I have shot guns before (pistols, rifles, shotguns), but I have zero interest in ever owning one. I would also like to protect the hearing I have left and staying away from guns is a good way to do it.
Rolling Stone Calls For Repeal Of Second Amendement
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Earplugs are probably the worst protection for your hearing if you are shooting firearms. I was told when I was 10, to basically not shoot guns, go to rock concerts or use power tools or garden equipment without using the best noise suppressing earmuffs we could buy. The recommendation came from my ENT. My experience shooting guns is limited do to the fact that I wasn't really interested in it. I did get into archery and did it for a number of years. As I said I have no problem with people owning guns, but the rest you already know.
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NOPE. YES. Because I have absolutely no interest in it. Only a few people I grew up with had an interest in hunting, so it wasn't something we were drawn to. Do you have an interest in woodworking? An interest in ice hockey?
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Oh, I'm calm. I had a feeling you as well as she was from the South with your fervent interest in shooting, hunting, etc. I've been in Georgia once and it's not high on my list of states I would like to visit again.
I thought I made it pretty clear what problems I have with assault weapons. They have no place outside of a war zone. I would have no problem with gun ranges having them, so those who want to shoot them can, but own them no.
Oh really, do you have bad experience with guns? Why caused lost the interest in gun?
Of course, I'm interested in woodworking, also I'm sure that Sono will going help me, and again, of course, I love ice hockey.
No bad experiences myself. Like every boy growing up I had an interest in guns, but that ended when I was about 10. Even though I have shot guns before it wasn't something I had to do or was even really interested in. Glad to hear you like woodworking and ice hockey. How about collecting toy trains?
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I'm not true southerner because I grew up in NoVA before moved to Alabama, also beyond north of Richmond, that's not southern anymore, also more than half of our families are from out of the south, especially in midwestern states - Ohio and Missouri. I'm not conservative nor religious like most of southerners (beside beyond south of I-4 corridor in Florida and south of I-10 corridor in Texas are not true southern territories). I support gun rights but I have mixed feeling about gun control laws, also Chicago and DC banned guns and failed because crime rate was all time high from 70s to mid 90s. The class, racism, economic and inequality factored in high crime, not guns.
Some people love to have assault weapons for fun, especially at shooting range or in country so it isn't necessarily restricted to warzone only, also police officers could have assault weapons as well.
Are you scared of assault weapon? How you feel when we call Kalifornia?
I have no problem with pistols, rifles and shotguns period! All the others, yes, I have a problem with them.
Yes, earmuffs and ear plugs have come a long way since I was 10. Back then the best you could do was about 29 dB and those were the muffs worn by people working at airports. A dB rating of 29 does not translate into a noise reduction of 29 dB but ruffly about half of it, so if your exposed to 100 dB of sound and are wearing the 29 dB muffs you are still being exposed to about about 88 dB of sound depending on how well they fit. If you use ear plugs with a rating of 18dB and ear muffs with 29 you won't see a reduction of 47dB but only about 16 or 17 dB, so if your shooting a gun that produces a sound of 165 dB, you are going to receive a damaging sound level of about 148 dB, so over time if you have any hearing left, your going to lose it. Noise canceling muffs do a great job for canceling constant noise, but don't work to well on noise that is intermittent such as the noise that comes from shooting firearms.
As I said, I would have no problem if gun ranges had assault weapons that you could go and shoot to your hearts content, but yes, I have a problem with people owning them. I know most people are responsible gun owners, but unfortunately, there are those that aren't, such as Mr. Mateen in FL., Mr. Oh at Virginia Tech, Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook, James Huberty in San Ysidro, and the list goes on and on. Until they can figure out a way to protect us from those type of killers, the best method of curbing them is a ban. I know people on here are going to say they will go to other methods to kill their victims such as explosives. Even with those the number killed would more than likely be less than those carried out with assault weapons. The Boston Marathon bombing took three lives and wounded 264.
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