Michigan Bans Open Carry of Firearms at Polling Places

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Though I did date a Huberty in high school,  McDonald's was not mentioned in Zilla's question.

But thanks for playing.

Sarcasm? Kinda like "Though I did date a Huberty".

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I wasn't being sarcastic.  I dated a Huberty in high school, again in my twenties, again in my thirties...by then I outgrew my desire for the really bad boys.  He had actually been at Father Gibault's School for boys in Terre Haute, IN back in the day...some years after Charles Manson escaped from there.

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What's left of my point is that there is a range of skill levels among people who have access to guns. Endfamilyfire.org addresses the issue of children who kill. They are sometimes playing cowboys and indians. (Dak Prescott vs. the great Mahatma?) Adults with guns hope to be "the good guy with the gun." (Like the guys that took down the looney who shot up the White House with an AK. (Except they didn't use guns, they landed on the fool, HARD)) People who want to be the GGWAG can go their entire life without hitting that "heroic" moment. But they will constantly be in danger of being the fool who let his/her gun do serious damage and/or be taken.

I guess my point is that I grew up where nearly every house had several guns.  No one got shot.  We, as kids, were taught not to play with the guns.  Guns were taken out to go shooting...game, skeet, target...or to be cleaned.  Gun safety was taught and enforced.

Brian will come back with the suicide thing.  I know of a couple guys who hung themselves and a couple who went the carbon monoxide route...they all had access to guns.  Just because a gun is around doesn't mean a person contemplating suicide is going to opt for that method.

Teen and twenty something guys in my day fought with their fists.  Some real bad asses showed up with chains or a baseball bat.  Pool cues were handy at bars.  Yet, nearly every home had at least one gun and plenty of ammo.