A Family Day at Church! NRA Sponsored Shooting Competition!

[me]

I won't be asking permission.

Then I wouldn't be drinking any water afterward 'cause ya might be leakin' just a tad.   

[me]

Doesn't it always seem to be that way?

Shooting and church.

Around here the game dinners are always held in the church of god or the baptist church.

(No room at the catholic church -- gambling going on, ya know.)

They've gotta make money some way ya know.  And, after all, they can go to confession the next day and beg forgiveness for their sins and all will be right with the world once again.   

[Locutus]

Doesn't it always seem to be that way?

Shooting and church.

Around here the game dinners are always held in the church of god or the baptist church.

(No room at the catholic church -- gambling going on, ya know.)

[Exterminator]

Then I wouldn't be drinking any water afterward 'cause ya might be leakin' just a tad.   

LMAO!  Aw, that's hysterical in a naive sort of way!  So you think that the people who have experience with sitting in a tree-stand waiting for some unsuspecting deer to walk up so they can shoot it will have an edge over the people with tactical training?  How would you avoid getting picked off by someone concealed in a tree-line several hundred yards away when you go outside to gather your 'edible plants'?  People are completely delusional about their probability for survival in a worse-case-scenario event despite whether or not they may have guns.

[me]

LMAO!  Aw, that's hysterical in a naive sort of way!  So you think that the people who have experience with sitting in a tree-stand waiting for some unsuspecting deer to walk up so they can shoot it will have an edge over the people with tactical training?  How would you avoid getting picked off by someone concealed in a tree-line several hundred yards away when you go outside to gather your 'edible plants'?  People are completely delusional about their probability for survival in a worse-case-scenario event despite whether or not they may have guns.

That's where teamwork comes in fool. 

[Exterminator]

That's where teamwork comes in fool.

Yeh, I'm the fool...because you think you can, not only spot but engage a sniper who has the benefit of cover and concealment from several hunderd yards away.  Like I said, you're delusional...your entire team could be taken out before you even have the opportunity to figure out the direction from which the bullets are coming.  It happens all of the time in combat...not sure why you think you'd fare better with no training.

[RC]

Great ideal !  This is a good way to have real families come together and have fun.

[me]

Yeh, I'm the fool...because you think you can, not only spot but engage a sniper who has the benefit of cover and concealment from several hunderd yards away.  Like I said, you're delusional...your entire team could be taken out before you even have the opportunity to figure out the direction from which the bullets are coming.  It happens all of the time in combat...not sure why you think you'd fare better with no training.

Uh, and once again you have an overrated opinion of yourself and think no one is as good or as knowledgeable as you.  Yer gonna have to quit stayin' at Holiday Inn's that's only an ad.

[me]

Great ideal !  This is a good way to have real families come together and have fun.

[Exterminator]

Uh, and once again you have an overrated opinion of yourself and think no one is as good or as knowledgeable as you.  Yer gonna have to quit stayin' at Holiday Inn's that's only an ad.

Really, grandma?  You'd better hope it never comes to that because you won't last 72 hours.  What a delusional idiot.

[libby]

My father always had a gun, and he was a hunter -- went once a year on a deer-huntin' trip in Pocahontas County with his brothers. Never did bring a deer home, though. And my mother knew how to use a gun. When I was very young, I stood beside her one dark night as she poked the shotgun out the window and pulled the trigger. (Daddy sometimes worked at night, and she heard somebody moving around outside the window.)The next day, the local doctor told daddy that he treated somebody "who got shot in the leg last night, but the fellow didn't know who did it."

But guns and church?  No way. Oxymoron. And if all other arguments fail, what in the world would Miss Manners think?

[Palehorse]

As I've said before; I got mine a long time ago. Training and weapons. And yet despite that I may not last much longer than some, but longer than most in any case.

I can hunt, I can fish, I can grow food, and when I cannot I can take them when necessary. Until I cannot, at which point I will perish.

And while I can see the validation for increased gun control, I STILL believe it to be nothing more than a band-aid that will do nothing to stem the slaughter. Increased access to mental health care and health care in general is a better step in my mind. But hey, I don't make six figures for a 90 day a year job, or have major corporations paying me under the table either. . .

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But guns and church?  No way. Oxymoron. . .

Humankind has been killin' fer Jeebus for centuries. No reason to change that! 

[me]

As I've said before; I got mine a long time ago. Training and weapons. And yet despite that I may not last much longer than some, but longer than most in any case.

I can hunt, I can fish, I can grow food, and when I cannot I can take them when necessary. Until I cannot, at which point I will perish.

And while I can see the validation for increased gun control, I STILL believe it to be nothing more than a band-aid that will do nothing to stem the slaughter. Increased access to mental health care and health care in general is a better step in my mind. But hey, I don't make six figures for a 90 day a year job, or have major corporations paying me under the table either. . .

Humankind has been killin' fer Jeebus for centuries. No reason to change that! 

I'd bet money on you for sure.