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1 posted on 05/01/2015 11:58:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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There is a requirement for firearms ownership.

You must LOVE your guns.

You must sleep with them and cuddle them and marry them.

If you do not, Bill Maher, you must surrender them.

Thank you in advance.

2 posted on 05/02/2015 12:06:45 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Jeb Bush makes John McCain look like Barry Goldwater.)
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Maher said, “I do not love my gun. That’s the…problem with these Second Amendment people. They love guns. For them, it’s not just that guns should be available; it’s that they’re seen as awesome.

I am one of those people that loves (and respects) guns.

I love that guns have made it possible for the weak to be free from intimidation by the strong. No longer is might right.

I love that the industrial age has made it possible for even the poorest people to be able to afford portable and reliable self-protection that hand guns make possible.

I love that modern hand guns make it possible for someone with little to no training to be able to defend their own life against an assailant much larger and stronger than themselves.

There is much to love about guns and I do.

3 posted on 05/02/2015 12:11:39 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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I also love the Constitution (even more than Mr Maher loves Free Speech), the Bible, and my family above all others.

Clearly, I am a sick individual.

4 posted on 05/02/2015 12:16:37 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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So I’d like to ask Maher, as a fellow gun owner, to meet people at gun ranges and those who lawfully carry concealed, and as he gets to know them, to ask himself if these gun owners really have a “sickness.”

Shouldn't we be able to assume that Mr. Maher of course took the time and effort to become trained in the handling of the firearms he owns - i.e., that he has, indeed, come into contact with other gun-owners, and that he likewise regularly comes into contact with them when go goes to the firing range to maintain his skills?

Also: I don't understand his criteria for labelling an elevated interest in and even affection for firearms a "sickness." Aren't there people who also think that their, e.g., golf clubs are "awesome," who "go into Chipotle" with their pets, who "go on dates" with their piercings, or "take selfies" with their tractors?

What Mr. Maher is essentially saying is that he does not share such enthusiasms - and that they are thus ipso facto "sicknesses."

Regards,

5 posted on 05/02/2015 12:17:24 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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I wouldn’t say I LOVE my guns, either. Words mean things, and loving an inanimate object doesn’t describe my sentiments towards any of my guns.

Besides, a couple of guns I’ve had turned out to be real pieces of crap.


6 posted on 05/02/2015 12:18:06 AM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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There is little room in a heart filled with self-love for anything (or anyone) else. For the rest of us, we may enjoy the presence of our arms as we deem appropriate.


7 posted on 05/02/2015 12:22:51 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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A liberal can't consider themselves truly committed to the cause
unless their life is one big glaring hypocrisy.
8 posted on 05/02/2015 12:27:58 AM PDT by TigersEye (STONE COLD ZOMBIE SCOURGE)
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gates, bodyguards, dogs

typical liberal Ahole...thinks he is really more important than he really is

what a pustule

9 posted on 05/02/2015 12:32:11 AM PDT by kingattax (a real American would rather die on his feet than live on his knees.)
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this is typical Limousine Liberal Hypocrisy. Not everyone could afford gated mansion with guards, so we need our guns for protection


11 posted on 05/02/2015 12:51:38 AM PDT by 4rcane
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Maher is toilet minded. Does he think people love their toilets because they use them? Smh


12 posted on 05/02/2015 1:01:45 AM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall no)
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When a wacko comes it will be one of his own doped out viewers.


13 posted on 05/02/2015 1:15:08 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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So I have a lot of security measures at my house. If somebody gets into my bedroom, wow, they really did a lot to get there. —ask any fag like barak


16 posted on 05/02/2015 1:20:46 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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If somebody gets into my bedroom, wow, they really did a lot to get there. They got past gates, bodyguards, dogs. If I have to shoot somebody in my bedroom, that was a commando raid on par with the SEALs getting Bin Laden. My gun is my last line of defense.

If "commandos" do that, your little pea shooter isn't going to take them out. Especially if you don't go to the range on a regular basis.
I bet he bought his guns, put them in a drawer at home and hasn't touched them since.

17 posted on 05/02/2015 1:37:41 AM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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I love guns in the sense they are equalizers and force multipliers.

I love guns in the sense that they strike fear in the hearts of wicked and evil men and women Bent to do harm to others.

I love guns in the sense they give the average person far more protection than the police could ever hope to do.

I love guns in the sense that other nations would not dare invade us because free men would make any attempt a pyrrhic victory at best for them.

I love guns in the sense we can fight big brother, if it becomes a grave necessity.


18 posted on 05/02/2015 2:03:34 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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er, if you love your car or just feel you need one, is there an issue with that? Perhaps. The car lover may take care of it better and use and maintain it more carefully. Same, I assume for guns.
And I’d venture to say cars and car licenses are given to people a lot more easily than guns and used a lot more recklessly.
What a weak argument from Bill, the man who insults handicapped children .


20 posted on 05/02/2015 2:05:05 AM PDT by dp0622 (Franky Five Angels: "Look, let's get 'em all -- let's get 'em all now, while we got the muscle.")
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Billy Boy is simply a prick extraordinare. Anything he says should not only be ignored but openly laughed at.


24 posted on 05/02/2015 2:12:10 AM PDT by Desron13
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Hmmm. I can see what he's getting at, but sickness? No. As someone who owned many firearms and belonged to my local gun club (until my unfortunate boating accident) I just couldn't get into the 'gun culture'.

Too many mall ninjas walking around in 5.11 gear arguing about which obscure round is better than the other. Too many good 'ol boys talking about their collection like it was the second coming. Too much affinity for what is ostensibly a tool. I found it boring and cult-like.

YMMV.

25 posted on 05/02/2015 2:34:40 AM PDT by JPX2011
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At one time, I owned guns for hunting and recreation. Now that I’m older, I own them because I don’t know who the “good guys” are anymore.


27 posted on 05/02/2015 2:54:41 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hillary and the Ghosts of Nixons Past. An American Nightmare.)
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Decades ago, I was threatened by union thugs who told me to obey or they would break my arms. They were bigger and stronger than me, and they outnumbered me. I obeyed even though the union thugs were in the wrong. I hated that.

A few years later, I was attacked by street thugs who injured me to try to take my property from me. At that point, I was well-trained in unarmed combat. Even though they outnumbered me, they got hurt far worse than I did. I still got hurt though. I hated that.

Today I own firearms and make sure they are always accessible where legal, including but not limited to my home. That means any thugs who want to hurt me are betting their lives on the outcome. I love that.


29 posted on 05/02/2015 3:14:43 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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Until God sends the right man or the right dog, I’m taking care of myself with the little machine that puts me on equal terms with a bad guy twice my size and twenty times my strength.

I’d call it friendship rather than love. You have a friend in PA: your gun!


31 posted on 05/02/2015 4:08:24 AM PDT by Buttons12
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