Yeah, people need to treat guns like dangerous things and not like lifestyle accessories. If nothing else, if you have kids in your house at all, your guns need to be locked away.

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I own a pistol. It is secure. I'm a demonstrated good shot, and I trained with my husband, former military and cop and forest ranger. I think a lot of gun owners are idiots. I learned to shoot because I wanted to be competent with something that was terrifying and dangerous and ubiquitous in the area I live. I'm not going to be a good guy with a gun who's going to save the day, but I know what a gun can do and can't do. I didn't want a gun to be a mystery.

If a gun ban went into effect, I'd turn my pistol in. Until then, I'll keep practicing.

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 If nothing else, if you have kids in your house at all, your guns need to be locked away.

It's not just that, though. Guns are stolen and used in crimes all the time!

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I would also like to say that I know a lot of gun owners who take safety and responsibility very seriously.

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> my husband, former military and cop and forest ranger

I didn't know this, Connie. I've always thought Forest Ranger sounded like the coolest job, but I've read quite a few articles lately about how deadly / scary it can be dealing with people who bring violence / crime / guns with them to the parks.

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Yes, our park rangers have absurdly dangerous jobs. The Everglades are frequently used for landing planes smuggling drugs, people, and all kinds of bad stuff.

I've known way too many people that are responsible but still had their guns stolen. My back door neighbor 3 times! (and I have never been broken into, which shows some targeting there, pun intended) One time they knocked his dog out with a shovel (he recovered), another time they hauled away the huge secure gun safe. Of course after the first time they probably made return trips at intervals assuming the weapons were replaced.

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I like what David says about gun ownership.

In my western PA hometown and surrounds, there are a lot of people who count on whitetail deer hunting for their winter food.

And there are gentlemen farmers around who raise game birds for big shoots, literally it was one of the places Cheney used to go to to hunt and raise $.

I don't know what you do to argue against guns for either of those groups.

This makes me think of The Walking Dead by the way. All the shooting in recent eps. I hate it, and I'm sick of it. I think Kirkman is sadist or sociopath or something. I'm on the fence whether I'm going to keep watching. Their PR effort to reach out to fans is the only thing that got me to watch the first ep of the new season. The last two deaths by Negan may have been too much killing of core cast. I don't care if they want to emphasize that their world is precarious, they have to have characters I care about to keep me on board.

Brought to you by, I'm supposed to paying my bills and doing other important things on the computer instead. It's just like old times, when I was working!

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I really don't care if you like to go target shooting or whatever. I don't really think you're safer with a gun in your purse. Nobody needs some of those high-powered ones. On an unrelated topic: I wish my mother could believe in me without acting like I'm still a college freshman with the world on a string. I think 44 is a little late for "other fish in the sea," but I could be wrong.

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I don't really think you're safer with a gun in your purse. Nobody needs some of those high-powered ones.

Wrod

Hubby ran across lots of drug farms in the National Forests of California, though no guards, only some booby traps. Though his shins were absolutely covered with shrapnel wounds because a fire cooked off some survivalist's ammo and weapons store.

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Hooray for Amazon.

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