Gun Control

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I wonder how many gun-rights supporters on this board have ever been present when a fellow human being was shot to death.

Boru

Interesting question.  My father-in-law is a retired police officer, who also worked as a guard at a hospital emergency room some years ago.  I am sure that he saw gunshot wounds, if not on the job as a police officer, on the job as a security guard at an emergency room (though in that case, he would only be looking at the results, and not be present while the person was being shot).  He did not like having a gun, but it was required for his job, and as soon as he got home, the first thing he did was empty the bullets from the gun, and lock up the ammunition in one strongbox, and lock up the gun in another strongbox.  He did not want his children (or anyone else) getting their hands on either the gun or the ammunition, and he was not living in fear that someone would kick down his door and murder him, as the odds of that are pretty low.

Your father-in-law is the perfect example of how people should own, maintain, and use firearms.  If that was a universal norm instead of the all-too-rare exception, my issues with gun ownership would vanish like a fart in a typhoon.

Boru

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Um, I don't think that would always be true

Nor do I, which is why all the qualifiers in my statement.  I'm sure that there are a fair number of people around who would see someone shot to death and think, 'That was soooooo cool!!'
The technical term for these people is 'fucking lunatics.'
Boru