Do you own a gun and why.

[sevenofnine]

I did this a couple years ago at work sitting around the coffee table and was surpised how many people own a gun and none of them were hunters.
It was like close to fifty fifty.

I don't own a gun, though I have spent time on the farm on and off, and know how to shoot, have shot lots of gophers and just stuff when I was a boy.
I thought it was fun actually.

But I remember one day, I shot a gopher and I watched in struggle in its last moments in life.
I have never shot anything again after that, it just got to me and after that put up tin cans on a post.
I don't own a gun, though I could or should there is a coyote that desersves to well it pisses me off. But the dogs run it away.

I don't believe I could ever shoot anyone ever, Not to defend my life for sure,
but my family another story.
So do you own a gun and why?

 

[Iroc]

Several Guns.
after many years of hunting.....even before the firearm course was introduced, I was taught safety, courtesy, and the absolute violence that a GUN can produce.

Read that last part again. THE GUN is an inanimate object....the PERSON using it is 100% responsible for the violence that occurs.

Never...EVER...blame the GUN.....if used for HARM by the PERSON.....BLAME the PERSON.

Having said this.....as a long time recreational target shooter, hunter.....my heart is very saddened when I hear about these tragic events. Senseless.

And once again....this tragedy is not about the GUN......it is about mental health and societal problems.

 

[blazejowski]

Never fired one or even held one before. Never saw the need...

 

[Sonny]

Yes, the gun is an inaminate object, but one that some folks can use to kill 20 innocent helpless children aged 4 to 10.

If this inaminate object in the hands of the wrong mind can end the lives of others, then its possession requires control.

Even healthy minds might, for a second, become disturbed by some traumatic or distressing event, and the inaminate object is perhaps too handy for this momentarily disturbed mind to do something completely out of character. It only takes anger or whatever. And some person is dead.

How do you measure the disturbed mind, especially if it appears for only short times, which may not be noticed by anyone? Life, once gone, is not recoverable. A dead person remains dead. How do you keep life safe and sacred? How do you safeguard against harmful use of the inaminate object?

In several US states now it is legal for gunowners to carry and display handguns openly while out and about, shopping, having a drink at the local bar, etc. How safe do folks feel in a bar at night with a crowd of gun-toting drinkers, perhaps some with their mental processes impaired and their irrational emotional responses loosened? Does this reveal the fact that the USA has not out-grown its wild west history?

 

[luvsdaty]

Yes, i use it for hunting.Hunted since i was old enough to hold the rifle off the ground. I don't think about them much, only when i'm hunting. The rest of the time they're locked away until i need them again.
This whole home defense stuff is just fear mongering. if you took a poll of how many perb members have had their homes invaded, i'm pretty sure that # would be very low.

 

[the old maxx50]

I have never fired a real gun ,, We lived in the city and my dad did not hunt . The war kind of turned him off of killing any creature and it what he taught me ..

But Do wish i knew how to use one, and would like to learn about the different makes and how they work ,, Take them apart ,put them back together ..

Never know when I might have to pick up a gun and i don't even know where the safty is Even a revolver i can only guess how to use by watching movies ...

I we are indoctrinated with guns because it is all over the shows we watch and in some ways it may seem like a second nature to use one .. Like the children in so many of the third world countries that are all ways having revolutions .. We are lucky that is not the kind of country where we see the police and solders carrying sub machine guns on street corners ..

But gun are all around us .As a kid I saw them at my uncles who both were hunters.. and i have run across them a few time as an adult . I saw a revolver that one of our tenets had and . On one of the stages I drove for .. the client greeted us with an automatic . I just fig they were drug dealer .. It did not really fays me because it was something I expected in the sex and drug trade . the girls seem to had seen it all before .

I am sure some escorts definitely. carry small guns in their bag .

 

[HankQuinlan]

We had a .22 rifle in the barn when I was a kid. My brother used to use it to shoot groundhogs in the pasture. One of my buddies and I decided to do the same thing. I went first, and what do you know -- the groundhop pops up to look around and enjoy the day, and my first shot drops it. We went over to look at my handiwork. Never used the fucking thing again.

 

[jesuschrist]

When I was something like 12 years old, I hung around with a kid who had a BB gun. He shot a bird in a tree, then the bird fell to the ground, still alive, flopping around all bloody. He said he had to shoot it again or else it would be miserable. So he did and more blood spurted out, and it stopped flopping around and became an inanimate object.

Seeing something alive turn into an inanimate object is a harrowing experience.

I've never owned a gun. On the other hand, if I lived in the US, I'd own several, just in case. Also, I wouldn't mind shooting some horrible people in this world who don't deserve to live if the government won't do it. One of the first on my list would be that horrible Luka Magnotta freak, and others like him.

 

[vancity_cowboy]

i've used and owned firearms all my life since adolescence, and was taught safe handling and marksmanship by my father when i was a kid

since then i've had to acquire a plethora of permits and licences and take courses to maintain my ownership of my firearms

all except 2 of the firearms are heirlooms that i keep for historical purposes

the 2 are my hunting rifle and shotgun, of which i use my shotgun now almost exclusively

in my youth i achieved many awards for marksmanship and shot competitively at the amateur level

i've hunted and i've killed animals; some for food but mostly for pest control purposes

 

[uncleg]

Yup, 14 of them, long and short. Been a part of my life, most of my life......a tool of the trade for a good part of it. Only practice nowadays, but you never know.

 

[sevenofnine]

I agree with the gun being an inanimate object.

But when you put it in the hands of a nut case? Or someone with a temper.

And I guess the arguement is if the guy wanted to kill someone, he could make a bomb or whatever, the guy in Sandy Hooks school.

But making a bomb ads a whole new layer of complication, is someone who is mentally unstable able to deal with the extra complication, sure some are but some are not. Plus there are more chances of things going wrong getting caught screwing up etc.


How comfortable would you be living next door to a nut case whose father or a family member was a gun guy.

 

[poorboyv6]

Yes I own a gun. It's for self protection in case of a natural disaster. Canadians riot over a hockey game. What do you think they'll do if there's an earthquake?

 

[blazejowski]

Mental health and a culture where violence is glorified are more of a problem than a gun itself. I like shooting for fun, I look sexy doing it too. Just imagine summer day, cut offs, white tank top, sun beating down on my pale white glistening skin, arms straight as I aim a Desert Eagle. And yes, I can actually shoot it without hitting myself in the face.

I am aroused, yet terrified at the same time...

 

[vancity_cowboy]

I agree with the gun being an inanimate object.

But when you put it in the hands of a nut case? Or someone with a temper.

And I guess the arguement is if the guy wanted to kill someone, he could make a bomb or whatever, the guy in Sandy Hooks school.

But making a bomb ads a whole new layer of complication, is someone who is mentally unstable able to deal with the extra complication, sure some are but some are not. Plus there are more chances of things going wrong getting caught screwing up etc.

if they can't use a gun they'll pick up a big rock and kill with that if they want to kill somebody

 

[carvesg]

I have been around firearms for as long as I can remember . I was taugh before kindergarden the dangers of a firearm by my Dad . I have never had a fear of them but a very healthy respect for them and their power and danger. Which explain all the restrictions that should come with the ownership of any of them .

The mother of that Connecticut killer pasted down her obsession to her son and stock piled amunitions for some reasons that are unknown at this point. But definitely everything should have been kept underlock in seperate areas and compartements for the firearms and amunitions like any responsable owner should do . But our neighbours to the south find that too restrictive . Quite a few of them are so afraid of their own shadows that they need a gun under their pillow to sleep better .... not thinking that their own kids might get to use it before they even realise it .

Having shot all types of firearms since I was a kid I know that in no circumstances someone needs magazines holding more than 5 or 6 cartridges or bullets anyone saying otherwise is a pretty bad shot or wants to do something illegal with it unless you are in the military and in a combat theater/ battlefield. Clips/magazines holding 30 cartridges or barrel magazines are simply insane but allowed in the states and defended by the NRA .

I agree that the guns have not caused the massacre in Connecticut but put in the hands of a mentally unstable person they have amplified and multipled the killing beyond anyone could have done with any other handheld killing devices which is the reason that they need to be restricted .

My two cents ....

 

[Sonny]

if they can't use a gun they'll pick up a big rock and kill with that if they want to kill somebody

Yes, I agree with Mr. Cowboy.... people who want to kill will do so, with anything that might do the job.

These days "drones" joysticked from thousands of miles away trace a deadly course across the sky.

But it's hard to kill 26 people, mainly children, running after them with rocks.

Brave school staff tried to disarm Lanza but were killed in their attempt.

They would have likely succeeded if he had a rock rather than an automatic rifle with high capacity ammunition clips.

 

[vancity_cowboy]

But it's hard to kill 26 people, mainly children, running after them with rocks.

Brave school staff tried to disarm Lanza but were killed in their attempt.

They would have likely succeeded if he had a rock rather than an automatic rifle with high capacity ammunition clips.

i dunno... a schoolteacher against a crazed fucker with a big rock, or maybe a baseball bat or a big hammer... i know who my money would be on... just sayin'

 

[Tugela]

Several Guns.
after many years of hunting.....even before the firearm course was introduced, I was taught safety, courtesy, and the absolute violence that a GUN can produce.

Read that last part again. THE GUN is an inanimate object....the PERSON using it is 100% responsible for the violence that occurs.

Never...EVER...blame the GUN.....if used for HARM by the PERSON.....BLAME the PERSON.

Having said this.....as a long time recreational target shooter, hunter.....my heart is very saddened when I hear about these tragic events. Senseless.

And once again....this tragedy is not about the GUN......it is about mental health and societal problems.

No one is blaming the gun, they are blaming gun owners. People like you.

 

[SamGomez]

I've thought about getting a gun but i have no clue how to store it. Last thing i want is to see the dam thing end up in the wrong hands.

 

[Tugela]

Yes I own a gun. It's for self protection in case of a natural disaster. Canadians riot over a hockey game. What do you think they'll do if there's an earthquake?

If there is a natural disaster and you wander around with a gun, the cops/military will shoot you and ask questions later.