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Gun owners?
September 6, 2015 at 9:02 pm
New member. Curious as to how many of y'all own? And what your stance on the whole subject is.
Personally I am a former marine and currently enjoy gun smithing as a hobby. Would also love to get into competition shooting one day. But I am a strictly peaceful gun nut. I would never want to take another persons life. Especially that of another American. Even though I can carry in public I generally choose not to.
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RE: Gun owners?
September 6, 2015 at 9:08 pm
I think I've finally come to the conclusion that I'm against handguns, or any gun easily concealable.
Can I ask you: Would you be for an effective gun regulation that somehow took illegal guns off the street and out of the hands of lunatics if it meant making it more difficult for you to own a gun, or to own certain kinds of guns that you are currently enjoying?
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RE: Gun owners?
September 6, 2015 at 9:13 pm
I will say that right now I am happy with the current level of regulation for guns. Can criminals get guns? Sure. Can criminals get knives? Sure. Can criminals get explosives? Sure. Am I scared of any of the above to the point where I would regulate guns and/or other things even more? Nope.
Just my personal view. I know others will differ.
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RE: Gun owners?
September 6, 2015 at 9:18 pm
My husband owned a Glock until we had toddlers, then he sold it. We've since bought a BB Gun for the girls to play with.
I don't think whether you own a gun is a moral question. The question is whether you use it morally, and whether you store it safely.
As to whether they should be legal generally, there is a fair amount of the U.S. (geographically not population wise) where wildlife almost demands a gun, and deer the population is exploding so hunting rifles are a very good thing. But there is no real city need for a gun, and I don't see why small handguns should be necessary or legal.
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RE: Gun owners?
September 6, 2015 at 9:28 pm
I think if we educated people properly on guns like we used to there would be less issues with gun violence. Could you imagine a high school pistol shooting team? Or skeet team? Or marksmanship team? I'd love for my future children to enjoy the shooting sports. But for some reason this scares people.
But as for why handguns are necessary? You mentioned dangerous wild life but how about the dangers of the inner city? Walking home alone after a long night at work and getting jumped by(insert demographic here). I would want a gun in that situation.
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RE: Gun owners?
September 6, 2015 at 9:35 pm
(September 6, 2015 at 9:28 pm)brian1570 Wrote: I think if we educated people properly on guns like we used to there would be less issues with gun violence. Could you imagine a high school pistol shooting team? Or skeet team? Or marksmanship team? I'd love for my future children to enjoy the shooting sports. But for some reason this scares people.
But as for why handguns are necessary? You mentioned dangerous wild life but how about the dangers of the inner city? Walking home alone after a long night at work and getting jumped by(insert demographic here). I would want a gun in that situation.
It's more that in the inner city, a hand gun might: allow you to hit innocent bystanders; put you on trial for murder; or make you think you're safe when any idiot you haven't seen yet can shoot you any time.
As to the high school shooting team, or skeet team, why couldn't the guns be stored on site rather than at home?
The real U.S. problem is that there are so many handguns, and other guns out there now that it's hard to imagine effective future gun control of any kind.
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RE: Gun owners?
September 6, 2015 at 9:38 pm
One pistol for home defense only. Do not like hand guns in general. To much potential unintended collateral damage. To easy to conceal.
Many other non hand guns. I only have access and they are disabled (except for 2) when in storage. Not willing to go into further details here.
As for restrictions, I'm generally OK with that. For specifics, that would be on a case by case basis. Willing to consider extensive background checks, waiting periods, limits on types of firearms, registrations, no person to person sales, re-certification/qualification/evaluation to continue owning.............
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RE: Gun owners?
September 6, 2015 at 9:39 pm
(September 6, 2015 at 9:28 pm)brian1570 Wrote: I think if we educated people properly on guns like we used to there would be less issues with gun violence. Could you imagine a high school pistol shooting team? Or skeet team? Or marksmanship team? I'd love for my future children to enjoy the shooting sports. But for some reason this scares people.
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You can't think of any reasons why the idea of guns in school scares people?
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RE: Gun owners?
September 6, 2015 at 9:42 pm
Check out the All Hail The Second Amendment Thread under politics.
I have several black powder replicas. Wouldn't even consider trying to use one in self-defense.
