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Gun Control & RKBA

friendly_iconoclast

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12. "It's kind of like blasting exaggerated, cartoonish turbo and blowoff-valve sounds from your car's..

Reply to benEzra (Reply #8)

Tue Jan 27, 2015, 06:15 PM

Jan 2015

...sound system, and about as effective"

Worthy of a chuckle, but I note that one of our resident gun control activists
suggested something similar (and just as stupid):

"She'd have done just as well with a sound-track of gunfire, with less danger to others"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024527951#post5

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This is not a real smart idea. [View all] oneshooter Jan 2015 OP

interesting concept Duckhunter935 Jan 2015 #1

I wonder if this whole thing is a spoof of some sort? n/t MicaelS Jan 2015 #2

That's my guess - sort of like the bonsai kittens from a few years back petronius Jan 2015 #3

Product page has $0.00 for items, all two of them. nt Mnemosyne Jan 2015 #6

Excellent idea, all the swagger without the stigma...I might get one myself.... Fred Sanders Jan 2015 #4

What stigma? eom GGJohn Jan 2015 #5

Well, if it works out as well as your posting history -- Nuclear Unicorn Jan 2015 #7

You're projecting, but I suppose that explains a lot of your stances on the issue. benEzra Jan 2015 #8

"It's kind of like blasting exaggerated, cartoonish turbo and blowoff-valve sounds from your car's.. friendly_iconoclast Jan 2015 #12

Well, when the default position is that gun owners are blueridge3210 Jan 2015 #13

On reflection, this is such a great idea I am buying these things for my whole family! Great OP. Fred Sanders Jan 2015 #9

You are free to needlessly expose yourself to great danger. Straw Man Jan 2015 #10

Indeed, one of Fred's fellow gun control activists might attack them, a la Michael Foster friendly_iconoclast Jan 2015 #11