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Old 05-26-2020, 10:22 AM
 
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It should be clear to everyone (regardless of where you stand on the topic) that the key point is to clarify is if:
  • A) gun 'nuts' are a relatively subset of gun 'owners'
    OR
  • B) 'gun nuts' == 'gun owners' (i.e. close to identical sets)

Obviously if multiple people engaged in conversation don't have the same definition, then they'll just be speaking around each other.
It appears that someone took offense at the very term. Debating the shape of the Venn diagram is a very fair point.
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Old 05-26-2020, 10:39 AM
 
Location: Florida
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It was probably a 2nd hand Obama effigy which they have hung 100 times before. As boys they play with toy guns, and as adults they play with real guns and effigies.
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Old 05-26-2020, 10:57 AM
 
Location: Philaburbia
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Well gee, those people thank you. And upon what do you base that?
Meh, Kentucky and Ohio residents have a comfortable love-hate relationship. LOL. If people in Ohio and Kentucky had to pay a toll to cross the Ohio River the way people in New Jersey and Pennsylvania have to when crossing the Delaware, they wouldn't bother. I love Kentucky's liquor stores and state parks. I have lots of friends in the Commonwealth, but also know a lot of people there I know I don't want to be friends with. No different from anywhere else I've lived or worked.

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But, it's OK for you to think ground meat with brown gravy on spaghetti like pasta is "CHILI"?
Mmmm ... chili ... I hope I have a can in the pantry, because now I'm hungry! And it's not brown gravy, it's red.
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Old 05-26-2020, 11:05 AM
Status: "This too shall pass. But possibly, like a kidney stone." (set 14 days ago)
 
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Meh, Kentucky and Ohio residents have a comfortable love-hate relationship. LOL. If people in Ohio and Kentucky had to pay a toll to cross the Ohio River the way people in New Jersey and Pennsylvania have to when crossing the Delaware, they wouldn't bother. I love Kentucky's liquor stores and state parks. I have lots of friends in the Commonwealth, but also know a lot of people there I know I don't want to be friends with. No different from anywhere else I've lived or worked.


Mmmm ... chili ... I hope I have a can in the pantry, because now I'm hungry! And it's not brown gravy, it's red.
Well that explains that.

Several weeks ago when grocery stores had very limited food, I was trying to buy spaghetti sauce and all that was left in the Spaghetti Sauce area was a jar of "Red Gravy". It was tomato sauce, I didn't know why they called it Red Gravy, it tasted just like the spaghetti I always make.

But I guess that's another colloquial term for spaghetti sauce!
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Old 05-26-2020, 11:12 AM
 
Location: The Republic of Texas
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I'm from Kentucky and I am pretty odd.

With that being said just because it isn't illegal and is protected by the Constitution doesn't mean that you should still do it.

It isn't illegal for me to have relations with my best friend's ex-wife but it still is definitely something that I should not do.
Rights are like muscles. If you don't exercise them as often as possible, you will lose them.
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Old 05-26-2020, 11:12 AM
 
Location: A safe distance from San Francisco
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Legal, non-violent protest.
It is symbolically violent. I'm not going to debate the legality, as it is in a grey area that reasonable people on both sides can make a case for and never agree.

But it is something only morons would do. And anyone who thinks behavior like this helps this or any cause is categorizing themselves likewise.
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Old 05-26-2020, 11:26 AM
 
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I think there’s a difference between gun owners and gun nuts..
True.

The biggest problem that I see in that entire discussion is that so many people with hard set opinions on the topic have never lived in a more rural area, let alone owned or even fired a gun.

They have zero diversity on the topic but they live in nicer\safer areas but close enough to urban centers where it truly is a big problem.

In those areas they are constantly told that it's a "gun problem" with most of them never stopping to ask why the rural areas with much higher gun ownership numbers have the lowest gun murders and blindly accept the buck passing by the politicians that really just don't have it in the budget to address the core root issues like poverty.
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Old 05-26-2020, 11:36 AM
 
Location: Florida
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Meh, Kentucky and Ohio residents have a comfortable love-hate relationship. LOL. If people in Ohio and Kentucky had to pay a toll to cross the Ohio River the way people in New Jersey and Pennsylvania have to when crossing the Delaware, they wouldn't bother. I love Kentucky's liquor stores and state parks. I have lots of friends in the Commonwealth, but also know a lot of people there I know I don't want to be friends with. No different from anywhere else I've lived or worked.


Mmmm ... chili ... I hope I have a can in the pantry, because now I'm hungry! And it's not brown gravy, it's red.
I miss the "barge" subs they sold in Cincinnati. I lived there in 1995-96, and remember people would cross the river to Covington to buy liqueur, since Cincinnati didn't sell it. Covington had tons of liqueur stores and strip clubs, and not much else, but I hear it had been cleaned up. I also remember the riverboat restaurants with nice views of the Cinci downtown.
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Old 05-26-2020, 11:40 AM
 
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Old 05-26-2020, 09:28 PM
 
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The man who put up the effigy has been fired from his job:

Kentucky auto dealer fires employee who participated in hanging of Gov. Beshear effigy - WDRB
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