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YAY!! Walmart steps up!

iguanaman said:
Many Republicans are elite snobs with guns. I'm surprised you don't know that. It is not opposing guns that is destroying the middle class it is Republicans.
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Typical leftwing nonsense. Many rich democrats own guns but they don't want blacks or lower class whites from having guns.
 
TurtleDude said:
when you ask a question that silly, how can anyone take your comments on firearms issues seriously?

every week from May to October, I and about 100 other people in Greater Cincinnati, shoot in a steel league. Once a month, in four or five ranges in SW OHIO, have a GLOCK league where you use GLOCK brand firearms. I think in the last one I shot in, there were about 120 entries. One gun club, has at least one pistol event each weekend-might be steel, USPSA, bowling pin, or bullseye shooting. and there are at least 100 people a week that use the plinking range

at the club where I normally shoot, we have steel matches friday nights-Wed Morning and Afternoon Bullseye match leagues weekly and once a month a falling plates league. According to the range officer (at our range you have to sign in and tell the RO which range (skeet, trap, rifle, pistol, archery, or plinking) you are using, says that about 500 different members a month use the pistol range either on their own or at the various scheduled events--and you don't have to be a member to shoot the steel league.

Now that is just three different clubs or ranges I shoot at. Multiply that by the hundreds of other clubs in Ohio and nearby Kentucky and Indiana (there are 8 public indoor ranges in greater Cincinnati, TargetWorld, Point Blanc East and West, Ready Line, Premier Shooting , Hammer Down and one up in Lebanon that I cannot recall right now). And all of them have various pistol activities. Then there are at least 6 private or quasi public outdoor ranges in the area as well
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LOL The chances of using a pistol in competition are even less than shooting a bad guy. Maybe 1% of gun owners enter competitions. I have no problem with that as long as you keep you weapon at the range. There is no reason to have a gun in the home when 99 times out of 100 it will be used to shoot yourself, be used in a felony or accidentally or deliberately shooting a family member.
 
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iguanaman said:
LOL The chances of using a pistol in competition are even less than shooting a bad guy. Maybe 1% of gun owners enter competitions. I have no problem with that as long as you keep you weapon at the range. There is no reason to have a gun in the home when 99 times out of 100 it will be used to shoot yourself, be used in a felony or accidently shooting a family member.
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more idiotic nonsense. and I laugh at someone who continually posts ignorant nonsense telling us what we should do with our pistols.


• Target shooting: number of participants U.S. 2017 | Statista

about 30 million people shot competitively in 2017. Doesn't break down with what type of firearm though. and that most likely doesn't count informal "competitions" on farms or rural areas among families or neighbors.
 
HumblePi said:
Walmart just announced that it's stepping back from gun sales and ammo sales. The story just broke but from what I heard they will no longer sell the 'assault-style' weapons and large ammo clips.


FINALLY
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And they're losing lots of business.
 
DebateChallenge said:
And they're losing lots of business.
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Aw, how sweet of you to be so concerned about poor little Walmart, but I think they're going to be just fine even without the sales of those particular weapons of mass destruction and ammunition for those weapons.
 
iguanaman said:
LOL The chances of using a pistol in competition are even less than shooting a bad guy. Maybe 1% of gun owners enter competitions. I have no problem with that as long as you keep you weapon at the range. There is no reason to have a gun in the home when 99 times out of 100 it will be used to shoot yourself, be used in a felony or accidentally or deliberately shooting a family member.
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This is a really horrible overestimation of the facts. You are trying to say 99% of gun owners will commit suicide or murder? and those are the only reasons to buy a gun? And only 1% of gun owners buy a gun for competition sake? and you want people to take your views on guns seriously? considering only 40,000 people died last year to guns and there are over 100 million gun owners I would have to say your facts are a bit off.
 
HumblePi said:
Aw, how sweet of you to be so concerned about poor little Walmart, but I think they're going to be just fine even without the sales of those particular weapons of mass destruction and ammunition for those weapons.
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I didn't realize that Walmart ever sold

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daeler said:
This is a really horrible overestimation of the facts. You are trying to say 99% of gun owners will commit suicide or murder? and those are the only reasons to buy a gun? And only 1% of gun owners buy a gun for competition sake? and you want people to take your views on guns seriously? considering only 40,000 people died last year to guns and there are over 100 million gun owners I would have to say your facts are a bit off.
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that lie of his was thrashed several times. It is completely detached from reality. When gun banners are dishonest about their motivations for wanting gun bans, the lies that are proffered to support the facade tend to be blatant as well
 
HumblePi said:
Walmart just announced that it's stepping back from gun sales and ammo sales. The story just broke but from what I heard they will no longer sell the 'assault-style' weapons and large ammo clips.


FINALLY
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If it was innocent lives they cared about they'd shut down their auto department. It supports CO2 pollution, drunk and distracted driving, kills more than guns ever will. Oh that's right, this isn't about saving lives...
 
TurtleDude said:
I didn't realize that Walmart ever sold

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They don't. Is your own personal definition of 'weapon of mass destruction' so narrow-minded, so ignorant and short-sighted that you don't realize that semi-automatic weapons are considered a 'weapon of mass destruction' ?
 
HumblePi said:
They don't. Is your own personal definition of 'weapon of mass destruction' so narrow, so ignorant and short-sighted that you don't realize that semi-automatic weapons are considered a 'weapon of mass destruction' ?
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No one with any degree of honesty would call a semi auto rifle a weapon of mass destruction. There actually is a US statute that enhances federal sentences for those who use such things-a semi auto rifle doesn't qualify. The only people who call semi auto rifles "weapons of mass destruction" tend to be anti gun hysterics who are well known in using loaded factually bereft terms to try to demonize the things they want to ban. A real WMD is one that kills dozens or more people with one use. At "best" you may kill two people with one use of a semi auto rifle
 
HumblePi said:
They don't. Is your own personal definition of 'weapon of mass destruction' so narrow-minded, so ignorant and short-sighted that you don't realize that semi-automatic weapons are considered a 'weapon of mass destruction' ?
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There is only a very narrow group that would consider semi-auto weapons to be a WMD. Most people when you think of a WMD you are talking about things that can kill 10s of thousands of people in one attack.
 
TurtleDude said:
No one with any degree of honesty would call a semi auto rifle a weapon of mass destruction. There actually is a US statute that enhances federal sentences for those who use such things-a semi auto rifle doesn't qualify. The only people who call semi auto rifles "weapons of mass destruction" tend to be anti gun hysterics who are well known in using loaded factually bereft terms to try to demonize the things they want to ban. A real WMD is one that kills dozens or more people with one use. At "best" you may kill two people with one use of a semi auto rifle
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20 people murdered in a matter of minutes. That's mass destruction no matter how you slice it.
 
daeler said:
This is a really horrible overestimation of the facts. You are trying to say 99% of gun owners will commit suicide or murder? and those are the only reasons to buy a gun? And only 1% of gun owners buy a gun for competition sake? and you want people to take your views on guns seriously? considering only 40,000 people died last year to guns and there are over 100 million gun owners I would have to say your facts are a bit off.
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I am saying that 99% of "home" gun owners who actually USE their guns use it to commit suicide or to commit a felony. There is about a 1% chance they will use their gun to defend themselves from an intruder. Most home gun owners never use their guns for any purpose but if they do the statistics are quite clear. Remember what the supposed purpose of owning a gun is and how that differs from reality. Do you really want a handgun that is far more likely to kill you or a family member than any other weapon in your nightstand? If you want to shoot in competition there are lockers you can use to keep your weapon at the range it you are smart. There is no reason to bring it home since it increases your odds of an untimely death.
 
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HumblePi said:
20 people murdered in a matter of minutes. That's mass destruction no matter how you slice it.
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nope and you are lying. Your silly definition of WMD is nothing more than anti gun drivel that has no basis in fact, international law or US Code.
 
iguanaman said:
I am saying that 99% of "home" gun owners who actually USE their guns use it to commit suicide or to commit a felony. There is about a 1% chance they will use their gun to defend themselves from an intruder. Most home gun owners never use their guns for any purpose but if they do the statistics are quite clear. Remember what the supposed purpose of owning a gun is and how that differs from reality. Do you really want a handgun that is far more likely to kill you or a family member than any other weapon in your nightstand? If you want to shoot in competition there are lockers you can use to keep your weapon at the range it you are smart. There is no reason to bring it home since it increases your odds of an untimely death.
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your disinformation is well known. If you don't trust yourself with a gun in your home, don't have one. But millions of violent crimes have been stopped by homeowners being armed. And let's stop the charade. Your anti gun positions-as set forth in your posts-are not motivated by worrying someone else might commit suicide. Your posts establish that you have a political dislike of gun rights advocates and that is what motivates your constantly erroneous or dishonest claims about firearms ownership
 
HumblePi said:
20 people murdered in a matter of minutes. That's mass destruction no matter how you slice it.
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Weapons of Wars — WoWs — don’t ever expect even ONE show of empathy for those Children slaughtered by their WoWs
 
HumblePi said:
They don't. Is your own personal definition of 'weapon of mass destruction' so narrow-minded, so ignorant and short-sighted that you don't realize that semi-automatic weapons are considered a 'weapon of mass destruction' ?
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Heres the funny part. Wal Mart is playing a political game and you are falling for it. Wal Mart still sells weapons. Wal Mart still sells ammunition. WalMart committed to stop...after current stores of ammunition and contracts have expired. And when they do stop selling guns they will still sell shotguns, still sell rifles,still sell guns that dont look scary but have the capability of killing people as easily as an AR.

I wonder...have you started shopping at WalMart again or are you one of those angry leftists that hates the corporate WalMart and their maltreatment of their employees but still shop there anyway.
 
HumblePi said:
They don't. Is your own personal definition of 'weapon of mass destruction' so narrow-minded, so ignorant and short-sighted that you don't realize that semi-automatic weapons are considered a 'weapon of mass destruction' ?
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If that's so, gasoline can be a weapon of mass destruction.
 
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