Concealed weapon permits in Walton County

[Leader of the Banned]

The girl wasn't forcibly abducted in the view of onlookers, so it's beyond me how a gun could have helped in this case. I suppose if she had been packing you have a situation, tenuous at best, where she might have been able to save herself. I do think that anyone with the maturity, wisdom and presence of mind to properly handle a gun in that situation wouldn't have wandered off with the man in the first place. In this county, the idea of "mature" (and I use the word loosely) adults packing heat doesn't exactly thrill me, so you can imagine how I feel about minors.

 

[Lake View Too]

"The only way to stop a bad heat-packing spring breaker is a good heat-packing spring breaker." I don't think that's gonna fit on a bumper sticker...

 

[Bob]

i believe I'm going to market burial casket gun racks for nra members. members being the operative word here.

 

[BeachRob]

Such a disorganized discussion. It's all a bunch of malarkey if we don't break it down and stop with the "noise."

Concealed Carry Permits

Do the readers and contributors to this board believe the possession of concealed carry permits by individuals in Walton County, FL will make those individuals more/less/equally likely to murder their fellow law-abiding citizens?

National Gun Control Debate

Do the readers and contributors to this board believe gun ownership is acceptable for any/all/which of the following purposes:

Hunting for Trophy?
Hunting for Food?
Warding Off Predators from a Livestock Farm?
Shooting Livestock?
Target/Sporting/Clay?
Demonstration/Entertainment?
Home Defense?
Personal Defense Outside the Home?
Armed Rebellion Against Oppressive Authority?
SHTF/Post-Apocalyptic Scenario?
Firearm Collecting?
Paper Weight?
Making You Look Cool?
Murder Sprees?

Do the readers and contributors to this forum believe the United States Constitution specifically protects ownership of any/all/which of of the following:

Muskets?
Guns Which Use Compressed Air to Propel a Projectile?
Single-Shot Shotguns?
Multiple Barreled Shotguns?
Single Shot Rifles?
Manually Cycled Shotguns?
Manually Cycled Rifles?
Manually Cycled Shotguns of a Capacity Greater than 3 Rounds?
Manually Cycled Shotguns of a Capacity Less than/Equal to 3 Rounds?
Manually Cycled Rifles of a Capacity Greater than 5 Rounds?
Manually Cycled Rifles of a Capacity Less than/Equal to 5 Rounds?
Mechanically Cycled (Semi-Automatic) Shotguns?
Mechanically Cycled Shotguns with a Capacity Greater than or Less than 3 Rounds?
Mechanically Cycled Rifles?
Mechanically Cycled Rifles with a Capacity Greater than or Less than 5 Rounds?
Mechanically Cycled Rifles with Modern Construction?
Mechanically Cycled Rifles with Modern Construction which Closely Resemble Military Rifles?
Mechanically Cycled Rifles with a Modern Construction which Closely Resemble Military Rifles with a Capacity of 20 Rounds? Fewer, or More?
Derringer Pistols?
Single Shot Pistols?
Revolver Pistols?
Mechanically Cycled Handguns?
Mechanically Cycled Handguns with a Capacity Below 7 Rounds? Greater than 7, but Less than 10? No More than 15 Rounds? Unlimited Rounds?
Conventional Ballistic Ammunition?
Ammunition which Deforms in a Soft Media?
Ammunition which Deforms in a Soft Media and Is Marketed with Menacing Graphics on the Box?
Frangible Ammunition?
Exotic Ammunition, Which Has No Proven Tested Increased Lethality?
Ammunition Designed to Pierce Kevlar and Other Hard Media?
Less-Than-Lethal Ammunition?

Statistics and Spin​

2/3 of declared murders in the US are attributed to guns. Do the readers and contributors to this forum believe the 8,000-10,000 non-accidental gun deaths are perpetrated by permit carrying gun owners/members of the NRA/collectors/sporting individuals/people who bought guns because of safety concerns?

Where do the readers and contributors to this forum believe gun related deaths are occurring in the United States? By whose hand do the readers and contributors believe the deaths are occuring?

There are approximately 100,000,000 guns owned by civilians in the United States. There are approximately 350,000,000 people in this country.

The yearly non-accidental gun death toll is around 10,000; or one non-accidental gun death per 10,000 guns. The yearly death toll from gun murders in the US is 0.003%. Twice as many people die, yearly, because they slipped and fell.

Etc...

No one addressed the video I posted a while ago. Steven Levitt and John Donahue theorize that an increase in abortions among the lower-income population over a period of time was directly responsible for a decrease in violent crime 18 years later. What do you make of that?

Seeing as we are having a discussion about the constitutionally protected right to bear arms, where in the Constitution is it stated that citizens have the right to reproduce under irresponsible circumstances?

Eugenics... nazism... racism... etc. That's why we don't go down that road. But, statistically speaking (based on Levitt and Donahue's work), if you are interested in saving innocent lives in general... (Talk amongst yourselves.)

 

[poppy]

Why not start the conversation by being the first to answer your own questionnaire including your suggestion of killing off minorities, WTF ????????
One question missing is, how many gun owners are members of a well regulated militia?

 

[Leader of the Banned]

It's pretty obvious that the level of self-regulation and self-education of some of the posters on this thread is virtually non-existent. You've heard of the gang that couldn't shoot straight? This is the gang that couldn't think straight.

 

[Leader of the Banned]

Hey whatever happened to the discussion about wolverines? That tangent really seemed to bite the dust, didn't it??

 

[justhavinfun]

So now we've changed to talking about tourists from Michigan that like their Wolverines with the striped helmets ? I thought this was ACC/SEC country?

 

[Leader of the Banned]

I'm still trying to figure out how a gun would have kept Anthony Wiener from sending out pictures of his manhood, and how that's going to keep the Red Chinese from using forced sterilization practices on North Koreans in order to keep spring breakers from being murdered in the Pacific Northwest where heavily armed vigilantes exercising their second amendment rights band together to form a counter insurgency against the Russians who are secretly supported by the US government under direction of a manifesto left behind by the late Colonel Sanders. I'm going to have to call wolverine on that one.

 

[30A Skunkape]

Here we go again. Just like I said waaaay back in post 15 on this thread. Can't we all get along?

Gun crime has plunged in the United States since its peak in the middle of the 1990s, including gun killings, assaults, robberies and other crimes, two new studies of government data show.

Yet few Americans are aware of the dramatic drop, and more than half believe gun crime has risen, according to a newly released survey by the Pew Research Center.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-gun-crimes-pew-report-20130507,0,3022693.story