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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy obligatory gun post: I hate 'em. At one point I was in possession of two
I took both of them away from people I loved who were expressing suicidal intent. Two separate occasions separated by a decade or so. Two unrelated people. Both "successful" males but with little else in common. The guns are unloaded and now in the hands of responsible people.
This isn't a political post. It's clearly not a case of advocating one way or another on... anything. It's just a story.
Guns give me the creeps. Always have. I suppose they always will. And yes, I've even done some target shooting.
I just don't like them.
Calm your gun loving palpitating little heart: I don't want to take your guns away.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Democracyinkind
(4,015 posts)to take experiences like yours just as seriously as paranoid fantasies about a tyrannical government coming for our guns.
At that point, we could at least have a discussion, as opposed to what we have now.
Not liking guns - as your post shows - isn't always the same as wanting to totally abolish the second amandment. Maybe that is a middle ground on which a discussion could be started, one day, when this country has matured a bit.
get the red out
(13,468 posts)I don't like being around them. We don't have any in the house. As someone with a huge family predisposition to depression I think of them as just way too convenient in the wrong hands. Dead is hard to undo.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)They were my late father-in-law's guns and I keep the handguns mostly for sentimental reasons. I don't even have ammo for them. The shotgun is within reach and so is a two-cartridge clip I can pop in if needed. Where we live, rabid animals are not uncommon. The dogs protect the house, not the shotgun. Should it be necessary, I can have it ready in ten seconds.
spin
(17,493 posts)I hold a different view but I will not try to convince you that you need a firearm.
My son in law keeps trying to convince me that I should take up sky diving. I tell him that I can't see any reason to jump out of a perfectly good aircraft.
People differ.
Johnny Rico
(1,438 posts)You don't like them and don't have any. I do like them and have a hundred of them.
To each their own!