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Would you prefer to live where guns are allowed?

Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 10 months ago to Culture
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I'd like to live right next to Ragnar, and that's it.
What About You??? -- j
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SOURCE URL: http://www.ijreview.com/2015/06/343478-americans-prefer-neighborhoods-with-firearms-as-opposed-to-areas-without-guns/

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  • Posted by NealS 9 years, 10 months ago
    I found this link in some of the sick comments under the article. It is funny, but contains a lot of truth. About 16 minutes labeled as comedy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL8JEEt2...
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    • Posted by $ jlc 9 years, 10 months ago
      I watched the first few minutes. Perhaps the rest was better, but I did not feel like wading though unfunny anti-gun rhetoric to get to the possible funny parts.

      Jan
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      • Posted by strugatsky 9 years, 10 months ago
        Jan, I completely understand. Jefferies is a moron feeling totally at home with the moronic audience. And every place where his vocabulary fails him, he substitutes the same profanity. At least when George Carlin did it, he had style and used it strategically, not as an alternate dictionary.
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      • Posted by NealS 9 years, 10 months ago
        To each his (or her) own, but I didn't really find it anti-gun rhetoric at all. I took it more pro-gun and the funniest part of it to me was when he said that's almost exactly what you (and I) would say. I actually laughed and I don't laugh that much, never have.

        Please take no offense in my remarks, none intended, just expressing a different opinion on something we obviously agree on, gun rights..
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 10 months ago
    I plan to buy a "pocket pistol" within the next 15 days with the requirements of being a 9mm and having a hammer I can thumb back.
    Why those specs? I don't like "strikers" such as Glocks. Having a hammer to thumb back is a "safety" is a feature Old Dino is very old dino comfortable with. Also, I never had a 9mm and so I want a freaking 9mm.
    Secondly, I'd like to replace a Beretta Tomcat that I had for a while but gave to one of my grown kids. It's unbelievably accurate at long range for a little .32 pistol and I like the way you can chamber a round on top of a loaded clip by flipping up the barrel. (Click the link).
    Come to just now think it about, I believe it was a was a double-action too. Could be wrong.

    http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=bere...
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    • Posted by strugatsky 9 years, 10 months ago
      Just an opinion - unless you have really lots of practice with it, by the time you pull the hammer, you may not need it anymore. The thumb safety is much faster and can become part of the muscle memory as you draw. Or go to a somewhat larger gun that has 911-style palm safety, like Springfield XD.
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      • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 10 months ago
        The hammer can be thumbed back as you draw the pistol.
        That was the proper way to draw the single action Colt Peacemaker. And other such Wild West revolvers.
        I have a 1860 Colt Navy cap and ball replica. The rear sights are in the top of a fully cocked to the rear hammer.
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    • Posted by gerstj 9 years, 10 months ago
      Well, your requirement for a hammer you can thumb back rules out my favorite carry pistol, but I'll mention it any. Look at the Ruger LCP 380. It is very thin and light 6 + 1 , double action, no safety. I carry it every day an hardly know it is there. Totally reliable.
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      • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 10 months ago
        You remind me of the first pistol I bought back in the 70s.
        I had been threatened for some police beat stories I wrote when I was a newspaper reporter.
        Now I just plain want to have a 9mm for once in my life.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_%2...
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        • Posted by gerstj 9 years, 10 months ago
          A 380 is a 9mm short. It doesn't have quite the impact, but it is a good, close range weapon for stopping muggers and home invaders .I like it because it is so easily concealed, but it is a lot more than it looks like. Ruger also makes some small 9mm, but I can't vouch for them personally. I also have a S & W 9mm which holds 15 rounds. I take it to the range, but don't usually carry it because it is quite a bit larger. The weapon you carry... and all that.
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    • Posted by IndianaGary 9 years, 10 months ago
      You might want to look into a revolver like my 357 Magnum. Revolvers don't jam and honor your requirement for a hammer. They're available in 9 MM as well, if you insist.
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      • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 10 months ago
        Your advice is appreciated.
        I'm looking for something thin to conceal in my pocket.
        I had a 357 Magnum during the 80s. I can recall the dude I bought it from but who I sold it to cannot be accessed from old dino's memory banks.
        I have NRA qualified with a .38 at least 20 times for both the Alabama DOC and two different security companies thereafter.
        One other last security company let me qualify with my Kimber .45 semi-auto and I wore it as a bank guard for a while.
        Fully retired now and haven't fired a shot for over a year. That shall soon change.
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        • Posted by strugatsky 9 years, 10 months ago
          I have two incredibly small guns - a Taurus TCP in 380 and Smith & Wesson M&P 380 bodyguard in 380. Not as powerful as 9x19, but amazingly small. About the size of yesteryear .25's. The TCP does not have safety at all, but a long trigger pull; the M&P has thumb safety and a slightly less heavy pull. They weight just a few ounces and sell for $200. No excuse not to have one!
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        • Posted by IndianaGary 9 years, 10 months ago
          You remind me that I need to hit the range soon as well.
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          • Posted by $ winterwind 9 years, 10 months ago
            you're not the only one!
            We used to live 10 minutes from a nice outdoor range [there's a hotel there now], and we were competing, so we shot 3 or 4 times a week for at least 2 hours each time. them was the days!
            I want my new house to have room for a range, pistol distances at least [out to 100 yards]. We are starting to get more houses for sale advertised as "with room for your own shooting range". I read that and can at least take a deep breath.
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