Posted on 12/28/2013 3:09:18 PM PST by smokingfrog
I grew up thinking guns were dangerous but now I think they are an important tool for self defense.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ymFuWrrd_fY
Boo ya!
Bump
Guns are efficient engines of destruction.
I wouldn’t be caught dead without them.
I did not feel like watching the video. Was she mugged?
No one ever tried to commit a mass shooting where the people are known to be armed.
No, just exposed to guns around responsible people for the first time.
No. She just didn’t grow up around firearms and believed all the hype. When she lived in AL, she found that almost everyone owned a gun and they weren’t a bunch of scary right-wing nutjobs.
That is often all it takes. Consider this. Many people have no first hand experience with firearms. All they know is what they’ve seen on TV or in the movies. We all know how accurate Hollywood is on most any topic... All these people know of firearms is that there are two kinds of people that have them, cops and criminals. There are basically no characters that are firearms enthusiasts and civilians. It is no wonder people have all these misconceptions about gun ownership.
“All these people know of firearms is that there are two kinds of people that have them, cops and criminals. There are basically no characters that are firearms enthusiasts and civilians. “
There’s probably a reason for that.
depending on what’you’re talkingabout, they are both dangerous and a tool for defense.
they are dangerous in the hands of criminals and the untrained, ignorant, ‘immortal’ goof-offs.
they are also tools for the law abiding to defend themselves with.
Yep.
For example, how many of you heard about the gunfight in Cooperstown NY that happened a bit over a week ago?
What? No one?
Well, a disgruntled former employee walks into a Cooperstown souvenir-type shop and pulls out a Glock, sends a round in the general direction of the owner. The owner fricken pulls HIS gun and shoots back. Coward ex-employee runs away, and they catch him a few days later in VA trying to catch a bus.
Anyone doubt that the aggressor would have killed the store owner if the owner hadn’t returned fire?
I’m sure it is intentional.
Probably exactly the opposite condition, but I mirror your sentiments.
True. When ADT came to install my system, one of them opted to sit on a back of the table kitchen chair (who knows why) to fill out paperwork, and I had to move the gun I keep stashed there (black leather chair in the shadows under the table and the gun/holster blend right in). One of the guys recognized an older 1911 and wanted to take a look. The other just about crapped himself and was antsy the whole rest of the time in the house.
In microcosm, guns are dangerous albiet fun impliments. I used to shoot far more often then I do now. I might shoot hundreds of rounds at one action shoot. I know in my head I have to be careful, but the fun of it is so intense as to make it seem less dangerous than it is.
It is while hunting that the true destructive power is revealed. A walking breathing big game animal just folds up and dies. It’s internals destroyed. It no longer exists save for my use of it as food.
It is the message I constantly re-enforced in my kids when they were little and having fun (it should be fun too), shooting up targets. When things like muzzle direction are kept safe, then even brain fart mistakes like accidental discharges are no more than an embarrassment.
If a gun is "stashed" or on my person, I can guarantee it's loaded and ready to fire - if I ever do an "insurance" cycle to know a weapon is ready, I'll be sending a perfectly good bullet out of the chamber.
Sounds like you know the drill.
I think that much of this is due to the shift away from the United States being an agrarian society to jobs concentrated around large cities.
Since a majority of people now live in the cities and surrounding suburbs they do not have the opportunities to grab the ol' 22 and walk out to the woods for a morning of plinking.
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