Are owning a gun a bad thing?

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I guess this has to do with the personal defense side of the argument.

It’s not so much a fear thing as a precaution.
I don’t live in fear of having a major auto accident every day but I wear my seat belts because of the potential. (The fine for not wearing them in this state is negligible enough not to be a consideration).



I don’t see a logical statement here as it applies to this debate. A gun is not a fix-all and no one has said it is.



I think I can say that most of us on the pro-gun side of this debate avoid situations when possible. I know I do but sometimes the situation finds us. It happens just often enough to at least warrant consideration and the mindset to go with it.



That’s funny, I don’t feel frightened. Thanks for enlightening me about myself, though.
I guess I’ll go hide under my bed now………………..NOT!

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin

Yes, imagine that, don't ban guns, but the patriot act is ok.

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"If ye love wealth better than liberty,
the tranquility of servitude
better than the animating contest of freedom,
go home from us in peace.
We ask not your counsels or your arms.
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.
May your chains set lightly upon you,
and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."

-Samuel Adams, Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776

I have run into rather difficult plumbing problems many times in my life - far more than perilous situations requiring a gun. I do not carry an adjustable pipe wrench on my belt.

Who ever said the patriot act was okay?

Yeah like you're going to run into a plumbing situation everywhere you go...

Fox News et all and specifically Glenn Beck before 2009 (The year in which government control suddenly became bad again). Since Inuyasha is a Fox News zombie , I was just showing him the inconsistencies he has in his mind thanks to Fox News.

Yeah, like you're going to run into a maniac with a gun or a homicidal thug everywhere you go. I have lived almost 85 years and been to a lot of places and never run into a killer with a gun. On the other hand, there's lots of plumbing I've had to deal with. Where the hell do you live? Somalia?

You don't have to live in Somalia to be in an area with a high chance of being put in a life threatening situation. Just because one person has never had an incident happen to them doesn't mean another person might have several.

I don't think owning a gun is a bad thing. There are some gun cultures in the world, however, that definitely need to take it down a notch and go on an introspective hike while contemplating their impact on the rest of us who don't want anything to do with guns unless it involves deer steak

I can only act on my own personal and rather varied and very long experience and come to the conclusion that habitual gun carriers suffer from a form of paranoia.

I think some of them see it as a second C**K

Oh, it's much better than that; is your "weapon" made of steel and does it spit fire?

You just helped me figure out why I didn't get laid tonight

There are two obvious dangers with carrying a lethal weapon. One is that it guarantees safety and the owner is more likely than normal to enter into dangerous situations. The second is that judgment as to what is a danger can be highly distorted and innocents will suffer. These are dangers much more to avoid than to indulge in the false luxury that you are safe with a gun.
I have heard this from a former gun carrier who decided it was too dangerous to have a weapon.