Nehil wrote:
Nah I'm not saying anyones handing aout guns of any sort, but it's very easy to get hold of them in the US. And I ment shooting your wife when she woke up in the middle of the night and you mistake her for a burglar.
It's easier to get them illegally than legally. To purchase a gun in Illinois I have to obtain an FOID card which takes at least a month if not longer to arrive from Springfield, pass a background check, and then deal with a waiting period. Or I could go to downtown Chicago and buy a stolen gun for half the price in about an hour. For some reason criminals don't seem to want to obey gun control laws....strange, huh?
Hate to burst your bubble but a gun owner shooting his wife in the middle of the night is a ridiculously rare occurance. Perhaps you haven't noticed my frequent use of the word "responsible" when I speak of gun owners. For the record, here are the four crucial safety rules that any responsible gun owner etches into his brain and religiously practices.
http://www.thefiringline.com/Misc/safetyrules.html wrote:
RULE I: ALL GUNS ARE ALWAYS LOADED
RULE II: NEVER LET THE MUZZLE COVER ANYTHING YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO DESTROY
RULE III: KEEP YOUR FINGER OFF THE TRIGGER UNTIL YOUR SIGHTS ARE ON THE TARGET
RULE IV: BE SURE OF YOUR TARGET
So no, a responsible gun owner would not accidentally shoot his wife in the middle of the night - at least not in this country. Resonsible gun owners tend to take pride in their strict adherence to these rules.
Wouldn't it be better if guns were banned? A total ban, all guns would be confiscated. You dad seems to be a nice and responsible man. But I would never put something that I did use to kill someone on the wall, that's just crazy, how can you be proud of hurting another human, it doesn't matter under what circumstances.
What would happen if all guns were banned?
1. I assume you'd still want police and military folk to be armed, otherwise you'd have a hard time fighting off an enemy force. In which case, you've disarmed the people and left them without the ability to fend off a potentially tyrannical government. Couldn't possibly happen, you say? That's what the people in Germany, Russia, Cambodia, and Iraq figured as well. We all see how wrong they were.
2. I've stated this many times: you cannot uninvent the gun. They are not very complex machines; unless you ban the knowledge of internal combustion it will always, always, always, always be possible for someone to construct their own gun. Long before there were massive machines that formed the guns we use today people made them by hand and they can sure as hell do it again.
There are half a billion guns on this planet and, being the simple machines that they are, can all last decades if not centuries (as some have) with proper care and maintenance. Do you really think that every single gun owner in the world, including the criminals, will just hand over their firearms and leave themselves utterly defenseless against the really bad people of the world? Do you think that banning guns will stop people from commiting murder or rape? All it will do is leave those people who could potentially
defend themselves against those criminals without a proper means to do so.
Yes, my father was a very responsible man. Eight years as an Army Ranger and later in the Special Forces (teaching people in
other countries how to use guns to properly defend against tyrannical governments) and over a decade on the SWAT team of a major police department will do that. How was he proud of his sniper rifle? Because that weapon in my father's hands saved the lives of countless American lives in Desert Storm and quite a few conflicts in the 80s. His actions, his "hunting" of other human beings, were part of war. War isn't pretty, it was never meant to be. Snipers are the first line of defense in any armed conflict and their jobs are to
preserve lives with their ability to take out strategic targets and personnel. Believe me, this game doesn't come close to showing you what military snipers do in real life. Not to mention that as a sniper for the police department he saved the lives of many innocent civilians and victims by being able to eliminate threats with a single shot.
Snipers save lives, no question about it. That's why he was proud of it.
Even if I would hurt someone in self defense, I would feel like shit.
I'm sorry but I find that unnatural. Why on earth would you ever feel remorse for defending yourself against someone who's only intention is to harm you or your family?