Interesting fact about DU

[Renew Deal]

Pro Guns, Anti-PETA

:think:

[ogneopasno]

1. That's why I'm here.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. Not me

I think PETA should be given guns to go after the NRA.

[spanone]

34. hehehehe....

:thumbsup: :hi:

[stillcool]

3. anti-human too

[The Straight Story]

6. Indeed - and even when all humans are gone the earth is still doomed

:)

[mmonk]

4. Aren't you generalizing?

[Renew Deal]

8. Not really

Both items have been polled over and over. It keeps coming up that way for as long as I've been here (5+ years).

[mmonk]

12. Missed them.

I'm neither pro nor anti gun, just common sense. PETA can be little extreme sometimes with all the current issues we are dealing with.

[The Straight Story]

5. Anti the way peta does some things and some of their stances/ideals

Pro freedom to own a scary gun, pro freedom to be able to decide if we want to go to bar that does not allow smoking, or one that does, freedom to go to a movie theater that allows alcohol sales or one that doesn't.

Basically REAL pro choice.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

19. Pro Humane Society, anti-PETA for me.

Similarly, pro-freedom to own guns, anti-NRA.

[tosh]

21. Same here.

[Still Sensible]

27. Completely agree

I support the right to own firearms and am appalled at most knee-jerk reactions from NRA when any common sense proposal is mentioned (and yes I admit many gun control proposals are not sensible).

And I certainly do not condone mistreatment of animal and fully support the humane societies. I don't like PETA really for two reasons. First, they don't seem to understand that humans are omnivores; and second, their tactics frequently bother me.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

29. It's not just that I don't like PETA.

It's that I actually think they're hurting their own cause by continually pulling idiotic stunts. I know plenty of people - good liberals that support animal rights - that won't even really talk about their positions with other people simply because they don't want to get labeled a PETA supporter. Or, just as bad, they have to sidetrack any valid points they have with a repudiation of PETA and their tactics.

They've become so toxic that it becomes difficult to defend their core principles.

[L0oniX]

37. The rumor of taxing bullets has caused every Walmart in Tampa bay area to be out of 9mm ammo.

I'm serious ...I bought the last 3 boxes of Luger 9mm at one super store after calling everyone of them in Tampa bay.

[Sandrine for you]

7. What a beautifully bird !! Shit where's my gun ??? Never have-it

when we should.

[Renew Deal]

9. lol

:rofl:

[Sandrine for you]

33. I like the PETA publicities, and respect your action.

But I can't say that I'm really in the PETA point of view. I eat some beef for diner, sorry.I don't like guns, and the constitutional reason apart, I just don't understand why the american people are so obsess for their guns.

[ieoeja]

23. Reminds me of the first time I went deer hunting.

I spent a lot of time in the woods, and knew a spot the deer moved through at a certain time of the day. So when hunting season came around I loaded up the rifle and snuck up on the deer (sitting in a tree stand is not hunting**). Sighted in.

Then realized that I had absolutely no interest in killing the damn things.

So I love "hunting", but have no interest in "killing". Hating the taste of venison takes away the food motive as well.


**When you're hunting for your socks, do you lie in ambush***? When you're hunting for a job, do you hope someone shows up at the door with an offer? No! Hunting means getting out and actively tracking down whatever it is you want. Sitting in a tree hoping a deer wanders by is ambushing and killing, not hunting and killing.

***Actually, sometimes I do. I have become extremely lazy in my middle age. I figure enough mold will grow on the sock eventually to animate it. Evolution works slowly, but I am patient.

[ipfilter]

25. But, you are supposed to kill

the deer to keep them from starving. At least that's what all the hunters around here tell me.

[ieoeja]

31. I imagine sometimes and in some places that would be true.

While there is certainly no shortage of deer where I grew up, and they are pests and mildly destructive of crops, I have never seen any starving deers down there.

[onehandle]

10. I don't like either.

Ok, I do like guns in movies. "Dirty Harry" was awesome. And the train station scene in "The Untouchables" was amazing.

And I do like naked women, so PETA has that going for them.

...let's call the whole thing off.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

11. We're pro-constitution.

And anti-whackjob.

Well, at least most of us.

Not the whackjobs.

[YOY]

15. Damn right!

n.t.

[Mari333]

13. reverse it for me. nt

[Waiting For Everyman]

14. Also pro-bank, anti-labor.

Go figure.

[YOY]

18. Haven't seen that one...but I have seen the OP's point.

n/t

[Stinky The Clown]

16. You're right - Arm PETA. Give them a mirror. With a Bullseye on it

[jpak]

17. and anti-environment and pro global warming deniers too

:rofl:

[slackmaster]

20. Guns are inanimate objects - PETA kills thousands of animals every year

It's about the animals.

BTW - DU isn't so much pro-gun as pro-choice on guns, IMO.

[Jackpine Radical]

22. Anti-PETA? Not me.

I have nothing against People Eating Tasty Animals.

[G_j]

24. I can't generalize, but

I have seen lots of pro-taser, pro-death penalty, pro-trying children as adults,..... etc.
I suppose you call it the law and order crowd

[Brazenly Liberal]

26. It would be more ineresting if it was true

This OP is serious flamebait, but I'll bite. One and done, though.

Given all the heated discussion that goes on here on almost any topic raised, some people might be surprised to learn that a lot of folks really do choose their battles. I am not pro guns, but I don't believe I've ever posted anything either way on the subject. The reason is I choose my battles. I know this is a subject that generates a lot of heat and very little light. Nobody changes anybody else's mind. If it really gets going, it sometimes really gets ugly. I know of cases of serious cyberstalking, RL stalking, even major property damage. (Some weirdos, assumed to be a minority of gun lovers, seem determined to be as violent as it takes to convince the world guns don't mean violence.) And, to be honest, I just don't find it very interesting. There are a whole bunch of others who feel the same way. Just because we don't get involved in the back and forth on gun control doesn't mean we're not here and doesn't say anything about our stance on the issue.

Same thing with PETA - I am vegan, but not pro PETA. There are others who are not pro PETA and, on the other hand, a number of people who ARE very pro PETA who stay out of the debates for the same reason above.

Yes, I see the contradiction in posting in this thread while saying I'm not interested in the subject. :) I was asked to do so by someone who REALLY doesn't want to go into it and said yes. So sue me.

So it might be correct to say it's an interesting fact that the arguments here are weighted in favor of guns and against PETA, but not the people or the site as a whole.

[mod mom]

28. I'm the opposite.

[ThomWV]

30. Another way to say it is Pro Constitutional Rights and Anti manical groups of all sorts

[Upton]

32. Many that are pro gun get their kicks

out of killing animals...thus, it would only make sense that they oppose an animal rights group such as PETA.

[slackmaster]

35. Most gun owners don't hunt

I just collect them, and use them to teach people firearm safety (and how to have fun shooting).

[lukasahero]

36. Ayut, 'bout sums up how I've been feeling here lately

But the lightbulb in my emoticon never quite goes off.

[Truth2Tell]

38. ...

[NeedleCast]

39. That's why I like it

Support of the 2nd amendment and being anti-sexism are progressive causes.