Maine Town Rejects Mandatory Gun Ownership

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A similar measure was being considered in another Maine town (selectmen decided against putting it on the ballot) while a town in Georgia is also considering this.


http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/12/17280738-residents-of-byron-maine-reject-bid-to-force-people-to-own-guns#comments

[GNTLGNT]

...mandatory ownership is just as nutso as banning all guns...

[Moderator]

My partner and I had a somewhat heated debate about this type of local mandate last week. He's definitely more of a conservative, or perhaps libertarian, than I (bet that's a surprise, huh? ;-D) sort of a James Carville/Mary Matalin couple. He was coming at it strictly from the POV of the government (even local) being more involved in our daily lives with what we can and can't do--civil liberties being eroded, etc. whereas I was going with the cold day in hell they'd tell me I had to have a gun. Civil disobedience isn't something I've done much of but that's where I'd draw the line. The only way you'd get me to have a gun is if you put it into my cold, dead hands. :22_002:

[fljoe0]

My partner and I had a somewhat heated debate about this type of local mandate last week. He's definitely more of a conservative, or perhaps libertarian, than I (bet that's a surprise, huh? ;-D) sort of a James Carville/Mary Matalin couple. He was coming at it strictly from the POV of the government (even local) being more involved in our daily lives with what we can and can't do--civil liberties being eroded, etc. whereas I was going with the cold day in hell they'd tell me I had to have a gun. Civil disobedience isn't something I've done much of but that's where I'd draw the line. The only way you'd get me to have a gun is if you put it into my cold, dead hands. :22_002:

If the law passed, I was going to buy you a glock with a safety just so you could be in compliance. :biggrin2:

[Moderator]

My partner has a concealed carry permit and from the somewhat guilty looks/body language I was picking up on, I suspect we may already be in compliance. :glare:

[PatInTheHat]

There's some seriously stupid fother muckers out there in a parallel universe not so far away, far out there, butt not very far:facepalm:.
Hey but then again, ya know my old childhood state of Ohio, it used to have a mandatory arms carry law for every able bodied man woman and child to be actively packin' heat, of course it was still a territory back then, and the Shawnee Indians had quite the propensity to be doin' mucho awful nasty painful type things to the more pigmentally challenged settlers who were runnin' around all willy nilly stealin' all their bestest stuff.
There was also a law that said when ya got sprung from a pokey you were to be given a mount and a firearm:oo:..yeah I know, who couldn't resist knockin' over a liquor store huh, you know, maybe just every now & again, so hell yeah I say, let's all put that one back on the law dawg books again too:biggrin2:!
Can't wait for that Salem Mass type stuff to heat back up, yeah goin' back to that old timey rock & roll a suspected witch fun for the holy family.
Why it'$ gonna be freakin' great, and a gold mine, I mean gee whiz have I got me a big ol' ba$ket o' biggy buckle$ & gianormou$ hat$ to hawk, and a line on $ome $imply $tunning $carlet letter$ in all the hotte$t hippe$t font$, but fir$t a ham $andwich on $ome of that deeeeliciou$ ergot of rye, I mean I got$ to get me a trippin' like them gonzo for gun$ guy$ $o a$ to $ee all the future potential capitali$tic po$$ibilitie$:geek:.

[Shasta]

My partner and I had a somewhat heated debate about this type of local mandate last week. He's definitely more of a conservative, or perhaps libertarian, than I (bet that's a surprise, huh? ;-D) sort of a James Carville/Mary Matalin couple. He was coming at it strictly from the POV of the government (even local) being more involved in our daily lives with what we can and can't do--civil liberties being eroded, etc. whereas I was going with the cold day in hell they'd tell me I had to have a gun. Civil disobedience isn't something I've done much of but that's where I'd draw the line. The only way you'd get me to have a gun is if you put it into my cold, dead hands. :22_002:

But isn't the joy of being a Libertarian that you think no one should be able to tell you what to do on either side?

[exzel]

My partner and I had a somewhat heated debate about this type of local mandate last week. He's definitely more of a conservative, or perhaps libertarian, than I (bet that's a surprise, huh? ;-D) sort of a James Carville/Mary Matalin couple.

:eek2:

“Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.”

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If the law passed, I was going to buy you a glock with a safety just so you could be in compliance. :biggrin2:

Or we could just make her one out of a Pop Tart.............=D

[GNTLGNT]

Or we could just make her one out of a Pop Tart.............=D

...then you could have your Glock and eat it too...

[Out of Order]

...then you could have your Glock and eat it too...


:rofl: :clap: :rofl:

[Lily Sawyer]

There's some seriously stupid fother muckers out there in a parallel universe not so far away, far out there, butt not very far:facepalm:.

I thought we were over with the stoopidest of them by the time Valley Girls were no longer on the radar...but Valley Girls, like, omigod, BRED (I should know; I plastered enough butts with the words "Juicy Couture" during my stint as a fashion peddler in Sherman Oaks; they're alive and still think neon colors are totally tubular).....and so the stupidity continues. The Valley sometimes seemed like a parallel universe but we were all one and the same, to my undying horror. I couldn't get out of retail fast enough after Life In the Lite Ages.

So.....it would appear there was a suspicious migration of Stoopids to the eastern reaches of the U.S.

Ms. Moddy, I hope there aren't any fortysomethings running around Bangor loading up on rad guns or totally awesome ammo. I mean, that would be, like, grody to the max.

- Just call me "Buffy". *snort*

[exzel]

Just think of all the holiday gift giving options that would open up, in order to remain in compliance:

His (yummm BBQ)

http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4745802338994578&pid=15.1


Hers

http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4735640485692733&pid=15.1

[PatInTheHat]

I thought we were over with the stoopidest of them by the time Valley Girls were no longer on the radar...but Valley Girls, like, omigod, BRED (I should know; I plastered enough butts with the words "Juicy Couture" during my stint as a fashion peddler in Sherman Oaks; they're alive and still think neon colors are totally tubular).....and so the stupidity continues. The Valley sometimes seemed like a parallel universe but we were all one and the same, to my undying horror. I couldn't get out of retail fast enough after Life In the Lite Ages.

So.....it would appear there was a suspicious migration of Stoopids to the eastern reaches of the U.S.

Ms. Moddy, I hope there aren't any fortysomethings running around Bangor loading up on rad guns or totally awesome ammo. I mean, that would be, like, grody to the max.

- Just call me "Buffy". *snort*
Well Buff, I do believe it's all on what's called the, Just To Be Contrary, planet (in the Paranoia For Profit System of that particularly peculiar universe) :wink2:...and ya know, that might sound like it just could maybe a funderfully funtastic place to visit, you know, for justa little fun in it's lack of sun and the exciting confusion of all kinds of flavors:oo:..yeah yeah okay, if it wasn't for that Stoopid thang:biggrin2:.

[Out of Order]

Just think of all the holiday gift giving options that would open up, in order to remain in compliance:

His (yummm BBQ)

http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4745802338994578&pid=15.1


Hers

http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4735640485692733&pid=15.1




That first pic gives new meaning to firing up the grill...........

[Moderator]

Just think of all the holiday gift giving options that would open up, in order to remain in compliance:

His (yummm BBQ)

http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4745802338994578&pid=15.1


Hers

http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4735640485692733&pid=15.1


Ummm...no.

[Out of Order]

If I'm seeing that right "Hers" is a cell phone?

Imagine the looks you would get holding that up to your ear to talk....

[Moderator]

And all the fun rides you might get from being blue-papered as being a danger to yourself or others when people mistake that you're about to commit suicide with a gun pointed at your head.

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And all the fun rides you might get from being blue-papered as being a danger to yourself or others when people mistake that you're about to commit suicide with a gun pointed at your head.


I just had a worse thought.............imagine if you had to talk into the muzzle end of that thing? :eek2:

[GNTLGNT]

I just had a worse thought.............imagine if you had to talk into the muzzle end of that thing? :eek2:

...you mean you.....don't???....:still_dreaming:

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...you mean you.....don't???....:still_dreaming:


I know I don't..........I'm such an old relic I don't even own a cell phone.......LOL

[Lily Sawyer]

I know I don't..........I'm such an old relic I don't even own a cell phone.......LOL

Neither do I.
Come live with me and be my love....in the La Brea Tar Pits.

[kingricefan]

Marsha, I bet there are some very lively conversations at your dinner table, eh? :51_002:

[kingricefan]

No one, I said NO ONE will ever force me to own a firearm! :angry_002:

[Moderator]

Marsha, I bet there are some very lively conversations at your dinner table, eh? :51_002:


On occasion, but he's learned a well-placed "yes, dear, you're absolutely right" has its benefits. It's all in the timing, though, or it can just lead to a different argument. :smile:

[exzel]

Ahh the “Yes Dear”… sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t

Blah blah blah blah blah

“Yes Dear”

Blah blah blah blah

“Yes Dear”

You’re just “Yes Dearing” me, aren’t you?

“Yes Dear”

Idiot!

“Yes Dear”

(thinking to myself… “What did she say?”)

[Moderator]

Exactly my point about being well-placed. ;-D

[kingricefan]

On occasion, but he's learned a well-placed "yes, dear, you're absolutely right" has its benefits. It's all in the timing, though, or it can just lead to a different argument. :smile:

When will men ever learn that women are always right???????

[GNTLGNT]

On occasion, but he's learned a well-placed "yes, dear, you're absolutely right" has its benefits. It's all in the timing, though, or it can just lead to a different argument. :smile:

...in any encounter with female of the species, the knuckle dragging Homo Dumbassness is ALWAYS best served by striving for proper timing and subservient groveling...

[guido tkp]

heck !! this is the most fun i've had with guns in some time ;;D