Makes perfect sense. Touch grass before you get a gun.

In the moment that someone starts shooting at me, I'd value a group of trees that I could hide behind more than a gun of my own to shoot back at them.

America, take heed!

Grabs a shovel and rides off into the distance

Unless it's your grandaddy's old gun, I doubt the trees will provide much shelter

Something something Iran Conifer Affir

Depending on some conditions, trees can ricochet bullets. Especially knots in the wood.

The tree is not defense, the tree is offense!

Can you imagine that in America? Fucking Republicans would have a hissy fit. They be like "how dare you make us plant trees. Communists"....lol

American gun owner chiming in. I have no issue with that. That’s trivial. I’m a hunter and outdoorsman, and the additional trees would restore habitats for the game I hunt. As farmland turns into tract housing, at least in my area, wild animals start to disappear. I would support natural conservation efforts as a condition of my hunting license, gun purchase, or even just as a matter of civic duty. Why not? I’ve already better than tripled that quota.

Cool. Good on you man. I didn't mean to attack gun owners. Was just thinking more big picture. Politics wise. Can't really see Republicans playing around with 2nd amendment. They're just so hardcore there.

Just take into consideration that, simply because we have two dominant parties doesn’t mean the people only have two dominant mindsets, nor are the parties necessarily polar opposites in their interests. I’m not a Republican, but I will say that there should be no barrier for a person of good legal standing to purchase and possess a firearm of any kind in this country. I do differ from many of my right-leaning countrymen in allowing for some creative civics in the process, such as dropping a few trees in the ground.

Understood...like I said, I got nothing against gun owners, or anyone who follows the laws and constitution. I just don't think the Republicans would ever negotiate in the sense that guns and the environment would ever meet...lol

I think you watch far too much cable news.

Whatever....I don't watch cable news.

How many trees have you planted btw?

I don't know....20 maybe....what the fuck has that to do with anything?

See how aggressive you’re being? I haven’t even pressed you about how ignorant your comments are yet. Look up the Pittman-Robertson Act and then ask yourself who contributes to that more, democracts or republicans.

Not being aggressive....you asked a stupid question.

K, good luck with your sweeping generalizations of millions of people. Thanks for planting trees.

Whatever .... go away.

The largest funding source for US wildlife conservation programs is from taxes generated from gun owners buying firearms and ammo.

no no, see, planting that many trees means your bark will always be worse than your bite, by ratio.

Not a sapling.

Because it's completely unrelated to the target?

see, planting trees to get a drivers licensed would make sense. not for guns.

When men can't control women as they like--this is the result.

what is it?

what

You clearly don't hunt.

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You clearly think most people buy guns so they can hunt.

They took the name of an American weapons scandal, the "Iran Contra Affair" and replaced Contra with the similar sounding conifer, which is a type of tree

> a person of good legal standing

Who is now in possession of a dangerous tool with which they can quickly lose that standing.

Being in good legal standing is a good minimum bar, but it absolutely shouldn't be the only bar.

But do those trees survive ?

I'm not American. It may surprise you to find that 95% of the world isn't. The only reason people buy guns in my country is to hunt.

thanks TIL

Anyone want to take bets on how many bribes are paid vs trees planted?

The people may not have two dominant mindsets, but the politicians do, and the only mindset of the Republican party the past several years is "Don't let the Democrats do anything." Seriously, they didn't even write a platform in 2020. You personally may not have a problem with planting trees, but I guarantee you the politicians would make a huge deal out of it, not because the people actually care about it, but because they want to drive engagement in their voter base

Depending on the age of the tree, it can def stop a 9mm from a glock. With the right thickness, it will probably stop civilian grade 5.56 rounds as well

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I second this notion

Kinda wish this was the norm for a few decades running now. Wildlife is supposedly down ~69% across the globe due to habitat loss, primarily.

Edit: source

https://www.worldwildlife.org/press-releases/69-average-decline-in-wildlife-populations-since-1970-says-new-wwf-report

This has nothing to do with the article, but it does need to be said. Too often these plant a tree campaigns are not well thought out or implemented. Too often they’re implemented without thought for sustainability or whether the place’s where the trees are planted are environmentally suitable. An extreme example obviously but planting trees in an area subject to drought or the wrong type of tree for the area, deciduous vs coniferous.

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"How about a magic trick?

I will make this sapling disappear."

They plant 10 trees of their own and get themselves a gun.

So don't get into a firefight for at least 20 years after you plant the trees, gotcha

You mean to tell me the Indian state of Punjab isn't the world's largest forest?

Exactly. The famous “Great Green Wall” of Africa had 80% of its trees die because numbers are more important than sustainability.

They should also show the tree growing to show that you can be responsible.

Concealment is also valuable.

> A man in Java, Indonesia has completed a herculean task: Planting an entire forest all on his own.

I think what we’re saying is not to abandon the effort, but think it through. We badly need trees, but we need effective planning more.

Well anything they don't like is communism somehow...

When they like it... It's fine...

Notice they never call any social program for old people communism???

America actually doesn't have a lack of tree problem.

They just don't have the right trees in many areas.

Our greatest loss is grasslands... Up to as much as 99% of all US grasslands are destroyed or partially damaged...

They're just preparing your burial site if you happen to commit with that gun

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Nice way to make sure that only people with enough land to plant 10 trees can get a gun. /s

Hence your grandaddy's old gun, implying that the trees were planted at least a whole generation ago.

Could be. Thought he was saying older guns are weaker

He's not. I know because he's me.

And I did not notice until you said it.

M1 garrand might go through the fucker

Omg if we did this in America we'd be a rain forest

Supplying wood for the coffin.