Are all hippies anti-gun?

I was just wondering if all the hippies on here are anti-gun or if thats just a stereotype. I love guns and am very active in my shooting communities. I hate it when when people say guns kill people. Guns dont kill people, people kill people. Thats like blaming a fork for making you fat. And if there wasn't guns people would just have knives or other weapons.

 

Guns don't kill people; Muslims kill people.

 

Come on now, Americans kill people, too. English people kill people, African people kill people, Indians, Irish, Italians, Scottish, Australians, Canadians, Hawaiians, Filipinios, Mexicans - they all kill people. People kill people. End of story.

I am not anti-gun, but I don't have a gun at this point in my life. I think that, in some situations, a gun can be handy. If I were to end up living in a dangerous area, for whatever reason, I would sure like a gun for protection.

However, that's me. Not all people use guns for protection. Some people use them to hunt, and others use them to threaten and hurt/kill other people. I am against violance, but without a person pulling the trigger, a gun is nothing but an inanimate object. Pens don't write for themselves, people write with pens. Guns don't kill by themselves, people kill with guns.

 

Hi, I fondly embrace hippy peace, love and harmony with the earth - nature. I do try to avoid confrontations and arguing, however this becomes difficult when people push their ideas politically through the use of force on others. (The lust for for power over others is the root of all evils.)
The world is a violent place because of the politics people are indoctrinated with - which even hippies aren't isolated from - even though we may try to escape, we are also indoctrinated.
We do have to face defending ourselves at times from thieves, rapists, politicians, and other terrorists and I think it is better to live, than allow some sociopathic aggressor to hurt or kill me. It terrifies me when the politicians, who are basically control freaks, try to make us into defenseless unarmed slaves so that we become more controllable.
I choose to defend myself and family - with a gun if necessary.

 

I am a pro-gun, hippy, x-Texan....so there's at least one of us

 

Liberals are for strict gun laws in general. Hippies have a liberal slant to them in general. Hippies in general are against guns.

 

im only anti gun when it comes to morons with guns..

 

Don't forget idiots w/guns... not much diff.

Actually idiots are worse...

 

ohh the 40 somethin early retired wannabe outta the city who buys his first gun for protection because they moved out of the city..

now thats scary...

 

yeh im anti-gun... although im not really a hippie... i just "am"... why am i anti-gun? ... well, why have a gun? materials have actions... microwaves are to cook food, knives are for kitchen use, and guns... well, lmao... i doubt its for cooking or kitchen use.

of course ppl can kill with knives, i could kill you with my barehands if i wanted for christ sake... but the justification of a guns purpose is to kill, wound, and was invented for that purpose... not to shoot cans in your backyard...

so yes. i am anti-gun.

- oh and to whomever said a gun would be handy for protection... stop paying attention to those scary terrorism alert flashes on the TV, and quit fearing... if one decides to come in my house, then be it... a plane could crash right on my body tomorrow, a drunk driver might run into me purposely or hek i dunno... but i know for sure i wont be carrying a gun for protection when that moment comes, i even doubt id have the guts to kill an invader in my house...

while youre keeping your gun in the corner of your room, thinking you'll be using this tool simply for protection, while waiting for this "jackass" to barge in to your house to kidnap your family (which probably will never happen, im still waiting for the boogieman to come out from under my bed, but i dont think he'll ever come out )... people all over the world are using the gun's main purpose, which is to kill, and are taking lives as easily as that every day. every hour. every minute. those actions are obviously linked to human desires... of course people die of natural diseases and catastrophies but theyre natural causes... guns are MADE TO KILL. that is all

guns are kinda like god damn cars... your car can go 200mph or 500mph or a billion... who gives a rats ass if thats above the limit... there is no purpose for it... just like i dont see the purpose in shooting a piece of lead at 1000+mph for the thrill of hunting

 

Anyone care to convert 1000mph to the normal projectile units - fps (feet per second)?
1467fps sound correct?
If so that's only hot magnum handgun (.454 Casull et al) velocity...

 

numbers and statistics are just a small percentage in one's opinion and argument

 

gunz r 4 killerz.

 

I will absolutely, 100% use a gun for protection, if I were to ever get one. I don't live in a dangerous neighborhood, persay, but there have been a few attempted break-ins at my house, and there have been a few successful break-ins in the cars in the driveway, as well as the shed in the backyard. If someone were to come into my house who didn't belong there, I don't think I'd wait for them to hurt my family or me, I'd protect myself in whatever way was necessary, whether it be simply threatening the person with the gun (if they were unarmed, I bet they'd high-tail it out of there) or actually shooting, if necessary.

However, anything can be turned into a weapon. A girl in my neighborhood was beat to death with a hammer last week.

 

Threatening someone is one of the fastest/ sure fire ways I know to end up hurt or worse.
Don't even think of producing a firearm unless you're absolutely prepared to use it.
Yeah it should be loaded.

Remember you're not law enforcement and aren't hamstrung by their shooting policies...

 

ÒThe word liberal, for the defenders of liberty and the rule of law, spread rapidly. The Whig Party in England came to be called the Liberal Party. Today we know the philosophy of John Locke, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, and John Stuart Mill as liberalism.
But around 1900 the term liberal underwent a change. People who supported big government and wanted to limit and control the free market (and control our personal lives) started calling themselves liberals. The economist Joseph Schumpeter noted, ÒAs a supreme, if unintended, compliment, the enemies of private enterprise have thought it wise to appropriate its label.Ó Thus we now refer to the philosophy of individual rights, free markets, and limited government-the philosophy of Locke, Smith, and Jefferson as classical liberalism.
But classical liberalism is not much of a name for a modern political philosophy. Edward H. Crane has proposed that todayÕs heirs of Locke and Smith call themselves Òmarket liberals,Ó retaining the word liberal, with its etymological connection with liberty, but reaffirming the liberal commitment to markets.
The right term for the advocates of civil society and free markets is arguably socialist. Thomas Paine distinguished between society and government, and the libertarian writer Albert Jay Nock summed up all the things that people do voluntarilyÑfor love or charity or profitÑas Òsocial power,Ó which is always being threatened by the encroachment of state power. (The State wants to disarm us and they indoctrinate us to be compliant slaves through government education and also through the counter culture media machine which the government also controls) - So we might say that those who advocate social power are socialists, while those who support state power are statists. But alas, the word socialist, like the word liberal, has been claimed by those who advocate neither civil society nor liberty.Ó
Those who advocate neither civil society nor liberty control the state and our indoctrination through the Federal Reserve System (they print phoney money to fund our enslavement) and CIA terror.Ó
They work very hard at disarming us.

 

Gun's are a machine of killing, but like any machine, there man powered. I want a pistol just for fun, shoot in my back yard or something.

 

Here's a 'units converter' for those of us w/foggy Heads...

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=2758888&linkID=2475712

 

You’re right in that people kill people (if people were not so violent and hateful guns wouldn't be a problem... but then of course we wouldn't need them)
I’m anti-gun. I dislike violence of any kind (and I hate the sight of blood)
In answer to your question I would assume that very few hippies are pro-gun, but there have to be some.

 

on a personal level, i am anti-gun, but as far as other people go, i leave it up to them.