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Sheep-Speak list

LaVere

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I OC'd at a graduation party on Saturday, it was friends of ours daughter. I showed up late and boy did people notice, no one said anything though. After I left a few people went up to my wife asking "is that your husband? why does he carry a gun? you know people could hit him in the head and take it", typical sheep-speak. She told me that she explainedOC and that I was the safest one there. From what I was told she did quite the job of explaining, showed them the light.



I read this today and found it interesting that is the term Sheep-Speak. Maybe we could start a list of them and then compile them in one post.



1. why does he carry a gun? you know people could hit him in the head and take it",
 

autosurgeon

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2. Don't you know that it makes you a target??? You had better watch your back when you go home and see who is following you!!!

that one makes me laugh:lol: The bg had better watch his front if he is following an armed person to there home too attack them:what: Lest his front get several extra holes!!
 

EM87

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I like this. We should have a stickied list of these common arguments from the antis with our own counter arguments. I believe that it would be beneficial in helping people understand our way of thinking.
 

GoldCoaster

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maahes wrote:
"Only police should carry guns, they have training, regular people cant shoot like police can"
Haha that's a good one..

"No he buys his own ammunition so he hits what he shoots at not spray and pray like the police - he hates waste"
 

Michigander

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1. Banning guns works, which is why New York, DC, & Chicago cops need guns.

2. Washington DC’s low murder rate of 69 per 100,000 is due to strict
gun control, and Indianapolis’ high murder rate of 9 per 100,000 is
due to the lack of gun control.

3. Statistics showing high murder rates justify gun control but
statistics showing increasing murder rates after gun control are “just
statistics.”

4. The Brady Bill and the Assault Weapons Ban, both of which went into
effect in 1994 are responsible for the decrease in violent crime
rates, which have been declining since 1991.

5. We must get rid of guns because a deranged lunatic may go on a
shooting spree at any time and anyone who would own a gun out of fear
of such a lunatic is paranoid.

6. The more helpless you are the safer you are from criminals.

7. An intruder will be incapacitated by tear gas or oven spray, but if
shot with a .357 Magnum will get angry and kill you.

8. A woman raped and strangled is morally superior to a woman with a
smoking gun and a dead rapist at her feet.

9. When confronted by violent criminals, you should “put up no defense
- give them what they want, or run” (Handgun Control Inc. Chairman
Pete Shields, Guns Don’t Die - People Do, 1981, p. 125).

10. The New England Journal of Medicine is filled with expert advice
about guns; just like Guns & Ammo has some excellent treatises on
heart surgery.

11. One should consult an automotive engineer for safer seatbelts, a
civil engineer for a better bridge, a surgeon for internal medicine, a
computer programmer for hard drive problems, and Sarah Brady for
firearms expertise.

12. The 2nd Amendment, ratified in 1787, refers to the National Guard,
which was created 130 years later, in 1917.

13. The National Guard, federally funded, with bases on federal land,
using federally-owned weapons, vehicles, buildings and uniforms,
punishing trespassers under federal law, is a “state” militia.

14. These phrases: “right of the people peaceably to assemble,” “right
of the people to be secure in their homes,” “enumerations herein of
certain rights shall not be construed to disparage others retained by
the people,” and “The powers not delegated herein are reserved to the
states respectively, and to the people” all refer to individuals, but
“the right of the people to keep and bear arms” refers to the state.

15. “The Constitution is strong and will never change.” But we should
ban and seize all guns thereby violating the 2nd, 4th, and 5th
Amendments to that Constitution.

16. Rifles and handguns aren’t necessary to national defense! Of
course, the army has hundreds of thousands of them.

17. Private citizens shouldn’t have handguns, because they aren’t
“military weapons”, but private citizens shouldn’t have “assault
rifles”, because they are military weapons.

18. In spite of waiting periods, background checks, fingerprinting,
government forms, etc., guns today are too readily available, which is
responsible for recent school shootings. In the 1940’s, 1950’s and
1960’s, anyone could buy guns at hardware stores, army surplus stores,
gas stations, variety stores, Sears mail order, no waiting, no
background check, no fingerprints, no government forms and there were
no school shootings.

19. The NRA’s attempt to run a “don’t touch” campaign about kids
handling guns is propaganda, but the anti-gun lobby’s attempt to run a
“don’t touch” campaign is responsible social activity.

20. Guns are so complex that special training is necessary to use them
properly, and so simple to use that they make murder easy.

21. A handgun, with up to 4 controls, is far too complex for the
typical adult to learn to use, as opposed to an automobile that only
has 20.

22. Women are just as intelligent and capable as men but a woman with
a gun is “an accident waiting to happen” and gun makers’
advertisements aimed at women are “preying on their fears.”

23. Ordinary people in the presence of guns turn into slaughtering
butchers but revert to normal when the weapon is removed.

24. Guns cause violence, which is why there are so many mass killings
at gun shows.

25. A majority of the population supports gun control, just like a
majority of the population supported owning slaves.

26. Any self-loading small arm can legitimately be considered to be a
“weapon of mass destruction” or an “assault weapon.”

27. Most people can’t be trusted, so we should have laws against guns,
which most people will abide by because they can be trusted.

28. The right of Internet pornographers to exist cannot be questioned
because it is constitutionally protected by the Bill of Rights, but
the use of handguns for self defense is not really protected by the
Bill of Rights.

29. Free speech entitles one to own newspapers, transmitters,
computers, and typewriters, but self- defense only justifies bare
hands.
 

emptypockets

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maahes wrote:
"Only police should carry guns, they have training, regular people cant shoot like police can"
Right . . . and that is why cops will pour 40 - 50 rounds into a bad guys vehicle after a police chase and only hit him 5 times. They are certainly a much better shot.
 

CoonDog

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To continue Michigander's list:

30. The ACLU is good because it uncompromisingly defends certain parts of the Constitution, and the NRA is bad, because it defends other parts of the Constitution.

31. Charlton Heston, a movie actor as president of the NRA is a cheap lunatic who should be ignored, but Michael Douglas, a movie actor as a representative of Handgun Control, Inc. is an ambassador for peace who is entitled to an audience at the UN arms control summit.

32. Police operate with backup within groups, which is why they need larger capacity pistol magazines than do "civilians" who must face criminals alone and therefore need less ammunition.

33. We should ban "Saturday Night Specials" and other inexpensive guns because it's not fair that poor people have access to guns too.

34. Police officers have some special Jedi-like mastery over hand guns that private citizens can never hope to obtain.

35. Private citizens don't need a gun for self-protection because the police are there to protect them even though the Supreme Court says the police are not responsible for their protection.

36. Citizens don't need to carry a gun for personal protection but police chiefs, who are desk-bound administrators who work in a building filled with cops, need a gun.

37. "Assault weapons" have no purpose other than to kill large numbers of people. The police need assault weapons. You do not.

38. When Microsoft pressures its distributors to give Microsoft preferential promotion, that's bad; but when the Federal government pressures cities to buy guns only from Smith & Wesson, that's good.

39. Trigger locks do not interfere with the ability to use a gun for defensive purposes, which is why you see police officers with one on their duty weapon.

40. Handgun Control, Inc. says they want to "keep guns out of the wrong hands." Guess what? You have the wrong hands.

http://www.kc3.com/editorial/40reasons.htm
 
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