farmerman wrote:PS ceej, you must learn to think more logically and less like some schoolyard punk.
Why bother thinking logically when you can just scare others with your big scary gun? BOOGA BOOGA BOOGA!
I get fed up with the intimidation factor many people like cjhsa use. I think they give gun owners a bad name and further they behave in a manner which makes me question whether they have the maturity to carry the responcibility that comes with a firearm.
The conservative spin machine and groups like the NRA say that "guns don't kill people, people kill people," which is true if your thought process is centric around the idea that gun violence only happens with a human element. Take a different issue such as a school distributing (or even just having a basket of) condoms, and what I hear from the the conservatives is how now every child will have sex, as if to say they would not have sex if the condom was not present.
I don't believe that every teenager who picks up a condom is going to feel enabled to have sex anymore than i feel that any person with a gun is going to shoot someone. What I believe is that when you understand the responcibility of something, you respect it more.
Guns should not be treated like any other possession. They are special. To deny this is foolish.
I did martial arts for years as a child, and in the end my conclusion was that I never wanted to get in a fight. I began to realize the severity of violence and what effect it could have on others and myself. I respected my talent/disipline/power and never wanted to have to use it.
I think too many gunnuts have the power of a gun without the disipline or respect. If after learning about guns you don't feel like violence is an absolute last resort, you should not have a gun.
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