butternutsquash -> RE: ***Unmoderated Gun rights debate - Self Defense to 2nd Amendment *** (11/9/2013 8:19:07 AM)
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The kinds of circumstances under which you would actually have a use for a gun are most likely extremely limited. Although you would be glad to have it under those circumstances, it is stupid to carry one of those ridiculous things around on a regular basis. It is simply stupid. It is a liability. If there were an outbreak of rabies in your area, you might want to carry a gun. If your area were struck by a hurricane and there were looters breaking into houses in your area, you might want to have a handgun within reach. If there had been a rash of home-invasions resulting consistently in injury or death to the occupants, having a properly maintained handgun in a touch-pad safe next to your bed might be a good idea. BUT FOR GOD SAKE, DON'T CARRY ONE AROUND WITH YOU EVERYWHERE YOU GO. IT MAKES YOU LOOK LIKE A PARANOID, DANGEROUS FREAK, AND IT DOES MORE HARM TO YOU THAN GOOD. YOU MIGHT BE TOO MENTALLY DEFICIENT TO UNDERSTAND THIS, BUT IT HAPPENS TO BE A FACT. DON'T SLEEP WITH A GUN UNDER YOUR PILLOW OR MATTRESS: IT IS UNNECESSARILY DANGEROUS AND STUPID. Let me repeat it: guns might have their uses. The problem is that there has been a rash of people who are severely uneducated about them, and they have some really stupidly romantic ideas about them. There has been a rash of people who think they are going to be everybody's hero and shoot up the bad guys or something, and they don't seem to understand that this is not how it works in real life. People need to stop living in fantasy-land. I grew up with guns. My father taught me the proper handling and use of a gun when I was a fucking toddler. I am more familiar with the damn things than the majority of human beings. I have a large number of guns in my house, mostly shotguns and rifles and one revolver. However, I would not carry one with me in a high-crime area. It would be a liability. It is something that could be stolen from me and used against an innocent person. I don't have any illusion that I would be able to whip out a gun in time to shoot a mugger: in real life, a mugging is something that happens very very fast, and you are normally too confused and scared to actually react intelligently. You suddenly have a gun pressed into your stomach or kidney as you get out of your car, you are being shoved around violently, the mugger takes what he can, and he runs off into the night. You will not have time to react. On the off chance that you were to reach for your weapon, odds of him shooting you and leaving your body twitching on the ground are a lot higher than the odds of you shooting the bad guy dead and going home covered in glory as some kind of hero out of your stupid macho fantasies. By the way, if you were to shoot a fleeing mugger after being robbed, which you might actually do out of anger, you could be sent to prison for homicide or manslaughter. Being, in your own mind, "the good guy," does not put you above the law. Shooting someone's misguided teenage child when you don't have to is an evil act. Again, a gun is, under most circumstances, a liability. YOU ARE NOT SPECIAL. YOU ARE A DELUSIONAL TWIT. AN IDIOT WITH A GUN IS JUST A BIGGER IDIOT.
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