Re: gun rights

Posted by Stephanie Tambien on January 15, 2013, 8:02 pm, in reply to "Re: gun rights"
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Thank you for posting this topic. As a Canadian across the border from what is one of the most dangerous countries in the world, I think about arming myself against Americans, not grizzlies, for the first time in my life. I would rather build the Great Wall of Canada though (with our water on our side of it) than risk shooting a friend. I have been a good shot since I was 5 yrs old but when we played Cowboys and Indians (sorry, they were more innocent times and I was actually a minority "white man" in my northern town) if we happened to point the play gun or stick acting as such at another kid, my father barreled out of the house and gave us what for. Guns were to kill and were never, not even in play, not even if they were only a stick pretending to be a gun, to be pointed at another human. We knew what guns did. We ate shot caribou and had to shoot our pets when they were injured and bury them in the yard. I hated cartoons where animals were shot and came back to life. I knew my cats and dogs stayed dead. Many people nowadays are too far removed from the actuality of death and those that aren't are so hardened to it as to be darn near sociopaths. The arguments say if we restrict rapid fire military grade weapons only the criminals will have them. Not so. England and many other countries have done very well restricting guns. Google gun deaths in other countries. Where there is a will there is a way and the will in the US of A is FOR gun deaths. The US is up there with very dangerous countries to visit and live in. Not Seattle probably, but south and east, yep.

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