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Showing Original Post only (View all)Let's do this one, too: subsistence hunting. [View all]
There's this other NRA meme running around, that proponents of gun control measures don't know or care about the poor, some of whom hunt to put food on the table.
I'm cool with subsistence hunting. In fact, I think people who demonstrate this need and live near the appropriate hunting grounds should be provided safety instruction and whatever assistance required to be safe, successful hunters who eat what they shoot.
I have no problem exempting subsistence hunters from gun control legislation; I imagine a means test for a gun permit would be more than fair.
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Subsistence hunters are part of the problem, and have to go. | |
2 (7%) |
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Subsistence hunters are not part of the problem. | |
26 (93%) |
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Men have the right to make medical decisions for themselves with their health care providers.
X_Digger
Feb 2013
#22
The right protected by Roe is doctors practicing medicine without state interference, absent..
X_Digger
Feb 2013
#29
Some Constantly-Repeated Gun Militant Talking Points Going Around, As Well. (nt)
Paladin
Feb 2013
#23
Care to actually join the conversation rather than lobbing non-sequiturs from the sideline?
X_Digger
Feb 2013
#46
so is shooting on public AND private land.so all these poor peeps have their own ranches to hunt on?
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#42
So you agree.. you don't have to justify exercising a right. Glad we got that out of the way.
X_Digger
Feb 2013
#61
Thanks for agreeing that means testing / demonstrating a 'need' to exercise a right is bad.
X_Digger
Feb 2013
#72
no, i'm insulting your non-logical morass of 'statements', not you personally.
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#71
*snort* I'm the one who's on topic.. despite you trying to drag it off course. n/t
X_Digger
Feb 2013
#73
You'll find that's about all that poster has - besides the use of "*snort*" as a reply.
apocalypsehow
Feb 2013
#77
involve as a necessary condition of consequence; "solving a problem is predicated on understanding"
X_Digger
Feb 2013
#59
how about just giving up instead? you look more foolish with every post!
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#70
did you also have a hunting license? or was that before they were required? you ate fox?
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#86
what kinda gun did you hunt with? not everyone has 45 acres, for one thing
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#95
Depending on the season and game, anything from a Winchester Model 290 (squirrel, ground hog)..
X_Digger
Feb 2013
#97
so one holds 4 rounds, one holds 5, and the plinker holds 15? and you say 30 is the limit?
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#98
well, there's your problem, right there! why not just make ammo free? like matches?
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#100
they also don't give a crap so much when shot, yet 6 to 10 rounds seeems to be reasonable
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#107
nope.James Paris Lee patented a box magazine, which held rounds stacked vertically,in 1879 and 1882
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#113
An AR-15 in 5.56 is underpowered for most deer, but great for feral hogs. Other AR-* designs, or
X_Digger
Feb 2013
#115
With the price of a hunting license, "subsistence hunters" are generally poachers.
lumberjack_jeff
Feb 2013
#6
Thanks. In Washington, it's $67 for the license and $35 for the "discover (parking) pass" n/t
lumberjack_jeff
Feb 2013
#12
$25 in Texas. Figuring in costs, my deer goes for <$2lb. No more store-bought beef!
Eleanors38
Feb 2013
#106
I've never known anyone who shot 6 deer in one year. In Wa, you're limited to one. n/t
lumberjack_jeff
Feb 2013
#84
I ask b/c you said "exempting subsistence hunters from gun control legislation"
aikoaiko
Feb 2013
#90
I say I would rather limit the type of arms then try to distinguish between people*
jmg257
Feb 2013
#32
It's a tiresome NRA meme, at that: *I* own a 20 gauge shotgun, for crying out loud.
apocalypsehow
Feb 2013
#76
This seems to be a follow-up to the poll asking whether "Grandpa's duck gun" is part of the problem
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#88