Firearms. Yea or Nay?

[lizbud]

Here's a true gun nut & a dangerous man.

http://www.theindychannel.com/slides...88/detail.html

[JenBKR]

I say yes to guns, one county in my state has a law that states that you must own a gun within your household or pay a fine. The crime rate has dropped dramatically there. I say the only use for guns is self defense, you really shouldnt use them for anything else.

What?? Am I reading this right? You are saying that there is a county that has a law that if you do not have a gun in the house you have to pay a fine? I'm sorry, but I think you have that wrong. They can't make a law like that.....

Here's a true gun nut & a dangerous man.

http://www.theindychannel.com/slides...88/detail.html

Wow...really scary. Imagine how the neighbors must feel knowing that they were living so close to all of that...

I am conflicted on the subject of guns. I don't like them personally, but I don't have a problem with hunting. My husband hunts and has guns in the house, but they are kept in a locked cabinet, unloaded. We don't even keep the bullets in the house. Guns just make me nervous...but I think that if they were outlawed at this point, criminals would be the only ones to have them.

[Puckstop31]

What?? Am I reading this right? You are saying that there is a county that has a law that if you do not have a gun in the house you have to pay a fine? I'm sorry, but I think you have that wrong. They can't make a law like that.....

It may sounds crazy... But if something is 'stupid', but works, then it is not stupid.

http://www.rense.com/general9/gunlaw.htm

Granted, I do not see this working in the "big city", but out in flyover country, it works just fine.

Guns just make me nervous...but I think that if they were outlawed at this point, criminals would be the only ones to have them.

The only way to conquer a fear is to face it. Perhaps have your hubby take you to a range one day? Guns do not load, aim or fire all by themselves. Properly handled, they are no more dangerous than any other tool. (Except of course to the intended target, but that is another discussion.)

[JenBKR]

The only way to conquer a fear is to face it. Perhaps have your hubby take you to a range one day? Guns do not load, aim or fire all by themselves. Properly handled, they are no more dangerous than any other tool. (Except of course to the intended target, but that is another discussion.)

I did try to shoot a gun once on a range, quite a few years ago. I shot it once and about shot my foot off I said right then and there, never again.

[Edwina's Secretary]

What?? Am I reading this right? You are saying that there is a county that has a law that if you do not have a gun in the house you have to pay a fine? I'm sorry, but I think you have that wrong. They can't make a law like that.....

Sadly it is true...

And if a county passed a law saying everyone who lives in that county must smoke cigarettes or pay a fine? Cigarettes are legal and serve the same purpose as guns -- killing.

Everyone would be in an uproar. But gun owners have a very, very powerful lobbying group.

[JenBKR]

I'm sorry, but I would not live in a county that had a law that people had to have a gun. I am absolutely astonished that that could even happen. I live in a small hick town, and I would move in a second if they tried to pass something like that.....

[Puckstop31]

Here's a true gun nut & a dangerous man.

http://www.theindychannel.com/slides...88/detail.html

Good. But, whay are you so quick to judge? Hopefully he is still innocent until proven guilty.

If he ends up being convicted (he probably will, the mortar is almost certainly not legal), a good example of criminal control.