of guns. When the odds of being involved in a shooting of any kind are fractions of a percent, they are outliers. The tide? What are you smoking? Violence and murder have been steadily decreasing, despite the massive increase in media exposure given to the EXTREME OUTLIERS. Despite (or possibly because of) the massive increase in the number of guns, and people carrying guns in this country, fewer people are using them to commit crimes.

I will give up nothing. I will not compromise. You will have to pry my guns out of my cold, dead hands, you gun grabbing liberal pretending to be one of us. Go back to reddit, where you belong.

Quit feeding the troll, guys.

I will not agree with giving up any more ground to the antis. Name one concession they have given to us? When have they ever given us something in return? What gun right has ever been given back to us by the Democrats once it was taken away?

Bump stocks are stupid, and a waste of perfectly good ammo, but you know what? I don't want them banned. There is absolutely no legitimate reason for them to be banned. They've existed for years, and just now they need to be banned because some evil man used one for evil? I'm sick and tired of extreme outliers being used to justify taking something away from law abiding citizens.

You want the hard truth? You want to know what actually needs to be done? You ready for it?

NOTHING.

The system is working. Hundreds of thousands of defensive gun uses a year. Rising gun ownership and declining gun violence. The areas with the strictest gun laws experiencing the highest crime rates. It all shows that our ideas on how things should be done are correct. Dead school kids do not justify taking action against millions of people who abide by the law. I know that's harsh, but it's just the way it is. How many people would be dead right now had they not been able to defend themselves or their loved ones with a gun? You really want that alternative? There is no perfect system. There is no way to stop evil from doing violence against the innocent. You can only combat evil, and you need guns to do that.

People die every day from causes that could have been prevented with enough loss of liberty and excessive cost. It sucks, but the only appropriate reaction is to protect your loved ones as best you can and tell as many people about Jesus as you can, because none of us is guaranteed tomorrow.

The only action I could get behind is, again, one that is already being done in conservative areas. Allow school employees who are otherwise legal to do so carry while at work. If schools aren't gun free zones, they won't get shot up nearly as much, and the damage won't be as great.

Just remember, the "rising tide of gun violence" is a total lie. Gun violence is going down. School shootings are not on the rise. Opportunistic gun-grabbing Democrats are just using tragedy as a excuse to try to take our rights away by capitalizing on reactionary public feelings.

Sorry for the rant, but if I have to listen to one more liberal say I need to give up my ability to defend myself and my loved ones against evil just because evil exists in the world, I am going to scream.