Gun owners?

[Godscreated]

I don't own hand guns, haven't found a reason to have them. I do own a 12 ga. shot gun, one 22 rifle, one 22/250 rifle designed for long distant varmint hunting and a 7mm mag. rifle for deer hunting. I do not keep any loaded and actually keep the bolts for the rifles hidden, makes rifles useless to thieves and those who would buy or sale stolen guns. I do keep the magazine for the 22 loaded and ready just encase someone would be stupid enough to try and get by five rottweilers, they help keep down the possibility of using the gun on another person.
I am totally for gun ownership and as many as one wants, as long as they meat the present day requirements within today's law. The citizens of the U.S. are so well armed we could take on any ground forces another country would throw at us, I live in east Tennessee and people would not believe how well armed we are, we have enough ammunition to fight for a extended period and many of us reload many different types of ammunition. I just can't see another country wanting to try such a foolish move as to try a ground attack of this country. Let's stay safe with ownership and safer with responsible ownership.

GC

[KUSA]

I absolutely love guns and own many of them from revolvers, semi-auto handguns, bolt action precision rifles, black rifles both 5.56 and 7.62.

Almost forgot, I have a scatter gun too.

[Napoléon]

However we all take that same risk everyday climbing into our cars.

This is the worst damn argument to defend guns and I really wish gun owners would stop using it.

Guns and cars are not comparable. It's a bullshit argument. Same with guns and knives. Or even guns and explosives. Cars are not designed to shoot things. Neither are knives. And explosives are far more difficult to get hold of than guns.

People seriously need to stop pretending like guns are just a utensil we use in our everyday lives. Because they're not.

If all gun sales were stopped tomorrow there would be no shortage of firearms for years to come. The bad guys would still be able to acquire them.

This is another bullshit argument. "The criminals would still have guns".

Why outlaw murder? People will still murder right?

Well, there's always going to be someone out there with guns that shouldn't have them. In the UK, there's still guns, believe it or not. However they're very rare as a direct result of our laws. It's not about making them impossible to get hold of. It's about making it harder for whackos and nutjobs to get hold of. If every man and his dog has a gun, like they currently do in America, where you can buy a gun legally that's cheaper than even on the black market, then any old idiot can get one, as it currently stands. How easy is it for a loon with mental problems to access a gun in your country? Are we going to pretend like it isn't? Are we going to pretend like increasing gun restrictions would do absolutely nothing, or a govt buyback on guns would do absolutely nothing? And it would still be just as easy to get hold of an instrument designed entirely for death?


I realise I'm shitting all over your thread here, but man, please can people stop with these same old bullshit arguments. I'd much rather people just said, "I like guns, don't take them away from me", because that's really about all the justification you guys have.

Oh, and IMO there is no such thing as a 'peaceful gun nut'. That's an oxymoron.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The citizens of the U.S. are so well armed we could take on any ground forces another country would throw at us, I live in east Tennessee and people would not believe how well armed we are, we have enough ammunition to fight for a extended period and many of us reload many different types of ammunition. I just can't see another country wanting to try such a foolish move as to try a ground attack of this country. Let's stay safe with ownership and safer with responsible ownership.

A mob is not an army, and I doubt very much that the fine people of east Tennessee are equipped with drones, tanks and attack helicopters.

Boru

[Napoléon]

I just can't see another country wanting to try such a foolish move as to try a ground attack of this country.

This is how bat shit insane you 'gun nuts' are, you think another country isn't going to go to war with you, not because you have the most advanced and powerful military in the world, but because your citizens are armed with guns.

[Brian37]

In a perfect utopia, if there were no gun death, I wouldn't give a shit. "Well regulated" is the the part gun worshipers ignore. We regulate cars and roads too.

[brewer]

Wow.  Where would you go to shoot that 300?  
Oh wait, you're in Texas, aren't you?  They have ranges that will let you shoot that thing?

There are ranges in all the states that surround me that allow that caliber. Some ranges require hollow points.

[Cyberman]

Never owned a firearm, never wanted to, never liked the damn things. The thought of possessing something designed purely to end another's life at any moment I choose is totally abhorrent to me. In my opinion, the screening process should be a simple application form with one question: "Do you want to own a firearm - yes/no?" Answering "yes" would immediately disqualify the person from getting one.

[Brian37]

I absolutely love guns and own many of them from revolvers, semi-auto handguns, bolt action precision rifles, black rifles both 5.56 and 7.62.

Almost forgot, I have a scatter gun too.

That is the problem. "Love". Having an emotional attachmentment to an object is unhealthy when it clouds your judgment to the point of ignoring a problem. It is the same worship of the Koran that allows Muslims to ignore the violence justified by its use.

[Brian37]

It is the same love of profit that kept lead in paint and gas. The same love of cars that Nadar had too fight .
Humans have rights, obects do not.