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Where Do You Fit?

ImaginalDisc said:
Well, he obviously needed some remedial gun saftey classes, but I've got to say that he took it well and he kept going with the lesson. That takes some fortitude.
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It looked like he just walked out of the class at the end of the video, and people were leaving. Did the whole thing just disintegrate after his flub?

This is why when Mrs. BPSCG and I got a gun some years ago, we decided not to get a semiautomatic. With the semiautomatic, it seemed there were too many ways for you to accidentally discharge it - you have to remember to have the safety on, and even if you have the ammo magazine removed, you have to remember there can still be a bullet in the chamber. We got a revolver. Unless you have the hammer cocked, which takes a conscious, deliberate act, there is no way on God's green earth to accidentally shoot the thing, because you really have to pull hard on the trigger to shoot.
 
BPSCG said:
It looked like he just walked out of the class at the end of the video, and people were leaving. Did the whole thing just disintegrate after his flub?

This is why when Mrs. BPSCG and I got a gun some years ago, we decided not to get a semiautomatic. With the semiautomatic, it seemed there were too many ways for you to accidentally discharge it - you have to remember to have the safety on, and even if you have the ammo magazine removed, you have to remember there can still be a bullet in the chamber. We got a revolver. Unless you have the hammer cocked, which takes a conscious, deliberate act, there is no way on God's green earth to accidentally shoot the thing, because you really have to pull hard on the trigger to shoot.
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If I ever get a weapon for defense, it'll be a shotgun. I hear they're extremely easy to clean, and hard to accidentally shoot someone with, unless you happen to be hunting tiny, inoffensive, pen raised, ground fowl, and decide to shoot your friend in the face.
 
Liberal. And I own six firearms. Plus a slew of air rifles. :shrug:

I disliked almost all the questions and could have honestly answered many questions at either extreme easily. I vote this quiz makes better horoscope than useful political profile.

BPSCG said:
Unless you have the hammer cocked, which takes a conscious, deliberate act, there is no way on God's green earth to accidentally shoot the thing, because you really have to pull hard on the trigger to shoot.
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I go even further. I have my eye on a single action revolver. The one I tried just fit my hand like a glove.
 
To be fair to the survey, I found a lot of false dichotomies, but the survey didn't actually claim that the two statements were contradictory.

For example, one of the false dichotomies was:


This country should do whatever it takes to protect the environment


vs.

This country has gone too far in its efforts to protect the environment


Suppose that I was someone who believes that it is very, very, important to protect the environment, but that a lot of what we do in the name of environmentalism is actually useless or counterproductive? If presented those two questions on a more common "strongly agree" and "strongly disagree" scale, such a person might strongly agree with both statements.

On this survey, that wasn't an option. You had to say one or the other, which I found myself forced to choose mostly on which one I felt more strongly about, not necessarily which one was "more correct". As noted earlier, the results tend to be pretty good. The questions seem to accurately predict voting tendencies and political philosophies.
 
Meadmaker said:
This country should do whatever it takes to protect the environment


vs.

This country has gone too far in its efforts to protect the environment
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How is this a false dichotomy? If you think we "should do whatever it takes", that's pretty far to one extreme. If you think we've gone too far, that's another. While it's certainly possible to think that the environment has no value at all, that's not part of the modern american politcal spectrum. Even the most rapine industrialist makes at least some lip service to environmental protection.
 
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