[Papa_lecki]

Originally Posted by Two Bills

I always have this vision of a Christmas balloon exploding in a local Walmarts, Publix, Restaurant etc. and about half the geriatrics with guns blasting at anything that moves.
Then the Police arrive and start shooting, adding to the mayhem.
Make a great finale to a film.
"Gunfight at the Golden Coral!"

Considering a balloon pop sounds NOTHING like a firearm discharge…..

[ThirdOfFive]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

Why stop with concealed carry…..go for open carry!
The macho guys can show off their pretty guns.

Minnesota has been a "shall issue" state now for nearly two decades. For some unfathomable reason, even though the rest of the restrictions surrounding a permit-to-carry up there make defending yourself illegal in all but the most dire of circumstances, the state is open carry. You can carry openly in public with impunity and as long as you have a permit you're perfectly legal. I am pretty sure it was an oversight by the lawmakers. But it is what it is.

I never did. As far as I was concerned the only person that needed to know I was carrying was me. Far better to keep it hidden than to have to deal with some millennial mom dissolving into a puddle of gibbering drool in some grocery store or Walgreen's at the sight of my LC9.

The people who add fuel to the fire by flaunting or showing off (thankfully very few, in my experience anyway) are doing no one any favors. Flaunting a gun, even though it be totally legal, is rubbing it in the face of somebody, somewhere. Totally unnecessary.

[Dusty_Star]

Originally Posted by JMintzer

Must... Resist... Don't... Want... Another... "Vacation"...

Pink Panther?

[jimbomaybe]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

Sorry, but that is a little like the chicken and the egg controversy.......WHICH one came FIRST? MAYBE NOW, today people may feel a NEED to carry a gun, but it happened AFTER the NRA captured the US government to produce giant PROFITS for the Gun industry OWNERS. And the "LITTLE PEOPLE" suffered the consequences.
........If one remembers back to between WW2 and 1960 the NRA was a HUNTING organization not A HUNTING HUMANS and killing humans organization. AND my Grandfather and father had HUNTING animals-type guns NOT semi-auto 30-round magazine, human-killing $3,000 military-style weapons of WAR ! And you-all will remember that MURDERS were few and far between back then. And the demented MASS-murder scene of TODAY did NOT even exist.
.........Which came 1st the MAN killings or the MAN killing weapons? I KNOW that I know!

And back in the 60s you could buy semi auto war surplus weapons through the mail, and if it was determined you were a bit off you ended up living in a place where the locks were on the outside of the doors

[Pballer]

Originally Posted by JMintzer

There are already Federal and State laws preventing precisely what you're afraid of...



Nope... Switzerland and Finland have a very high number of guns per capita (close to 30 per 100 people), with much less "gun violence"...

Care to explain that?



If you remove just 5 cities, the US ranks at the very bottom of gun violence per capita...

https://youtu.be/pELwCqz2JfE



So the NRA is the Wizard of Oz?

In 2020 the states with the highest per capita murder rates were Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama - must be due to all the big cities in these 3 states.

By the way, Florida has a higher per capita murder rate than NY. I guess our governor is not tough enough on crime.

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by Papa_lecki

Considering a balloon pop sounds NOTHING like a firearm discharge…..

Well... He is from England, so...

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by Dusty_Star

Pink Panther?

Nah, I just keep getting in trouble for some of my responses to his "more interesting" posts...

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by jimbomaybe

And back in the 60s you could buy semi auto war surplus weapons through the mail, and if it was determined you were a bit off you ended up living in a place where the locks were on the outside of the doors

You could buy M1 Garands (a REAL weapon of war) at Montgomery Wards... They had them in barrels in the sporting goods department...

[Caymus]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

Why stop with concealed carry…..go for open carry!
The macho guys can show off their pretty guns.

Are murder rates higher in open carry counties?

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by Pballer

In 2020 the states with the highest per capita murder rates were Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama - must be due to all the big cities in these 3 states.

By the way, Florida has a higher per capita murder rate than NY. I guess our governor is not tough enough on crime.

Tell me you didn't watch the video without telling me you didn't watch the video...

Cities with the highest murder rates:

1. Jackson, Mississippi
2. New Orleans, Louisiana
3. Birmingham, Alabama

Analysis: For second straight year, Jackson’s homicide rate ranks highest in U.S. among major cities

Oh, and btw, WHERE are those murders being committed in FL? And WHO is running those cities?

NYC does not = NY State...

[Pballer]

Originally Posted by JMintzer

Tell me you didn't watch the video without telling me you didn't watch the video...

Cities with the highest murder rates:

1. Jackson, Mississippi
2. New Orleans, Louisiana
3. Birmingham, Alabama

Analysis: For second straight year, Jackson’s homicide rate ranks highest in U.S. among major cities

Oh, and btw, WHERE are those murders being committed in FL? And WHO is running those cities?

NYC does not = NY State...

The per capita murder rate of NYC itself is much lower than that of these 3 states and barely above Florida as a whole. Sorry it doesn't fit your narrative.

[Taltarzac725]

Think the trouble with the Old West mentality is that many of those with guns back then could not shoot worth a damn especially if someone was shooting back at them.

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by Pballer

The per capita murder rate of NYC itself is much lower than that of these 3 states and barely above Florida as a whole. Sorry it doesn't fit your narrative.

It was never part of my narrative...

[Papa_lecki]

Originally Posted by Caymus

Are murder rates higher in open carry counties?

Well, In Pennsylvania, the ONLY county you need a license to OPEN carry is Philadelphia - where 516 people were killed last year - so I would say no.

You can open carry in any other county in PA without a license to carry

[Papa_lecki]

Originally Posted by Pballer

In 2020 the states with the highest per capita murder rates were Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama - must be due to all the big cities in these 3 states.

By the way, Florida has a higher per capita murder rate than NY. I guess our governor is not tough enough on crime.

Tell you what, you go into NY City and spend the night walking the streets - I’ll do the same thing here. See who feels safer.
You pick the city in FLA, Orlando, Miami, Tampa?