Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumSabattus man angry about gun ban in trailer park
http://www.sunjournal.com/news/lewiston-auburn/0001/11/30/sabattus-man-angry-about-gun-ban-trailer-park/1887175#commentsSABATTUS Ray Carrier has lived at the Oak Hill Trailer Park for the past seven years. Disabled and unable to walk very well, he likes to carry a handgun for safety.
" My biggest worry) is that I will not be able to protect myself," said Carrier, 58.
Daniel Boutin has owned the park for the past 30 years and said he started banning guns from being carried out and around the property years ago for safety.
"I don't want to have to face a gun on my own property," he said. "I've had issues with tenants."
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Gunz in trailer parks - what could go wrong?
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)jpak
(41,780 posts)can you tell us why?
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)Found at the link you gave:
"If a man takes a .22 out and he shoots a coyote eating his cat, I'm not going to evict him for that," Boutin said. "If a man takes his gun out and shoots the tire out of an individual that drove by fast, I'm going to evict him. You can see the difference. But what do I do, do I take a full page and explain this? It's easier to be simple, say 'no guns,' and take it on a case-by-case basis."
Not exactly the nest of half-literate yokels you made it out to be-but then again,
cultural warfare requires ugly stereotypes...
jpak
(41,780 posts)your words - not mine...
DonP
(6,185 posts)Is one reason with a high probability.
Lots of really stupid people fear inanimate objects.
Just like lots of stupid people think crime if up, when it's really at a 30 year low and still dropping.
Or is the goal just to make fun of people in trailer parks from a pathetic elitist POV?
jpak
(41,780 posts)yup
Straw Man
(6,799 posts)yup
Do you do it on purpose, or are you truly that tone deaf?
jpak
(41,780 posts)what?
Straw Man
(6,799 posts)But why people somehow feel that it's more defensible than racism or sexism is a mystery to me.
jpak
(41,780 posts)cuz they own teh gunz - and have small hands...
Straw Man
(6,799 posts)cuz they own teh gunz - and have small hands...
Not for the reasons you mention, but simply by looking at the nature and level of discourse.
beevul
(12,194 posts)Yup.
DonP
(6,185 posts)... and never get around to doing anything in the real world about it.
So, how has your work on repealing concealed carry going for you?
I thought you'd at least have it repealed in at least one state by now. Those repeal petitions still circulating out there?
Share some of your "Activism" success stories, or not.
Of course, you're not just another of those whiny gun control "Keyboard Kommandos", right?
You probably write checks, meet with legislators and go to gun control group meetings all the time, just like all your friends in the Gun Control group do.
jpak
(41,780 posts)DonP
(6,185 posts)Pretty much what we expected.
But on the plus side that pretty much puts you in the top 1 percent for gun control activism. You probably even qualify to be one of the many, many, vanishing hosts for the other "committed" gun control group.
Also helps explain the roaring success that gun control has become and why your words and posts should always be given all the credibility they deserve.
Keep up the good work.
jpak
(41,780 posts)Obama...er....Hillary will take yer gunz....
B afear'd
jpak
(41,780 posts)DonP
(6,185 posts)And starting 2 new class groups this week.
But you can "watch" if you want to, they have observation rooms for folks like you.
Hope they never use their gunz - ever.
DonP
(6,185 posts)friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't want you to change; people with attitudes like yours
are exactly the reason gun control is in retreat most places in the US.
You lot are the Eloi of modern politics.
jpak
(41,780 posts)Don't get me wrong...
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)...without ever realizing what was really happening to them.
So yes, calling gun control advocates 'Eloi' is entirely appropriate...
jpak
(41,780 posts)troglodyte cannibals
yup
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)ileus
(15,396 posts)If he doesn't respect your right to self defense tell him to fuck off.
benEzra
(12,148 posts)And there should be an income test before you are allowed to own a gun? The working class need not apply?
FWIW, I used to live in a trailer park, the first year after I graduated from college and while my then-wife was still in school. I suppose we wouldn't have been considered "your kind" then; not enough green in our pockets.