Who else owns a gun for personal protection?Some of my family don't think that's the answer.What about you?
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I agree that one cannot always count on the government for protection.  I believe in using the best tools to maximize my safety and the safety of my family.  Firearms happen to be some of the best tools for personal defense.\n\nYou might encourage your family members to look at the website below.  Much of what people believe about the dangers of firearms is inaccurate.  The link includes references, so you can always send them to the sources.
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I'm a police officer, and I am all for law-abiding citizens owning guns, on one condition: If you're gonna have a gun, learn how to use it. If you don't learn how to use your gun, don't practice with it regularly, don't keep it clean and operational, then it will be more of a danger than a protection.\n\nAny person who is considering gun ownership should take a firearms safety course, which are offered by many different organizations, including many police departments. It's also important to practice with a firearm regularly, because, as with any other skill, if you don't use it, you lose it. Having a gun does no good if you can't hit what you're aiming at. Equally important is proper care and maintenance of the gun, which really just comes down to periodic cleaning and oiling. And of course, if you're going to have a gun, just make sure you follow all the local guidelines to ensure that you have all the necessary permits.\n\nIf a law-abiding citizen learns gun safety, practices with their gun, and keeps it in good working order, than I have absolutely no problem at all with them having a gun. In fact, I've seen more than one life saved because the "victim" had a gun and knew how to use it.
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It only seems that people hate the NRA.  What they want is a reduction of use of guns for violence, and they see the NRA as "for violence" because of their strong support of the 2nd amendment.\n\nPeople are not very precise in their thinking, especially when emotional issues are "informing" their thought processes.  That is true of both sides of the gun issue.  It is a hard issue because both sides have valid points.\n\nOn the one hand, look at all these people who really don't know anything about guns but go ahead and keep them lying around - their kids get 'em and shoot themselves or their siblings, or the adults get drunk and shoot themselves or others, etc.  And they get mad at somebody and go get their gun and start shooting in the "heat of passion."  Most people really don't have it together enough to be trusted with a firearm.  Some people feel the solution is to keep them from having them in the first place.\n\nOn the other hand, there are lots of people who were brought up in a culture that used and understood guns and use them very responsibly.  But they don't always understand that most people don't share their culture and really don't have a clue - they just have guns, and not always for a good reason.\n\nTo me, the 2nd amendment is quite clear and the government is prohibited from abridging the right to keep and bear arms.  Courts can distort and corrupt the English language to get around the plain meaning of the 2nd, and if they can get away with doing that to the 2nd, they can get away with doing it to all the amendments.\n\nI am not in favor of letting every dumbbutt have a gun, and I don't think that anybody really needs to have guns designed specifically for military purposes.  But I agree with the constituion that it is a good idea not to abridge the right to keep and bear ordinary arms.  The mere mention, in a dependent clause, in the 2nd amendment of a governmental interest in preserving the right does nothing to qualify the right.  Doing violence to the language is a bad precedent indeed.\n\nSo if the county really, as a whole country, wants to ban guns, it has to formally amend the constituion to do so.\nOn this front, I would like to see the NRA get tough with the courts and forcefully "correct their language skills" and point out that that that judge in the 1930's who claimed that the 2nd amendment allowed only a "militia" to keep and bear arms skewered the language to get a favored result and I would like the NRA to additionally point out that this kind of shenanigans, applied to the other amendments, will destroy the constituion.\n\nThat's in addition to any other good deeds the NRA does :).
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personally I am not but in my area I am kind of rare.   I was raised in a California and currently live in North East Texas.\nI believe fears are directly related to up bringing \nI don't have a gun but I am not afraid of them nor do I have a problem with you having one.  The house next to mine is empty and all I pray is that a good honest family moves in.  Muslim, hindu, mexican, black-I could careless.
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Stop the craziness.  . . end violence.  A regular citizen has no need to own a handgun.  Read the statistics and you'll see what I mean-- regular domestic squabbles turn into murders when there's a handgun available. . . burglars who break in use homeowners' own guns to kill them. . . kids who are shoplifting a candy bar are shot to death by vigilantes (yes, shoplifitng is wrong, but not worthy of MURDER. . .)  Please please rethink your reason for owning a gun.  Until there are psychiatric tests given when people want to buy guns, there will be more and more violence.  You don't need a gun to be a real man.
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In the area where I live, there are Gun Safety Education classes where a person can learn this kind of thing.  I took the class along with a local Boy Scout troop.  You can contact the NRA (National Rifle Association), who should have certified instructors in your area.\n\nI don't own any guns and I don't really like shooting for fun or anything like that, but I agree with you that it's important to learn.
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That is just what I want. A felon with a firearm. Don`t break the law, and you do not lose your rights. I hope that a nobody like you does not succeed in changing the law that our law abiding forefathers fought for. I am a law abiding citizen, and guess what? I have a license to carry a gun to protect myself and my home. I was able to get the license because I am not a felon, and I earned the right.
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Convicted felons and people with active DVOs cannot have guns.  I don't think it would be your fault if you gave one to them though if you did not know.
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I carry a 1911A1 .45... Legally. I don't know if I'm more polite though. It's kind of like spiderman... I'm held to a higher level of law for having the permit to carry a gun, thus I have more of an obligation to respect the law that offers that permit to me.\n\nWhen people ask for my ID I offer it to them. When they see it is a CWP... Often they freak out... They should be more freaked out about those who carry without a permit.\n\n While in line for breakfast one morning at McDonalds, a 17 year-old boy in front of me pulled a gun from his pocket and demanded all the cash. I inturn put mine to his head and simply said "Apoligize". He put the gun down and the police held me for 4 hours until they got all the facts. I'll never know if I did the correct thing, McDonalds thanked me. and the kid was crying and pee'd his pants right where he stood.\n\n I still have nightmares about it. I carry for personal reasons and PRAY I never need to pull it out.\n\n If I was mugged... I'd freely give up my money and coat and not pull it. If my life, or anothers was as risk... Who could ever say what they would honestly do. I'd never judge someone either way too.\n\nSome of you may feel guns are evil. Or only evil people own guns. However you may feel that is your feelings. I have no right to bash you about them. I only wish you respect those who do have them LEGALLY and took the time to get the permit. Because there are so many who don't.\n\nDon't fear the gun... It won't do a thing unless there is a finger...\nI know though that I was the most scared at McDonalds that day. Not the kid who peed his pants....\n\nJust my 2 cents.\n\n\nNow... What was the question?
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hahahahaha, when i was 12, i had my .22 and Winchester 16 gauge shotgun.  It just depends.  When i was 12, i had 2 uncles that whenever i would shoot around, i would go all apeshit nervous about not screwing up and i would always do semi-unsafe things.  I never hurt anything besides game, but i took hunters safety and knew perfectally right from wrong w/ guns, but i would feel so intimidated by them, so i would *uck up now and then, but i was only human.
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Well it depends if they are armed or not. \nPersonally I would get out my 12 guage load a round and wouldn't hesitate to shoot if necesscary. I would calmy explain to them I am not afraid to use the weapon.
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I have told there is a town in Texas (?) where it is mandatory for all allowable residents to carry a gun at all times, they are given instruction on it's use etc. The street gun crime rate is almost non-existent. Gun toting criminals have found out the hard way, to go somewhere else.\nSensible use of guns should be applauded.\nTake this scenario\nGuy pulls gun on couple walking back from theatre, he hears from all around him, "hold it one moment sucker" and finds that maybe 20 people have pulled their guns and pointing them at him, at the same time due to their training the couple have dropped to the ground and have their own guns out.... not a very auspicious moment for the mugger.\n\nI am not advocating the carrying of guns without due training, that is like giving a 10 year old the keys to a Porche... crazy.....
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Parents are definitely responsible for their children's crimes if they contribute to them. A gun owner has a responsibility to keep it locked up, and if he does not abide by that responsibility, he should have to be punished for his part in the crime.
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To me it is. In no way does a Gun "protect you". It's not a sheild, it's a weapon. If you love one another, you wouldn't carry a weapon to injure or possibly kill anyone.
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Yes we are few and far between but we are a growing group.  I have been hunting since I was big enough for my dad to pack me from stand to pit.  I just got my second buck a couple of days ago.  Gun is in here although I am a fan of my muzzleloader so it will be what I use.  Duck season is also in so I have a many of sleepless time ahead.  Goodluck on the big one though,
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My family hunts deer and ducks. I have done both, but haven't been very successful.  Both sides of my family have a long history of hunting.  People think its wierd that I grew up with lots of guns in my house just outside of Chicago, but that's the way my parents grew up!
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I just answered a question about silencers and automatic weapons stating the same thing you just wrote here! There seems to be a lot of uninformed children on this section who seem to think just because they play Xbox they're suddenly a firearms expert.I don;t claim to be an expert by any means, but I would think after over 30 years of shooting experience i would know a little something about firearms and firearms laws. I'll be the 1st to say "In my opinion" instead of stating my opinion as a fact.If these kids on here would do a little research before spouting off their uninformed ignorant opnions about topics they know nothing about, we'd all be much better off.