Is buying realistic shooters a moral choice?

How do you like your guns? (in games, of course)

  • No play-play guns, please. Can't we all just get along?

    Votes: 3 13.0%

  • Happy middleground: look real, but called something else (e.g. Counter-Strike 1.6)

    Votes: 3 13.0%

  • Completely fictional guns are cool. The more lasers the better (see also: paintball).

    Votes: 4 17.4%

  • The more realistic my toy guns are the better (see also: airsoft)

    Votes: 13 56.5%
  • Total voters
    23
Lyt, I know I'm on your ignore list, but here goes anyway.

Generalizing about 'anti gun monkeys' isn't helpful either. I've been held up in my own house by three gun wielding thugs and don't see how owning a firearm would have prevented that in the slightest, in fact there was a good chance that had I had a weapon they probably would've taken it off me, such was the nature of the attack.

I also have two little boys who are highly inquisitive. I don't want the risk in my house that they may, God forbid, get their hands on a weapon, if I had one. Humans are fallible creatures and as such we are careless, make mistakes etc. I don't want to even risk making that mistake.

So I get that you see the positives about gun ownership etc, I don't.
 
Fivel said:
Lyt, I know I'm on your ignore list, but here goes anyway.

Generalizing about 'anti gun monkeys' isn't helpful either. I've been held up in my own house by three gun wielding thugs and don't see how owning a firearm would have prevented that in the slightest, in fact there was a good chance that had I had a weapon they probably would've taken it off me, such was the nature of the attack.

I also have two little boys who are highly inquisitive. I don't want the risk in my house that they may, God forbid, get their hands on a weapon, if I had one. Humans are fallible creatures and as such we are careless, make mistakes etc. I don't want to even risk making that mistake.

So I get that you see the positives about gun ownership etc, I don't.
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I have removed you...can't always ignore confrontations.

Yes I did generalize, so did everybody else. I get what you are saying, if you are a parent the last thing you want is for your kid to get his hands on your firearm. That's where you have to weigh the positives vs the negatives. What most of the people involved in the argument were guilty of is focusing just on the positives or just on the negatives, which is why I said the discussion wasn't very fruitful.

Many times the gun will save your life, many times it won't. It's just a chance you have to take. There is also a difference in mentality : You, being a family man , will rather avoid a confrontation with lets say a robber, for the safety of your family, and pray they don't come into your room am I right? I ( and sure many others here ) will fight tooth and nail for my own survival and my possessions, I'm not about to let some robber take away something I or my parents worked so hard for, nevermind getting raped or assaulted.

It's again a never ending argument, with no right or wrong ( anti-gun people are wrong the way I see it, but then again I'm wrong the way they see it ) .

What really gets to me is people who think they are safe in their big mansions surrounded by walls and driving in their big cars and relying on security companies to chase the robbers away. I was once walking by a woman who was sitting in her car, as soon as I got close she closed the door and locked it. I was so angry I wanted to smash her window and ask her how safe she felt now. Of course it was some stupid anger, but the whole principal just really gets to me.

What it finally comes down to is chance, or providence . There is a chance you will get killed in a firefight, there is a chance to fend off the intruders. There is a chance you will get raped , there is a chance the intruder may just pass your bedroom .
 
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Lyt said:
There is a guy selling a Hoyt Rampage 2012 Compound Bow for R6000, I'm not sure if he sold it yet, but I can find out.
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Nah, it's okay. I'm actually looking at the real classics; the longbow or recurve. Me and a friend have recently started talking and we want to try and make our own bows, kind of as a hobby, so I'm mostly shopping around so I can have one as an example to base my design on.

It might sound odd for someone to want to make their own bow, but apparently it's not all that hard (just hard to do well) and it would do me good to get a hobby that doesn't involve a keyboard. :p
 
Sorry guys I just had to post this here :)

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