Lost another friend :(

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I hate it when friendships are lost.

I'm with Kraftie on this. It seems that it's a shame to lose a friend over this. Sly, as you get older, you'll find that making friends is harder to do. Even for neurotypicals it can be hard because people get married and they sort of live in their own little corner of the world. They go to church and social events with their spouse, and maybe they have some friends who are couples, but even those friends don't go and talk for hours or whatever, they are more acquaintances.

You're gonna do what you're gonna do, but I'd recommend you don't take debates like this and make them into an ultimate judgement on whether or not you'll be their friend. And please understand, I can see how you'd be offended by what your friend said. But also understand there's this sort of non-specifity to what he's saying that almost makes you have to sit back and not take it seriously.

So for instance, this guy believes that people are on disability shouldn't have a gun? So a guy who had a background in the military and gets out and works in a steel mill and falls off a ladder, tunes up his back and is now on disability shouldn't own a gun? Because I mean, being that his back is all messed up, I'm sure he can run with the speed of a tiger to shoot all of the people running away as he goes on his mass killing spree. And people with back trouble, they sit their brooding all day about the non-back injured people (I think they like to refer to them as backtypicals) and how they'd like to kill them. And I'm sure they get fed more anger when they go to their backdiversive groups for people who back injuries and are fed more hate about backtypicals.

So, I think we get the idea of how silly this argument is. Honestly Sly, if the guy can throw down some beers with you and get drunk with you and make you laugh because he freakin' clucks like a chicken or whatever, you might want to consider keeping the friendship even if the guy has some extremely vague ideas on certain subjects that are offensive. Not everybody can think with the use of good logic, but that doesn't mean they are overall bad friend material.

There's my two cents, take it for what it's worth. But it's meant in your best interest, sincerely it is.

I am going to go out on a limb here and assume that 1) you have AS 2)you collect disability and 3) you own a gun. And like millions of other Americans that own a firearm legally, you are responsible and act ethically when handling your firearm. That, regardless of your disabling condition, you yet to prove that you are a violent predator. Maybe telling your friend your personal experience may allow him to see that the issue is not always black and white.
On the other hand, legislation does not act like that. Laws are reactionary and prone to be a reaction to a crisis and/or panicked citizenry wanting the government to 'do more'.

I don’t know anything about the car thing. You titled this thread in referring to this guy as a friend. I’d assume you did that because you consider him a friend. What happened with the car thing?

The guy bought his car and then wouldn't do anything about helping sly with the paperwork that should have been completed. He's a sketchy guy.

When I read what that guy is saying about people on SSI etc shouldn't own guns, it also sounds to me like he is saying that people who get aid shouldn't be free to spend the money they get on whatever they choose. Since they are being helped out they don't get all the freedoms of other citizens.

Obviously, I didn’t know this was the same guy as the “car guy.”

Sly: I’m not stupid. I know there are many gun laws. I should know—I live in a place with many gun laws!

As long as you don’t mind guns, you’re cool.

He has no objection to liberals—as long as they’re gun advocates.

Back in the day I was a conservative who thought the 2nd amendment was up there with the Bible and all that jazz. Now I'm pretty liberal, and I just don't see that the 2nd amendment intended for people to be able to have arsenals of assault weapons in their home. I don't see the justification.

There's this idea that people can defend themselves from the government, but that's ridiculous because OBVIOUSLY the government has access to the military and the military can send in a team of Navy SEALs to take care of business (or a large missile or whatever). So that isn't a justification.

However, in the mean time, Jimmy Bob Joe Smith has this arsenal of weapons in his trailer (got some stereotyping for you) that certainly allows him to out arm his neighbor who he's having a feud with because they drank his last Mountain Dew at a party. As a nation, we need to really focus on how much we should limit guns. Obviously, things can't stay status quo. And the violence, where is this violence coming from?