The Gun Culture is Somewhat In Denial About Gun Safety.

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...kraftiekortie likes to come to these threads and poke the hornet's nest then cry when he gets stung.

Howdy. I'm a girl and I definitely believe in the Second Amendment. I own two guns (neither of which were built with safeties - a Ruger and a Sig Sauer). I learned how to shoot both in a class setting and have them locked up in a gun case loaded. It's just me and Waldo - no kids. I never grew up with guns so I don't feel totally comfortable around them. I felt the need to have a gun after living on my own. I have a home alarm system, but if someone comes in here the alarm will sound and the company ends up calling to make sure the alarm was real - I could be dead by then, so that's where the guns come in. I live on the top floor, but in the past 5 yrs it has been the top condos that have been broken into. I have them for home safety only. I even have hollow points so if I need to shoot it will be less likely for the bullet to go into the next condo. A pharmacist I worked with said I need a shotgun. I haven't done that yet. I would need someone to help me shoot that as I feel that is a little too much gun for me and my shoulders and I know most definitely that that would shoot the person (forget a bullet) right into the next condo and it would be hard to clean up the mess. The positive would be I wouldn't have to worry about being a good shot.

One thing that is happening now here in Kansas is that people can now conceal and carry WITHOUT a license. It just started this month. I feel uncomfortable about that. I do think a person should qualify first by taking a class (especially on gun laws) and then show they can handle their gun properly and shoot a target. I will not carry a gun with me as I'm scared of having to use it and something happening that shouldn't have happened (like missing my target and shooting someone else, etc) and going to prison. I have things to lose like my nursing license and my job. I can't just be toting a gun around town like Calamity Jane. Usually if you do see a conceal carry person pull their gun it always makes the news. I sure don't need that. However, the oddballs that shouldn't have any guns are the ones running around with one because they don't have anything to lose. Another thing, I'm tired of politics using guns as the problem every time there is a shooting. It gets to be old crap.

Good people need guns. There's just too many crazies out there. It's not always about just the safety of children. We had a trauma happen here. The gunshop I purchased one of my guns from was owned by a husband and wife. She taught me and my Ma how to shoot the guns we purchased. One Friday about 3 months ago 4 thugs ran into the place shooting it up and ended up killing her husband - he died at the hospital I work at. Her husband (me and Ma could swear that they had told us when we bought our guns that he was a cop) shot two of the idiots and one ended up being in our ICU for a couple months. The others ran to houses in back of the gun store and could have hurt other people but were eventually caught. That experience was very upsetting as this woman had just opened this gun shop made specifically for women - to teach them classes in self protection. I believe she reopened the store, but I haven't been back since I buy my bullets online. To be honest, I would be creeped out going back in the store - too many memories. No one will ever talk me into giving up my guns .......unless I'm forced to.

Women are not skewed by over-confidence. They have an objective view of the target.

I believe that kraftiekortie really does respect the Second Amendment and the opinions of others. He isn't a cheerleader for it, but he doesn't undermine it either. He probably doesn't need to be to give those of us who are advocates some free range. That is how I felt about the matter until 2001 and read Jonathan Rausch's Salon commentary about "Pink pistols" ( http://www.salon.com/2000/03/14/pistol ). For me, it was a whole new understanding of how the amendment had relevance to today's problem of violent hate crimes. I was hooked and have been an advocate since then.

I've known people who cannot "see the forest for the trees" if they feel their "gun rights" are being violated. This supersedes all else. Weapons which are not specifically used for hunting, like semi-automatic/automatic weapons, are quite dangerous when placed in the wrong hands.

I believe in the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms to defend one's self. But if somebody tells me that semi-automatic/automatic weapons are dangerous and should be banned, then I would concede this, and settle for plain ole rifles when I go out hunting.

I don't believe the banning of dangerous weapons is a violation of one's "gun rights."

Then what about this?
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You should know by now that a "but" after "I beleive in the 2nd amendment" doesnt fly.
Then as expected the semiautophobia follows.
What more do you need?

^^^

And that's thinking in more
colors than BLACK
AND
WHITE..

Yeah, I am a big advocate for planting one's legal or political flag (claiming victory) as soon as it is reasonable. As such, LGBT Americans, like firearm-owning Americans from five to seven years ago, have WON. Leave those who don't quite see it yet to their own devices. They will learn over time.

"This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."

If you wish to take the red pill, PM me.

I gobbled the Red Pill many years ago!

Leave those who don't quite see it yet to their own devices. They will learn over time.