I am actually In Favor of the Second Amendment. I can't tell you WHY because I don't want to attract the attention of the FBI.

I have noticed that Supposed "GUN NUTS" are watched and their Social Media Posts are used as Evidence to arrest them. There was a Lady Recently in Colorado who they determined that she was 5150... a harm to self and others... because of something she wrote on Facebook. This was at the time of the Columbine Anniversary. The FBI READS THIS STUFF... So does the NSA and The CIA and the DIA and the EIEIO!

I will say that there may come a time that we really need a Militia... Suppose Trump loses the 2020 election and then REFUSES TO LEAVE THE WHITE HOUSE? Just declare himself King... for life... and Junior would be Prince... in a situation like that, it might be very handy to own a gun... Maybe there will be a violent civil war. The Boogaloo... IT COULD HAPPEN. A Violet Overgrow... What if the USA became like Venezuela? or Africa?

I do think we ought to outlaw assault rifles... We already outlawed Machine Guns, Hand Grenades and Bazookas... Once upon a time Assault Rifles were illegal and the Murder Rate in the USA went down. So we know what works... Obviously the NRA is an EVIL organization. They supposedly funneled Russian Money into Trump's Campaign. That's why Maria Butina was thrown in Prison. and Paul Erickson was arrested...

I also oppose arming the Police with Army Surplus Weapons. Often the People who choose Lawn Forcement as a Career are of Below Average Intelligence. Really! Have you actually KNOWN any cops? They are some really strange people. For one thing, they choose to put people in cages... and they choose to enforce ALL THE LAWS even when the laws are Obviously Wrong! You always see Pigs enforcing the Law against Protest Marches... Like During the Vietnam War, millions of people protested and sometimes the Police BEAT UP the Protesters. Obviously the Protesters were RIGHT and the Pigs were WRONG... Sometimes the National Guard battled the Protesters and Four were Killed at Kent State University in Ohio. How do those people feel now that almost everyone has WOKEN UP to the fact that the Vietnam War Was INSANE!

****** (~);-} ******

seachanged

You don't read like a gun nut *at all*, Greg, although I wouldn't mention the words President and gun in the same sentence.

Guys that shoot Lapua 338 magnums,  or 50 caliber BMG cartridge scare me. These are anti-materiel weapons against civil infrastructure or long-range sniper rifles that can kill at half a mile.

Deer hunting is different in the oak savannas of California: you need a longer range gun than on old 30-30 brush rifle, but nobody needs anything bigger than a 30-06.

11m

Gregory Vanderlaan @Gregvan

@seachanged I Oppose Guns and Think They Should All Be Melted... HOWEVER... There May Come A Time When Dictatorship or Monarchy Happens in the USA... I personally DO NOT OWN ANY GUNS... I am Not Afraid of "The Man" Arresting Me For What I Say Online... I am Ready to Go to Prison for FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

18h

seachanged @seachanged

@Gregvan 

Totally agree with your blog post, except for President thing.

I have .. six guns, I guess. I have to count them each time I tell anyone.

When the !@#$% deer are in the yard, I get the 30-30, sneak up on them, check downrange, and pull the trigger: CLICK! (no bullet), to see how I feel about it. Slaughter/butcher is a fuckload of work, but haven't had any good venison in .. years.

Got a pig once that couldn't be eaten: blue fat, from squirrel bait. All wasted work )-:

@seachanged Call me lazy but I get my meat at the Grocery Store... Since I Live in Eureka, There are many Hunters at work... Many Big Truck OFF Road Guys too... It's an Interesting Town with Three Very Different Social Groups. Loggers, Hippies and Indians. The YUROK Tribe is a Major Power Here. HOOPA Too.

seachanged I don't believe that private ownership of guns will help us during a constitutional collapse. In that situation, I think it's far more likely that citizen will turn on fellow citizen, and it won't be the Democrats and liberals who attack and murder the Republicans and fascists. 

I'm glad to be in California, that way.

I'd eat a lot less meat if I had to slaughter and butcher it myself, especially big animals. Grandparents lived on a farm, so I've done a lot of that.

@seachanged  I do not plan to own any guns, ever... I hope The Boogaloo does not happen but... I plan to remain in rural Humboldt County... safe and minding my own business...

@Gregvan 

Yes, not having a gun in the household makes it safer against gun violence (probably because over half of gun deaths are suicides).

Funny you use the word Boogaloo, though. That's apparently (I had to look it up) a euphemism for civil war adopted by the far right, but your politics seem to be refreshingly far left. Where did you first hear that word? Friends? NPR? 
None of my guns are for "protection" against "enemies".

With seachanged

@seachanged I am trying to PREVENT The Boogaloo... The entire idea of Massive Civil War Lead by TrumpNiks and Tea Party Frightens me... However, I Do Support the Violet Overgrow.

Picture of My Home in the Redwood Forest and a Tower of Jewels Plant.

Nov 26, 2018

With Emily Helmut

@Emilyhelmut I Live in Eureka, California near the Oregon Border on the North Coast of California... On the Edge of the Redwood Forest... I sit in my backyard and smoke tobacco in an easy chair looking at the trees every day. No smoking in the house because my Friend wouldn't like that... Here is a picture of my backyard and a Cross at the entrance to Mount Saint Mercy Recovery Center.