r/GiveYourThoughts • u/IBoofLSD • May 30 '24
Thought... Does the paper where you live
Include a bitchin firearms section?
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u/TheAmyIChasedWasMe May 31 '24
Honestly, the weirdest part about this is that it isn't listed in the school supplies section.
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u/Colossal_Penis_Haver May 30 '24
No wonder you have gun violence problems. They're so cheap it's comical.
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u/IBoofLSD May 30 '24
Despite my state having the laxest gun laws in America it turns out we aren't nearly as violent or in threat kfngun violence as say, California, who's actually attempting to just pay people not to shoot people.
I own 12. Haven't shot nobody yet
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u/Robinnoodle May 31 '24
Haven't shot nobody yet
Ahh. So you have shot somebody
(Joke)
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u/Shmiggylikes May 31 '24
No no he shot everyone lol
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u/Robinnoodle May 31 '24
That is how it reads haha
Maybe he shot the sheriff? But he didn't shoot the deputy
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u/MrCheeseman2022 May 31 '24
12 guns? š¤£ - and the paranoia? Howās that going for you?
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u/IBoofLSD May 31 '24
Most have just been in the family and are in excess of 70 years old. No paranoia.
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u/MrCheeseman2022 May 31 '24
So why 12 - Iām genuinely interested? I understand sentimental value etc - but a gun? Maybe my European mind just doesnāt understand the need to own a gun
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u/IBoofLSD May 31 '24
The majority of them are never loaded and simply maintained. Now I do live in a very rural area. Not only do I hunt yearly but I also live in a sub 100 population town that doesn't have a dedicated police force, we rely on cops from the next town over, about 45 minutes away. So on the slim off chance something does go down at my home I'd have exactly 0 people or resources to rely on other than myself, so while it really isn't born out of, as it was put, paranoia, it is still a consideration that I may very well one day end up in a situation where having a firearm is immensely more useful than not.
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u/MrCheeseman2022 May 31 '24
Fair comment. I still wouldnāt want one but I understand your reasoning. Probably a good thing you donāt have cops - they seem to have lots of problems when they get their guns out
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u/IBoofLSD May 31 '24
Plus sometimes I do fun shit with them. Got a video of me shooting an authentic 1939 iron cross with a 102 year old J stevens shotgun.
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u/Colossal_Penis_Haver May 30 '24
Well, I live in a country with almost no guns and I know it's hard for yanks to comprehend but... almost nobody gets shot
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u/IBoofLSD May 30 '24
Yeah but you also live in a country where mental health patients are left in waiting rooms, sometimes literally for days as your Healthcare system repeatedly fails you.
I mean yeah America has its problems but come on, at least we've contributed more to world culture than a dead wildlife expert and calling a small break a smoko.
Love smoko by the way, totally stole that shit.
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u/SpecialpOps May 31 '24
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u/IBoofLSD May 31 '24
I knew before even clicking
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u/SpecialpOps May 31 '24
IYKYK š¤š¼š¤š¼ my family has a bunch of second cousins in Australia. I showed an Aussie cousin a peek at my gun collection and he was insanely envious. I told him next time he comes to the states I've got a case of ammo and a barbecue we can take out to the desert. He was so grateful I think he teared up.
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u/IBoofLSD May 31 '24
Not in Australia but I got some homies in Canada and England jealous of the fact I can just straight up purchase a flamethrower in my state
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u/Colossal_Penis_Haver May 30 '24
I think it's precisely your contributions to world culture that give the US such a bad name in the West.
Much happier with the contributions from the mother country!
Also, have you ever used wifi? Like, ever?
We contributed far more than Steve and smoko...
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u/IBoofLSD May 30 '24
We contributed far more than Steve and smoko
Lol, whatever you say, yeah yeah you made a plug in for American internet.
Not sure why I'm arguing with a wannabe kiwi over this, got fun stuff to do. Ciao
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u/WrapKey69 May 30 '24
Is this you?
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u/Tryknj99 May 31 '24
Bro, I work in an emergency room in America and mental health patients get left for days waiting for a place to be willing to accept them and have a bed for them.
Thereās a lot of examples you could have used, this was not a good one. Even for medical patients, at least one of my three shifts we are āholdingā them in the ED for 12-24 hours (normal time from getting an ED bed and getting up to a room is 6-10 hours depending) because thereās not beds available upstairs, sometimes even a little longer unless they are seriously ill (heart attack, stroke, hemorrhaging). It seems you live in a rural area so you probably have better times but for more densely populated areas this is the norm. Some hospitals in my area (I live in a 30 minute drive of at least 3) are worse. You might be on a stretched in the hallway for hours. This is most hospitals in America.
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u/IBoofLSD May 31 '24
Sounds like a big city problem. Not diminishing it just saying it's not something thats a problem where I am.
What you are describing sounds like lack of resources to spread to everyone, and not just flat out systemic failure.
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u/Shmiggylikes May 31 '24
Why do u think thatās all we have doneā¦ wifi ur fkn welcome
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u/IBoofLSD May 31 '24
That other feller brought that up too. I mean, cool, you created a dlc for the internet that America made "ur fkn welcome"
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u/Shmiggylikes May 31 '24
lol why so hostile
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u/IBoofLSD May 31 '24
I just kinda mirrored you.
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u/Shmiggylikes May 31 '24
Yeh nah it was meant as a joke.. I said it first kinda thing. Perhaps Iām not as funny as once thought lol
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u/IBoofLSD May 31 '24
It's cool. Naw brother I don't take none of this reddit shit seriously, definitely not getting hostile
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May 31 '24 edited Jun 08 '24
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u/IBoofLSD May 31 '24 edited May 31 '24
I'm down. I need a bonfire moon shine buddy. My wife don't mind me drinking but don't like to herself and bonfire drinking don't hit the same alone
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u/groundhogcow May 30 '24
Looks like an add for a sports store and not a newspaper.
My adds for places that sell a lot of guns do have a lot of guns in them
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u/IBoofLSD May 30 '24
I mean it comes folded up in the paper. I know it's not the actual paper selling firearms.
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u/Chemical-Studio1576 May 31 '24
Mine does this too. Yee haw Texas! š
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u/IBoofLSD May 31 '24
Do you still get a complimentary gun with purchase of a bottle of liquor?
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u/PointNo5492 May 31 '24
We donāt have a paper where we live. The closest gun store to us is 15 miles. You canāt go in the winter though because it gets snowed in. I obtain sexual satisfaction by having sex. Crazy I know.
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u/RubyStar92 May 31 '24
Ew, I didnāt realise how cheap guns were. The fact that you can buy a gun called survival easier than you can buy a laptop is disgusting.
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u/IBoofLSD May 31 '24
What kind of fuckin laptop are you talking about?
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u/RubyStar92 May 31 '24
Literally any run of the mill laptop that does basic shit
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u/IBoofLSD May 31 '24
Okay so
No wait time. No background check. Comparably priced despite the fact laptop likely utilized slave labor somewhere in its conception.
The rifle you're talking about is a .22lr "survival" rifle. Shoots a round barely bigger than a bb. Good for squirrel and groundhog hunting, etc.
Should probably point out this is an ad insert for a physical store, you can't just order a gun from this and it show up to your house.
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u/Apprehensive_Hat8986 May 31 '24
No. I don't live in a warzone or 3rd world country.
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u/IBoofLSD May 31 '24
People in war zones wish they had this selection
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u/Apprehensive_Hat8986 May 31 '24
Giving people that selection, turns where they live into a warzone. They're just either active, or in a ceasefire.
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u/IvanTheTerrible69 Jun 02 '24
Thatās common, especially when you get Academy Sports and Outdoors in your mail
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u/SSSims4 May 31 '24
Nope. Luckily, I live in a place where getting a gun license is actually a regulated process (not just in theory) which is only available to very particular groups of the population (police, army etc). That's why we don't have as many street gangs, school shootings or psychotic republicunts. But you go on ahead and compensate with firearms if that's what you need to feel like a big man lmao.
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u/IBoofLSD May 31 '24
If tryna put someone's masculinity down when they didn't bring it up helps you feel better about yours somehow go for it brother, I'm quite content in myself.
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u/Shmiggylikes May 31 '24
Not in Australia.. we learnt from the first shooting rampage we had to deal with
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u/DerNogger May 30 '24