Five-year-old boy accidentally shoots, kills sister

[HailGreen28]

Originally Posted by firstdown

You guys need to agree to disagree and stop the name calling.

Your comment has fallen on deaf ears.

At this point, the thread should probably closed. RR and I have made our case, and giantone's helped make it too.

Originally Posted by Giantone

Nope .

Urban Dictionary: gun nut

(snip)- usually used playingly by oneself or by other firearms enthusiasts in this sense. Often associates with people with similar interests.

(snip) - usually used derogatively by non-gun people, particularly those who are scared of firearms.
Me: I keep my AR-15 mags loaded with hollow points for reduced penetration and higher stopping power for riot protection.
Everyone else: You're just another dangerous Second Amendment freak, a raving gun nut.

Gee, and which usage was yours, giantone? Thanks for proving where the name calling started.

Originally Posted by Giantone

gun nut
Web definitions

1. The gun culture is a culture shared by people in the gun politics debate, generally those who advocate preserving gun rights and who are generally against more gun control. ...
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Nut

From your own link, the part you dishonestly left out: (giantone lying again, what a surprise) Bold mine.

"To some gun owners, it is embraced affectionately, such as in the popular outdoors magazine Field and Stream which has a column called "The Gun Nut".[10] However to others it is regarded as a pejorative stereotype cast upon gun owners by anti-gun advocates as a means of implying that they are fanatical, exhibit abnormal behavior, or are a threat to the safety of others.[11][12][13][14][15] The term has additionally been used at times by some law enforcement agencies to describe a profile to categorize criminal suspects.[16][17]"

So yeah, at the point where folks have pretty much stated their case, and giantone's left defending name calling and looking rather foolish doing so as RR points out, I think we're done here.