I agree. A gun is only as dangerous/useless/responsible as the person holding it. If you have no training you should NOT own one. If you do own a gun be responsible. Keep it locked and empty around kids. Get training. Be an adult. Never pull it on any one unless you are sure that you know what you are doing. Its pretty common sense.
I pictured a small girlfriend walking around with a gun in Florida. Then I imagined most people on the streets walking around with guns. Now I'm afraid to go to the States in October with my band.
Another thing to consider before buying a gun: How much control would you have of yourself if you got really REALLY angry? I've never hit anyone except my siblings during childhood scuffles, and not hard enough to seriously hurt, yet given provocation and a ready weapon, I could take a life in one crazed second. I know how raging mad I get, and with age my short fuse is burning ever shorter. Pulling a trigger might be too easy...know yourself, that's all I'm saying.
From a certain point of view, guns are good since we are overpopulated anyway.
Yikes. Actually the "best" (most efficient & "fair") population reducers are natural disasters (which a friend of mine refers to as "God's little pruning shears") and I can't say I'm overjoyed about those either. :?
We would have to send a large space ship every hour with at least 5000 people in it just to combat current birth rate!
I volunteer to go on a spaceship! What the hell, I've only ever had one foot on this planet anyway! Meanwhile, as I wait for the technology to be developed, I will do my part for Planet Earth by CONTINUING not to have children. Should be easy enough, as I am STILL celibate! 
Don't worry, Fubar. Everything will be all right! :twisted:
Don't worry, Fubar. Everything will be all right! :twisted:
I hope situation stays as it is until I die. After that, all hell can break loose, I won't care! :grin:
Maybe all hell breaking loose will CAUSE your death. Maybe some epidemic will get you! :shock: Then, in your dying moments, you can muster a smirk as you are sucked into the great void: "See? I was right! We DID have too damn many people!" :razz:
They have come to participate in AFF Appreciation Day. :wink:
When the day is over they will return to their widely dispersed homes!
["wolfish" grin]
I'll help reduce corpses. I get hungry very easily :twisted:
Great! You & Fubar will have the whole planet to yourselves! :grin:
Do not be afraid of me. I am unarmed and I do not have a lawyer. :smile:
wolves don't need "arms" so nyah
Wolves are armed with sharp teeth!
Shhhhh
Love your avatar!
Thank you
There is no way of telling whether or not a home invader will attempt to harm you in any way. In Tennessee, the law is you have to fire a warning shot, and if they persist you can shoot them. I'm not sure what the law on shooting to kill is, but when you think about it, there's no need to kill them anyway, all you really have to do is physically disable them. This would be for your own personal, bodily protection, whether or not your stuff gets ganked is secondary.
I don't own a real weapon, but if somebody meant to do me harm, I would certainly try to disable them if I thought I could. Running and hiding only works for so long, once you're caught you're just as dead as if you lost a struggle.