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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: TAB on April 02, 2018, 03:09:12 PM
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So I was talking with a sub contractor today about actually going out hunting... when he asked me a question that I really had to think about hard. How many of your friends don't own guns?
for me that number is 2.
the 1st guy has a stupid felony on his record(illegal fire worksm we are all guilty of that at some point, he just got caught)
the 2nd one is her husband is on probation for something.( not sure what.)
I just thought it was a very interesting question, I have several very liberal friends, but they are not the crazy liberal kind, the ones that are in reality, just lean left. funny thing they all own guns for 1 reason, to protect themselves from crazy people.
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Quite a few actually. But I'm working on them.
One interesting Facebook friend posts pro Hillary, pro Obama stuff, and is an outspoken supporter of other liberal issues. However, about every other month or so he post pictures of himself and his son at the range shooting a Glock. I keep him as a face book friend because a) there's hope & b) he's the music teacher at my granddaughter's school.
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A boatload of people I know that I don’t really consider friends here in Massachusetts. I have about zero or so friends in the Northeast!
Back home or elsewhere in the lower 48? Damn near all of them own at least something to hunt with.
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Zero. People who don't own guns aren't my friends. But I don't have many friends.
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3, maybe 4, but they all support gun ownership. One is like Tab's friend, he has a felony, because he tried to co operate with the police when a friend of a friend of his left some of his property stored in his garage. It turns out it was stolen, My Friend was questioned by the police without a Lawyer and they charged him as an accessory to the crime. He wasn't even in the state when the guy committed his crime. I learned from what happens to him to never talk to the police unless I have a lawyer with me.
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I work in a Liberal rich environment (A public defenders office) and have some "friends" from there that are extremely anti-gun and of course gun-ignorant by choice and do NOT want to learn. What I find interesting is most, not all, of the attorneys, are anti-gun but most, not all of the support staff are to one degree or another pro-gun. I tend to be fairly vocal so they know where I stand.
I just try to remain on good working terms with those that wish to remain ignorant to make my job easier ( I am THE I.T. guy). We have about 10 investigators which quite a few are ex-police or ex-corrections people. 3/4 of them are pro-gun. When any of the anti's start talking down guns I simply offer to bring them out to my house and show them what they are fighting. None have taken me up on that offer yet. Quite a few of the pro-gun people have.
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as a retired high school classroom teacher, my situation was similar to ar154me's....those that I ate with knew I shot competition, but had no idea of what USPSA or 3 gun was about... after the Columbine tragedy, a couple of them asked my opinion about home protection, and I was asked to be on the school's committee to re evaluate our emergency plan...
I had one convert for sure... a vocal anti gun lady, whose husband was a neighboring county's parole system administrator, had a violent parolee stalk her 8yr old daughter....after a couple of after school talks, she returned home with an 870 and a hacksaw
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There are some circumstances when you can petition to have your rights to own guns restored after certain felonies. I have a friend/neighbor who had a lower level felony against him from being in the wrong place with the wrong people. He filed the papers through a lawyer to have the felony record expunged along with three letters of character reference (I wrote one of them) and waited for an appointment to appear before a federal judge. It took about six months, but his record was expunged and his rights were restored.