Comments on: Bitterness http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/04/19/bitterness/ Remember, I do this to entertain me... not you. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:57:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kim du Toit http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/04/19/bitterness/comment-page-1/#comment-199056 Kim du Toit Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:18:52 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=15399#comment-199056 I'd be a lot happier if I could buy more guns. There's this fine Garand I saw at the gun show last week, and a beautiful little Ruger revolver, and... ...I can't afford any of them. I’d be a lot happier if I could buy more guns. There’s this fine Garand I saw at the gun show last week, and a beautiful little Ruger revolver, and…

…I can’t afford any of them.

]]> By: twolaneflash http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/04/19/bitterness/comment-page-1/#comment-199053 twolaneflash Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:15:39 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=15399#comment-199053 Maintaining happiness for me, as a serial and multiple gun owner, is available in many calibers and gauges, with targets of many sizes, shapes, and purposes over the years. American society has lost many of the rituals that define a culture. The rituals of shooting may vary regionally, but the attention to the process, the equipment, and the experience supplies similar rewards to the body, mind, and spirit everywhere. Knowing that one can reach out a few hundred yards and hit a target, or clear a room with a 12-gauge in 3 seconds, will tend to extend your bubble of personal joy, and will keep unhappy things and people at a distance. A warm gun and a pile of spent cartridges are, by definition, Constitutionally protected, in the pursuit of happiness. Maintaining happiness for me, as a serial and multiple gun owner, is available in many calibers and gauges, with targets of many sizes, shapes, and purposes over the years. American society has lost many of the rituals that define a culture. The rituals of shooting may vary regionally, but the attention to the process, the equipment, and the experience supplies similar rewards to the body, mind, and spirit everywhere. Knowing that one can reach out a few hundred yards and hit a target, or clear a room with a 12-gauge in 3 seconds, will tend to extend your bubble of personal joy, and will keep unhappy things and people at a distance. A warm gun and a pile of spent cartridges are, by definition, Constitutionally protected, in the pursuit of happiness.

]]> By: Metulj http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/04/19/bitterness/comment-page-1/#comment-199052 Metulj Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:32:39 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=15399#comment-199052 "That 2006 survey is probably wrong. That 34% does not include the high percentage of gun owners who responded to the first 30 seconds of the survey by telling them to mind their own business and then hanging up. That particular group will have a high percentage of gun owners." HA! “That 2006 survey is probably wrong.

That 34% does not include the high percentage of gun owners who responded to the first 30 seconds of the survey by telling them to mind their own business and then hanging up.

That particular group will have a high percentage of gun owners.”

HA!

]]> By: Gunner http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/04/19/bitterness/comment-page-1/#comment-199051 Gunner Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:11:39 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=15399#comment-199051 I'm not bitter? Dangit! I was just startng to like being bitter. It felt rather emo'ish. I’m not bitter? Dangit! I was just startng to like being bitter. It felt rather emo’ish.

]]> By: CL http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/04/19/bitterness/comment-page-1/#comment-199050 CL Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:40:25 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=15399#comment-199050 <blockquote>Vermont: one of the safest five states in the country. In Vermont, citizens can carry a firearm without getting permission . . . without paying a fee . . . or without going through any kind of government-imposed waiting period. And yet for ten years in a row, Vermont has remained one of the top-five, safest states in the union—having three times received the "Safest State Award." <a href="http://www.gunowners.org/fs0404.htm" rel="nofollow">GOA Fact Sheet</a></blockquote> Just gotta make you wonder if they are the happiest also!

Vermont: one of the safest five states in the country. In Vermont, citizens can carry a firearm without getting permission . . . without paying a fee . . . or without going through any kind of government-imposed waiting period. And yet for ten years in a row, Vermont has remained one of the top-five, safest states in the union—having three times received the “Safest State Award.” GOA Fact Sheet

Just gotta make you wonder if they are the happiest also!

]]> By: Linoge http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/04/19/bitterness/comment-page-1/#comment-199049 Linoge Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:10:02 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=15399#comment-199049 hoplophobev("But... but... but... Obama is so in-touch with the average American, he has to be right! And guns are evil! How can you be happy if you own the very incarnation of evil!? And guns kill people! Dead people can't be happy! And... *head explodes*"); Well, that was entertaining. hoplophobev(“But… but… but… Obama is so in-touch with the average American, he has to be right! And guns are evil! How can you be happy if you own the very incarnation of evil!? And guns kill people! Dead people can’t be happy! And… *head explodes*”);

Well, that was entertaining.

]]> By: Michael Hawkins http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/04/19/bitterness/comment-page-1/#comment-199048 Michael Hawkins Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:27:18 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=15399#comment-199048 Duh, Gun woners are statistically happier, 'cause the depressed ones just kill thmeselves! Don't you know anything? :p I'm but jesting of course, which doesn't mean to say a gun control activist won't throw that at you. Duh,
Gun woners are statistically happier, ’cause the depressed ones just kill thmeselves!
Don’t you know anything? :p

I’m but jesting of course, which doesn’t mean to say a gun control activist won’t throw that at you.

]]> By: Kristopher http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/04/19/bitterness/comment-page-1/#comment-199047 Kristopher Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:25:33 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=15399#comment-199047 That 2006 survey is probably wrong. That 34% does not include the high percentage of gun owners who responded to the first 30 seconds of the survey by telling them to mind their own business and then hanging up. That particular group will have a high percentage of gun owners. That 2006 survey is probably wrong.

That 34% does not include the high percentage of gun owners who responded to the first 30 seconds of the survey by telling them to mind their own business and then hanging up.

That particular group will have a high percentage of gun owners.

]]> By: Robb Allen http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/04/19/bitterness/comment-page-1/#comment-199044 Robb Allen Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:48:16 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=15399#comment-199044 When my Ko-Tonics upper shows up (hopefully next week), I'll have enough happiness to share. When my Ko-Tonics upper shows up (hopefully next week), I’ll have enough happiness to share.

]]> By: anon http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/04/19/bitterness/comment-page-1/#comment-199042 anon Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:37:18 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=15399#comment-199042 I want to hear the Heller decision before I tell you how happy I am... I want to hear the Heller decision before I tell you how happy I am…

]]> By: straightarrrow http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/04/19/bitterness/comment-page-1/#comment-199041 straightarrrow Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:51:41 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=15399#comment-199041 Hell, I'm ecstatic. Hell, I’m ecstatic.

]]> By: Metulj http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/04/19/bitterness/comment-page-1/#comment-199040 Metulj Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:01:22 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=15399#comment-199040 Thinking more about what I said before about the red pen. It's an ok statement if you drop "plausible." Thinking more about what I said before about the red pen. It’s an ok statement if you drop “plausible.”

]]> By: Metulj http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/04/19/bitterness/comment-page-1/#comment-199039 Metulj Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:54:23 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=15399#comment-199039 Very interesting, though this: "One plausible reason is a sense of self-reliance, in terms of self-defense or even in terms of the ability to hunt their own dinner." Is completely speculative and would get the knife (or the red pen) if he said the same thing in a scholarly journal, which is why he, an AEI shill, says it in a newspaper. Very interesting, though this:

“One plausible reason is a sense of self-reliance, in terms of self-defense or even in terms of the ability to hunt their own dinner.”

Is completely speculative and would get the knife (or the red pen) if he said the same thing in a scholarly journal, which is why he, an AEI shill, says it in a newspaper.

]]> By: nk http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/04/19/bitterness/comment-page-1/#comment-199036 nk Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:23:16 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=15399#comment-199036 <a href="http://krites.blogspot.com/2008/04/that-is-gun-in-your-pocket-and-you-are.html" rel="nofollow">Trackback?</a> Trackback?

]]> By: nk http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/04/19/bitterness/comment-page-1/#comment-199035 nk Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:10:56 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=15399#comment-199035 Intuitively it makes sense, and my experience is that it is true. Intuitively it makes sense, and my experience is that it is true.

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