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Old 08-09-2015, 08:34 AM
 
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It seems like everywhere I look and see, I'm being pressured to buy a gun...not just one gun, multiple ones. Gun shows all over the place, advertisements in newspapers and magazines, and non-stop talk about guns on TV and the radio.

It's like American culture expects me to be carrying around a gun 24/7, and that if I don't own multiple firearms, I'm somehow a second class citizen. Anyone else tired of this?
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merica luvs walmart, suvs and violence. What do you expect. not a nation of hi-thinkers
please dont buy any guns, there that should take the pressure off. i see more ads for stuff like viagra, cialis, cars, trucks, various lawyers wanting to sue people, various fast food places wanting to sell you their latest creation, companies wanting to sell various insurance policies, etc. than i do companies wanting to sell guns. and i live in southern arizona where we seem to have a gun show weekly.

if you guys do not want to own firearms, then please do not buy any. its just like if you dont want to see porn, or anything else you dont like, move on, dont watch it/buy it/do it. this is the wonderful thing about living in a free country, its your CHOICE to see/do/buy things or not. dont like fox news? turn on msnbc. dont like, guns? dont buy them. it really is that simple.

the only pressure put on you, is that which you put on yourself.
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Old 08-09-2015, 08:35 AM
 
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It seems like everywhere I look and see, I'm being pressured to buy a gun...not just one gun, multiple ones. Gun shows all over the place, advertisements in newspapers and magazines, and non-stop talk about guns on TV and the radio.

It's like American culture expects me to be carrying around a gun 24/7, and that if I don't own multiple firearms, I'm somehow a second class citizen. Anyone else tired of this?





It seems like everywhere I look and see, I'm being pressured buy into homosexuality...not just one of a kind, but multiple variations/politically associated with it. Gay Parades all over the place, advertisements in newspapers, magazines, and non-stop talk about homosexuality, transgenders, transsexuals on TV and the Radio.

It's like American sub-culture expects me to be carrying around tolerance for that which I disagree with 24/7. and if I don't rubber stamp it, I'm somehow a second class citizen. Anyone else tired of this?



I do see The Second Amendment in the Constitution.

If you don't want one, don't get one.

I'm not buying the "New" America either.
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Old 08-09-2015, 08:37 AM
 
Location: Del Rio, TN
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It seems like everywhere I look and see, I'm being pressured to buy a gun...not just one gun, multiple ones. Gun shows all over the place, advertisements in newspapers and magazines, and non-stop talk about guns on TV and the radio.

It's like American culture expects me to be carrying around a gun 24/7, and that if I don't own multiple firearms, I'm somehow a second class citizen. Anyone else tired of this?
If you don't want a gun, no one is forcing or encouraging you to buy one. Some people don't have the maturity to own or carry them and it's fine if they recognize that.
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Old 08-09-2015, 08:46 AM
 
Location: Londonderry, NH
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I wonder why more firearms are not advertised on TV. You would seem to me that the manufacturers would want to sell more stuff like the drug companies, ambulance chasing lawyers, insurance sales geckos and the entire tribe of auto sales stores. The only pressure I feel to own a gun is the need to protect myself and family from violent criminals.

IMHO the overriding reason decent law abiding peaceful people should own a firearm is first to protect themselves from violent assault and secondly because they just want to. The fundamental problem with restricting people's access to guns is the criminals do not and will not follow the law. To a violent criminal a gun is just another tool and they would as likely to not have one as an electrician without a test lamp.

Unfortunately we do NOT live in an entirely peaceful society. If we did we would not be human.
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Old 08-09-2015, 08:52 AM
 
Location: Florida
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It seems like everywhere I look and see, I'm being pressured to buy a gun...not just one gun, multiple ones. Gun shows all over the place, advertisements in newspapers and magazines, and non-stop talk about guns on TV and the radio.

It's like American culture expects me to be carrying around a gun 24/7, and that if I don't own multiple firearms, I'm somehow a second class citizen. Anyone else tired of this?
You betcha--I agree. It is obnoxious. Just think if you lived in a country where they hardly exist. It is only going to get worse as there are more mass shootings or shootings by the mentally ill. There will eventually be metal detectors everywhere. Sick of hearing about shootings on the news and wondering if the person in traffic who is pissed off about something has a gun.

And, yes, we are planning a move to Europe in a year or two just to experience a better quality of life and am looking forward to see what it is like to live somewhere without a 'gun culture' and gun ownership, which I believe has been shown to actually make people feel more paranoid.
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Old 08-09-2015, 08:58 AM
 
Location: Central Ohio
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merica luvs walmart, suvs and violence. What do you expect. not a nation of hi-thinkers
And as backup to your claim, that mericans aren't high thinkers, I offer as evidence the fact Obama won not one but two Presidential elections!
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Old 08-09-2015, 08:59 AM
 
Location: NJ
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It seems like everywhere I look and see, I'm being pressured to buy a gun...not just one gun, multiple ones. Gun shows all over the place, advertisements in newspapers and magazines, and non-stop talk about guns on TV and the radio.

It's like American culture expects me to be carrying around a gun 24/7, and that if I don't own multiple firearms, I'm somehow a second class citizen. Anyone else tired of this?
Got news for you, no one else is being smothered in marketing to own a gun. you have to be looking real hard for these ads.

You have to do a web search or listen to a hinterland radio station to know of a gun show schedule.

You are edging closer to paranoia.....

tired of the gun culture.....? Nope

tired of the justice and legislators not enforcing existing laws and passing irrelevant laws that do nothing to protect those they pretend to care about....YES an overwhelming, YES!
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Old 08-09-2015, 09:01 AM
 
Location: Old Bellevue, WA
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merica luvs walmart, suvs and violence. What do you expect. not a nation of hi-thinkers

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And your post is a perfect example of a lack of "hi-thinking" - I think. Unless you're talking about thinking under the influence of drugs. In which case, your very poorly constructed sentence might be a PERFECT example of "hi-thinking." Who knows?

Please don't buy a gun.
"[M]Erica" is evidently not a nation of correct spelling, punctuation (use of question mark), and capitalization either. Sadly I think we are increasingly a nation of "hi-thinkers."

One of my pet theories of late is that brain damage from drug and alcohol use has factored significantly into the political landscape of our time. The low-info voter is now king. Or rather the politico who is most skilled at manipulating and exploiting a growing population of low-info voters.
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Old 08-09-2015, 09:05 AM
 
Location: The Silver State (from the UK)
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Yes. It's like living in the matrix sometimes. This country has a real problem with facts when they interfere with "freedom"!

Statistics show that guns are a terrible form of protection. They also show that 2015 is the worst year for mass shootings (and we are only in august), but why let that spoil the party. Merica.
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Old 08-09-2015, 09:15 AM
 
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You betcha--I agree. It is obnoxious. Just think if you lived in a country where they hardly exist. It is only going to get worse as there are more mass shootings or shootings by the mentally ill. There will eventually be metal detectors everywhere. Sick of hearing about shootings on the news and wondering if the person in traffic who is pissed off about something has a gun.

And, yes, we are planning a move to Europe in a year or two just to experience a better quality of life and am looking forward to see what it is like to live somewhere without a 'gun culture' and gun ownership, which I believe has been shown to actually make people feel more paranoid.
Since you are already planning a move to Europe, try Switzerland, where every adult is issued a gun and trained how to use it. Ironic, isn't it? But liberals still refuse to see it really is not about the weapons but about the people who are using them.
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