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Originally Posted by gmku
Guns are for cowards.
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Hey hey.. hold on a second.
I'd punch a hole in a piece of paper myself, but doing it from 50 yards with a rifle is a lot more fun
I'm not going to say a whole lot on this subject, other than - I think there's something deeply flawed with a society arming itself under the pretence of providing protection.
In my opinion owning a gun for sport and then locking it away when you're home from the range is a very different thing to owning a gun with the expressed purpose of killing anyone that walks into your home.
It's that mindset which is a large part of the problem - along of course with the proliferation of guns.
As to concealed weapons..
A guy tries to mug you on the street, you don't see it coming. Before you know it you're on your arse and he's already found your gun. What happens then?
What's the ultimate evolution of all this? Everyone with concealed weapons? What sort of a fucking life is that anyway? In an environment like that, you need to be alert at all times, you can't let your guard down. That's not a civilised existence, that's a warzone.
Maybe that's what certain people want.
Personally I like the luxury of being able to sit and drink a coffee and not having to worry that if some drunk guy starts harrassing a member of staff, or me, that one or the other of them is going to pull out a 9mm semi automatic pistol.
What's worse is that every so often a gun nut comes out and says, hey Columbine/Virginia Tech/Insert massacre here, wouldn't of happened if only those innocent students had been armed!
Yeah, sure.
There would have been a fucking bloodbath, people completely unprepared for this situation, in shock, shooting wildly at some guy who may or may not be the perpetrator, in a crowded auditorium or cafeteria or library.
So anyway..
I think pistols should be banned outright. Semi automatic rifles and shotguns should be banned. Absolute zero tolerance should be exercised after an amnesty.
Then see how the natives behave with bolt action rifles.
If the senseless murdering continues.
Take that off them too.
And I say this as a guy who owns a .22 rifle and likes to shoot paper and nothing else since I'm a vegetarian.
Shooting holes in paper on a range can be fun with friends.
Going to sleep at night with a finger on the trigger of a pistol and an ear listening for an intruder down the hall, is my idea of hell. It's not a life.