Sad day At Virginia Tech
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I agree. I consider myself a true American yet I have no desire to own a gun. I have no need for one. I support every Americans right to legally own one as laid out by our Constitution and I don't think anyone should be able to take that right away but that doesn't mean I feel I need to own one myself. There are way too many gun accidents and gun thefts to make me want to own a gun. It would be my luck that one of my children accidentally shoots themselves, I accidentally shoot myself, or someone steals my gun and uses it in a crime. The negatives outweigh the positives in my case. Chances are that I would never need to use it so why own a gun. I live in a fairly safe area and don't put myself in any situations where I feel I would need to defend myself with a gun. Sure there's the random mugger or whack job scenario but I'll take my chances.
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I don't really care to disclose the amount of firearms in my home, but I can tell you this; all of my children are experts at handling and caring for firearms and respect them. My kids have been hunting with REAL guns since the day they could say the word, all of them are honor students and active in several charities, but love to hunt, and just go to the local range and shoot their guns. If you teach a child NOW how to respect firearms, they wont learn later from some video game or movie.
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I don't really care to disclose the amount of firearms in my home, but I can tell you this; all of my children are experts at handling and caring for firearms and respect them. My kids have been hunting with REAL guns since the day they could say the word, all of them are honor students and active in several charities, but love to hunt, and just go to the local range and shoot their guns. If you teach a child NOW how to respect firearms, they wont learn later from some video game or movie.
Good enough until the military coupe happens, then we go to my friend Matt's house with his fifty guns and a machine gun.
We'll learn what we need to then. He makes pipe bombs too. I guess that's a skill?
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Hunting for sport or for food with a machine gun or a pipe bomb is little too extreme for me. But then I guess you could wipe out a whole herd with just one shot. 
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Yeah, he's just a Christian WHacko. Church. Leviticus and guns.Everyone need a friend on the fringe!
The pipe bombs stopped after he made a huge boulder go airborne and it came down in another friends kitchen a quarter mile away!
I've done the skeet thing with his shotguns and will admit to being a great shot, however I have no need of a gun.yet.............
The pipe bombs stopped after he made a huge boulder go airborne and it came down in another friends kitchen a quarter mile away!
I've done the skeet thing with his shotguns and will admit to being a great shot, however I have no need of a gun.yet.............
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I suppose it can make sense to think that tougher gun laws only make it harder for the law abiding to get guns, but statistics prove otherwise.
As noted previously, in countries with strict gun laws there is a drop in gun related deaths. If the laws in the US work so well, then why do these things keep happening? There have been shootings in Canada as well, but not nearly at the same rate. In Canada, the weapon of choice is a knife – not a gun. It’s pretty hard to kill 30 people with a knife.
The right to bear arms was included so that a well-organized militia could take on the British Army and secure an independent America. Well, the task is done. America has been independent for some time now, and I don’t think the British intend to invade. I don’t think Washington and Jefferson thought that the second amendment would be used to justify owning weapons that should only be in the hands of the police or other trained professionals.
If guns work so well in self-defence, why do so many innocent people get killed? Should everyone in the States be expected to own a gun, just because they may be forced to have to use it to protect themselves?
As noted previously, in countries with strict gun laws there is a drop in gun related deaths. If the laws in the US work so well, then why do these things keep happening? There have been shootings in Canada as well, but not nearly at the same rate. In Canada, the weapon of choice is a knife – not a gun. It’s pretty hard to kill 30 people with a knife.
The right to bear arms was included so that a well-organized militia could take on the British Army and secure an independent America. Well, the task is done. America has been independent for some time now, and I don’t think the British intend to invade. I don’t think Washington and Jefferson thought that the second amendment would be used to justify owning weapons that should only be in the hands of the police or other trained professionals.
If guns work so well in self-defence, why do so many innocent people get killed? Should everyone in the States be expected to own a gun, just because they may be forced to have to use it to protect themselves?
If there were no guns, there would be no killings with a gun.
There would be no hunting, least with a gun or rifle..
If there were no knifes, there would be no stabbings and knife killing..
If there were no hatchets, there would be no hatchet killings or accidents...
Without knifes for one thing, how would you cut your meat, veggies, fruits?
I guess we start eating with out fingers...
Oh and what about bows and arrows.. tell that one to the native population.
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