Hello everynoe. My name is David. I learned to shoot in the military where I helped run training ranges. I currently don't own any weapons, but decided to join because I want to support an approach to gun safety and ownership that can counter the insanity that is the NRA. I saw the youtube video with Deviant, and after researching the various groups he mentioned decided to join the LGC.
I still occasionally go shoot with friends who are LEOs, but I have resisted becoming more involved in the sport due to the politics often expressed at the range. I am looking forward to seeing what LGC events are like.
Re: Hello From Minneapolis
2Welcome! I've only been to Minneapolis once but I liked it a lot.Kingpatzer wrote: Thu Apr 08, 2021 12:08 pm Hello everynoe. My name is David. I learned to shoot in the military where I helped run training ranges. I currently don't own any weapons, but decided to join because I want to support an approach to gun safety and ownership that can counter the insanity that is the NRA. I saw the youtube video with Deviant, and after researching the various groups he mentioned decided to join the LGC.
I still occasionally go shoot with friends who are LEOs, but I have resisted becoming more involved in the sport due to the politics often expressed at the range. I am looking forward to seeing what LGC events are like.
I'm new here as well, but so far everyone here has been really cool!
Re: Hello From Minneapolis
3Welcome from Mishawaka, Indiana. We’re a big tent, so expect disagreements on many things. However, unlike the other side, the vast majority of us haven’t surrendered logic and reason to ideology and strong man cult.
Glad that federal government is boring again.
Re: Hello From Minneapolis
4I'm totally fine with disagreement and robust debate, I'm not ok with a lack of civility and failure to respect people who have differing views.Stiff wrote: We’re a big tent, so expect disagreements on many things
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5We’re mostly civil here, even to the occasional Trumper troll.Kingpatzer wrote: Thu Apr 08, 2021 1:55 pmI'm totally fine with disagreement and robust debate, I'm not ok with a lack of civility and failure to respect people who have differing views.Stiff wrote: We’re a big tent, so expect disagreements on many things
Glad that federal government is boring again.
Re: Hello From Minneapolis
6 I've never been to Minnesota but I love the movie "Fargo" by the Minnesota natives Joel and Ethan Coen.
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Re: Hello From Minneapolis
10Hi from NJ. I've never been to Minnesota, either, but until the pandemic, my wife flew to Minneapolis all the time since that's where her job is, up until early March last year. Since then it's all WFH here and Zoom-type meetings. Our son did a two-week Spanish immersion camp there in 2019.
"Even if the bee could explain to the fly why pollen is better than shit, the fly could never understand."
Re: Hello From Minneapolis
11o/
Wait, sorry, I mistook us for some other forum full of gun nuts. Nevermind. As you were.
No you're not! Resistance is futile. Comply with social norms. Respect is for the weak.Kingpatzer wrote: Thu Apr 08, 2021 1:55 pmI'm totally fine with disagreement and robust debate, I'm not ok with a lack of civility and failure to respect people who have differing views.Stiff wrote: We’re a big tent, so expect disagreements on many things
Wait, sorry, I mistook us for some other forum full of gun nuts. Nevermind. As you were.
Re: Hello From Minneapolis
12I am in Minneapolis as well. Would be great to do a MN members’ range visit this summer!
Mark
Re: Hello From Minneapolis
13I'd totally be up for that!onebohemian wrote: Thu Apr 08, 2021 9:36 pm I am in Minneapolis as well. Would be great to do a MN members’ range visit this summer!
Re: Hello From Minneapolis
14Greeting from another David, this one in New Jersey. There's an interesting bunch of people in the LGC, I've learned a lot here. Check out the Social Distance Learning series, past ones are posted on the Utube channel. A very inexpensive membership will garner some other perks like the LGC Discord server and some members only sub forums here. Welcome!
Re: Hello From Minneapolis
15Howdy from Houston! Tell us more about insanity.