Which would you rather give up, your gun or...

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vega

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drinking alcohol and beer?

Just woke up one morning after drinking heavily the night before and said to myself, "What have I been doing, I got guns in the house and these two does not mix." I secured my guns in the safe before we started drinking but sometimes alcohol just get into someones head.

I made a commitment to myself that I'll never gonna touch the stuff again. Its been two months now since alcohol passed my tongue. I normally get sloshed 4 or 5 times a month. Hopefully I could keep this commitment.

Just thinking, any members out there ready to give up one thing (guns) or the other?

Thanks,

vega
 
Congratulations. They do not mix well.I quit over 20 years ago. As an incentive consider how many guns you can buy with the money saved. After all drinking can be expensive.If you were doing it right you could probably buy a LOT of guns.

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Better days to be,

Ed
 
I agree that they don't mix... Of course anything in excess is abusive. But I'm not worried about the occasional glass of wine with dinner, or that beer after hauling in a load of hay. I personally have cut my drinking way back. I'm lucky if I now have a six pack of beer and a couple of bottles of wine in a month. Having said that, I never touch a gun if I've had anything to drink.



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Richard

The debate is not about guns,
but rather who has the ultimate power to rule,
the People or Government.
RKBA!
 
I almost never drink alcoholic beverages. One reason, is the American Indian blood in me. There is a weakness for the spirits in my family. I don't think it is a sin to drink, but drunkeness is. Many lives have been ruined by it. I preferr to experience life knowing what is going on. I have wondered how guys justify the mixing of drinking and shooting. It is a risky combination.

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Alexander Solzhenitzyn:
"Freedom is given to the human conditionally, in the assumption of his constant religious responsibility."
 
I agree, for me there is no "or"...

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...defend the 2nd., it protects us all.
No fate but what we make...
 
I don't drink enough to call it drinking. Can't remember last time I had a beer. Now if I could just quit smoking and dipping.
 
good for you,
for anyone that drinks, if you are bothered by you possible behavior with alchohol and guns,by all means keep them seperate.
i quit drinking in '75 cause inside me is an idiot and 3 drinks set him free.

rms/pa
 
I would rather give up this annoying tobacco habit than my guns. Lord knows I have spent enough on Skoal to buy two or three good firearms.
 
"inside me is an idiot and 3 drinks set him free."
Been there, done that.

[This message has been edited by Allen_Raiford (edited June 25, 2000).]
 
"inside me is an idiot and 3 drinks set him free."
Me too.Quit in 77.
Lots of money spent on good things after.No hangovers.no fights and no trouble that I can't remember getting into.

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beemerb
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world;
and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men
every day who don't know anything and can't read.
-Mark Twain
 
been there n done that, don't do that no more. Brain cells scarce enough in my head without pickeling what few are left.

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Sam I am, grn egs n packin

Nikita Khrushchev predicted confidently in a speech in Bucharest, Rumania on June 19, 1962 that: " The United States will eventually fly the Communist Red Flag...the American people will hoist it themselves."
 
Don't much care for the taste of alcohol. Don't understand, ingeneral, the appeal of losing control over my actions and thought process...it happens to a degree when I get tired and it is not a helpful or pleasant condition. Why induce it deliberately?

My fav vices are items like chocolate and coffee and they'd be gone in an instant had the choice been between them and having weapons.
 
I haven't touched a drop of alkyhol in over 2 1/2 years. I can easily live without that stuff.
I would NEVER give up my guns! In fact I would rather die than give them up.
I wouldn't want to live in a world where I couldn't be free to defend myself from armed criminals.
Besides, I'd much rather spend my money on something useful, and also have something to show for it besides a hangover. ;)

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"Rise like lions after slumber in invanquishable number - Shake your chains to earth like dew which in sleep had fallen on you - Ye are many - They are few."
-Percy Bysshe Shelly (1792-1822)
 
I've started to lose interest in alcohol too. I still brew my own, and on occasion I'll have a beer with my meal. I just don't get drunk anymore like I used to. I think this is commonly refered to as growing up. There is just so much more fun things you can do while under full control of your faculties. I only wish I could quit Coppenhagen. I'm psyching myself out to do it towards the end of the Summer. The only way for me is cold turkey. I'm going to continue to place $3.50 every other day in a jar, and my goal will be to get a 1991A1, or Browning Hi-Power in 40 S&W. I've always wanted a John Browning design in my possession. After that, I want to get an M1 Garand or maybe a M1A1 if I can really sock away the money.
 
I had my last drink of alcohol about 3 years ago. No particular reason for quiting, just saw it as a waste of money and braincells, I don't have an excess of either. I don't miss the hangovers either. A few months later I threw away my last can of Copenhagen, that 20+ year habit was the toughest to break but it's over now and I'm not even tempted anymore. Thank God, literally. I remember the sudden panic attacks when I realized I didn't have my can with me while out in the woods. Or running out at 9am knowing I'm stuck in the tractor till dark. Sounds kinda silly now, very serious back then. While I was in the quiting mood I decided to drop coffee off the grocery list also. I still miss the smell of it in the morning, but I don't miss needing 2 or 3 cups just to get woke up. I decided I've got better things to do with my money than buy such habit-forming products that do nothing but shorten my life. :)

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bullet placement is gun control
 
I used to drink like a fish. Come home from a night out with the guys drunk, sick, and stupid!!!! I can't see why I had to be hammered every friday night to have fun. It was killing my sporting clay scores on saturdays, and making me sick. I got married, had a daughter, and GREW UP!!! I still like to drink a beer or two at a ball game, or after a day of shooting. But I feel much better not getting wasted like some retarded punk. And my shooting scores have sky rocketed since. So... I guess you could say... I'd rather shoot than drink.

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" I SHOOT BACK! "
 
I don't drink and haven't for a few years. However I do not think that drinking or even drinking to excess occasionally with guns in the house necessarily makes one irresponsible. That brings us back to the agruement about having children and guns in the same house, which has been discussed here many times in the past. How many of us have grown with and/or raised children with guns in the house. There are those that can not drink reponsibly with or without guns the same way as there are those that can not act responsibly with a gun, drinking or not. Drinking does increase the risk of an accident gun or other wise, however I would never condemn anyone for drinking simply becasue they were a gun enthusiast. We may (soon) some day see legislation directed at precluding any that drink, in any amount, purchasing or possessing a gun.

My vice is smoking, which I will not even go into here, other than to say we are persecuted more than gun owners and defended by fewer. However given the choice between the two I would give up smoking before my guns. Thank God I live in a country where I do not have that choice forced upon me....yet.



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Gunslinger
 
Well, I still have my two main vices, cigarettes and beer. I keep a close watch on how much I drink, and never do anything that requires thought or skills after having even one or two beers: handling guns, riding a motorcycle, driving, working, etc.

Gunslinger, you're right about the persecution of smokers. There's a TV ad running now for some fabric cleaner where the woman says, "we had a smoker in our carpool today and now my best blazer reeks of smoke."
Imagine if the line was "we had a negro in our carpool today and now my best blazer smells like fried chicken."

Putting my Nomex suit on now....

Dick
 
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