jeepwheeler previously posted:
"I am glad to see BOA do this, im not a gun supporter and wouldnt mind seeing guns removed from the streets. All guns have done is kill and maim. I get nervous around them as well. But this is my opinion."
I'm not anti-gun, but I grew up in NYC where we don't have them, and I'm still surprised that people carry them here where there is so little crime. I grew up thinking all hunters were rednecked morons, but since moving to Colorado I've realized that that is not the case. At all. It's just a culture that I did not grow up around, and I've changed my opinion about hunters and CCP folks. Except for Dick Cheney. I was robbed once at shotgun-point on Staten Island as a teenager, they made us empty our pants pockets, take off our jackets, drop them and run away without looking back. If I had been carrying a gun they'd have that too, I'd never have been able to draw it. That's the downside to CC, things happen in an instant and usually the bad guy has been planning it, it's not a high-noon deal it's an ambush. In a perfect world the bad guys wouldn't have guns, but I think that at this point we are like Mickey Mouse and the brooms, removing them from "the streets" would be ideal but would also take a wizard to actually make it happen. Even if you took every gun off the street today, there are manufacturers all over the world making and selling them every day, they just keep coming. If I could, I'd make handguns only available to Police and Military, but anyone who passed a background check could have all the hunting rifles they want. Problem is that is a checkers answer to a chess question.
I also think the "guns don't kill" arguement is pointless rhetoric and semantics, they are our only publicly available killing machine and they don't care what you call them. Technically it's the front of the bullet that kills. It depends on how you want to look at it, but a gun is a single purpose tool designed exlusively to kill, that's what they were made for. Regardless of how you want to define a gun, using it comes back down to personal responsibility and judgement. "God made men, Sam Colt made them equal." I'd add equally responsible.