Shooting A Gun Reaffirmed My Belief in Gun Control

bustle.com ^ | 1/12/2016 | Ella Grace Downs

[rktman]

I've never understood guns - why people love them so much, why they think it's fun to shoot them, why they collect them. I was always simply terrified of guns - which was extra difficult, given that I grew up in the South, nearly surrounded by them. My mother claimed to have one tucked away somewhere in the house when I was growing up, but I never believed her, because I never saw it. My cousins used to shoot BB guns in the backyard on holidays while I would stand on the porch and watch. I went to parties in middle school and high school where we hung out in some basement next to someone's ridiculous gun collection. As soon as anyone started to get the guns out to show them off, I hightailed it out of there. I hated being in the same room as a gun, and I didn't want to know or understand how they worked. I didn't think you needed to know how a gun worked, or what it felt like to use one, in order to know that they were dangerous.

Last week, Barack Obama issued executive orders to improve gun control, through actions like taking control of gun show sales and increasing background checks. I believe that none of this is a threat to anyone's culture or rights. I believe that you can hold on to your culture, your history, your Second Amendment, and that there can still be less gun violence.

[rktman]

Hmmm. Irrational fear of inanimate objects eh? So don't own one. Just because you FEEL this way doesn't give you the gravitas to tell others they shouldn't have "ridiculous gun collection"'s. You don't want to know, then don't pontificate about something you don't want to know about and don't care to understand. As for berry and his executive orders, virtually everything he said is already on the books so, as usual, he didn't say anything. Go back to "mudding"(and polluting the environment you erf killer) and swill some beers with your gal pals.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“I’ve never understood guns”

OK, bye.

[MNJohnnie]

Dear Ella Grace Downs

Just because you, like most leftists, have a highly irrational phobia, does not mean we should make changes to our legal system just to accommodate your irrationality.

[smokingfrog]

Poor baby!

[patq]

I’m surprised she survived growing up with all of those guns around. /s

[Mr. K]

“I never understood guns so YOU can’t have them”

[Yo-Yo]

Last week, Barack Obama issued executive orders to improve gun control, through actions like taking control of gun show sales and increasing background checks. I believe that none of this is a threat to anyone's culture or rights. I believe that you can hold on to your culture, your history, your Second Amendment, and that there can still be less gun violence.

Obviously clueless, because Zero didn't issue any executive orders, he issued executive actions, which are legally different, and apart from ordering the SSA to send information to NICS, was only a reiteration of current laws, with nothing new added.

[Bubba_Leroy]

"I don't want a gun to defend myself so I don't want you to be able to defend yourself either."

[Paladin2]

I’ve never understood 2012 0bama voters.....

[TADSLOS]

Poor lil’ snowflake.

[mrmeyer]

"I was always simply terrified of guns"

That's because you're an irrational coward.

[rockrr]

Darn it - another site that doesn’t allow comments (not that anything I could say would change her pebble-sized brain).

[JimRed]

I believe that you can hold on to your culture, your history, your Second Amendment, and that there can still be less gun violence.

Yes, there can be less gun violence. How? By IDENTIFYING AND CONTROLLING THOSE WHO COMMIT IT. Criminals, gangbangers (but I repeat myself) and crazies. Control THEM and gun violence will be reduced to near zero.

One method of controlling them lies in an ARMED POPULATION. They behave much better when CONSEQUENCES are not only possible, but PROBABLE!

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[Jagdgewehr]

The first paragraph verbosely nullifies any point made in the following paragraphs.

[Billthedrill]

I stop reading this sort of navel-gazing crapola after the fifteenth “I”. The author is a self-absorbed neurotic. Sharing her neurosis is not the answer.

[dfwgator]

[vladimir998]

“Hmmm. Irrational fear of inanimate objects eh?”

She has hoplophobia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoplophobia

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Ella Grace Downs = typical, loser moonbat emotional left-wing Hillary supporting female with a pea-sized brain.

[Bubba_Leroy]

She selected No. 2. Fine. That's her choice. I just don't want her to impose her choice on us.

Why is it that liberals are not pro-choice when it comes to defending yourself?