What the 2nd Ammendment is for

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by hi_im_god

how many people posting on this thread have actually used their gun to confront an intruder?

just raise your hand.

now all those with overwrought paranoid fantasies about the dangers of the world and the need for all of us to arm ourselves, please just continue exposing your friends and family to one bad judgement.

but it's ok to have overwrought fantasies about your neighbor owning a gun, and how that's sooo dangerous?
i've had guns around me my entire life. happy to say that my siblings all grew up safely, as have my kids. not one shot fired in anger. can say the same for my extended family, as well as my husbands...

i don't have any fantasies about it one way or the other. but i'm no more comfortable in losing that right as i would be any of the others we're supposed to have guaranteed to us.
if you don't want a gun, you don't have to have one. i'm not forcing ownership on you, and i'd appreciate if you not literally force your feelings about it on me.

[hi_im_god]

Originally Posted by Danzig

but it's ok to have overwrought fantasies about your neighbor owning a gun, and how that's sooo dangerous?
i've had guns around me my entire life. happy to say that my siblings all grew up safely, as have my kids. not one shot fired in anger. can say the same for my extended family, as well as my husbands...

i don't have any fantasies about it one way or the other. but i'm no more comfortable in losing that right as i would be any of the others we're supposed to have guaranteed to us.
if you don't want a gun, you don't have to have one. i'm not forcing ownership on you, and i'd appreciate if you not literally force your feelings about it on me.

mine isn't an overwrought fantasy.

it's a fact. anyone owning a gun is more likely to kill an acquaintance or themselves than a stranger.

the fantasy is that the problem lies in the stunning lack of guns in this country. we just haven't armed ourselves well enough.

anyone here that wants to protect their family would be better served by getting rid of the guns in their house.

that isn't a personal attack. it's a statistic.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by hi_im_god

mine isn't an overwrought fantasy.

it's a fact. anyone owning a gun is more likely to kill an acquaintance or themselves than a stranger.

the fantasy is that the problem lies in the stunning lack of guns in this country. we just haven't armed ourselves well enough.

anyone here that wants to protect their family would be better served by getting rid of the guns in their house.

that isn't a personal attack. it's a statistic.

like i said somewhere above, since most murder victims know their killer, you're right. i have no idea tho the #'s of folks killed accidentally. i also read and posted on here that 55% of gun deaths each year are suicide. but our suicide rates are in line with other countries.

at any rate, this thread has been a long one. props to everyone for keeping it relatively clean...
at any rate, i doubt any minds were changed one way or the other- or that they ever will be.