Responsible Autistic gun owners

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I had a cousin that committed suicide this year with a hand gun. He bought the hand gun at a gun store. The gun store owner did asked some question so he should go through the criminal back ground checks with the state and federal agencies. He past them with a waiting period of time. Then he one day committed suicide. I thank God that he only killed himself and no one else. He himself had no criminal record so he could purchase the hand gun after the waiting period.

I personally own a shotgun myself. Again it is not the guns fault it is the one that pulls that trigger. All guns can be used safely. The process to even get a gun is hard enough. Yes many do buy them legally and some do commit crimes with them. But the vast majority do not commit crimes against anybody.

I am not a right wringer or a left wringer. I believe if You do not have a criminal record You should at in the U.S. have a right buy and purchase even be licensed to own that gun if You desire to own the gun of Your chose.

LOL @ guns being hard to come by in places like New York and LA. I must admit though, if the police dont start responding quicker and more efficiently to calls here, then bringing in gun laws is tempting as here it isnt that unusual for the gangs to terrorise people without much care because they know that conviction and real punishment is unlikely.

In the poorer schemes people regularly have a mob mentality so maybe it wouldnt do them any harm to know that that 'soft target' that they had been hounding would be able to give them back the same damage as they get.

Im against guns now but when i get older and less able to physically defend myself and i get hassle and the police dont take me seriously or take two hours to respond then maybe guns would make the thugs that would assault me and take my pension think twice? Whats the crime statistics for Texas anyway as regards to violent crime, thefts, and violent deaths? It's all very well saying people should be responsible about it but why are so many people not being?

Ascan, Switzerland is a different kettle of fish. Once we have such a responsible, grown up society then we can compare us with them but i think we are closer in gun use to the US if we get guns.

Ok, i might look them up myself. To be fair guns are a bit easier to come by in the black market in New York and LA than London etc because in the US guns are aplenty. It's called overspill. Gun crimes are still much rarer here.

Is it so hard to imagine that not every gun owner has the motive of harming people when they own a gun? I learned to use a firearm at age 14, and have never once been inclined to shoot anyone. There are other reasons to own a gun than the intention of personal violence!

I wouldn't be at all surprised if there were at least one gun to each person where I live, or close to it, yet, while there are gun related homicides, our area certainly isn't renowned for them. To my knowledge, there are many more deaths related to drinking, drugs, and driving, in various deadly combinations.

I think the government are trying to ban,or at least raise the required age of owning airguns because of the amount of underage users and if I remember correctly-a child was killed with one in Scotland(?),it's quite common here for animals to be injured or killed from air gun pellets as a lot of young thugs know they will get away with it.

Speaking of all guns generally,it is prejudice when the responsible legal owners are treated the same as the illegal and irresponsible users,a person who has a gun is often expected to do violent things with it because the people who have problems with them have only heard stories of gun violence,and never stories about the responsible owners.

Wow, a lot of you left-wingers are just as closed-minded and bigoted as you accuse your opposites of being, the #1 indication being how the guy's said that he does not want a gun control debate, and when the other guy points that out, you call him a "right-winger" as an insult. Then we get into all the pseudo-Marxian babble about black/white, rich/poor, etc.... Left-wingers seem to love to toss around "white" and "privelege" as insults too, which is just as petty and despicable as some skinhead who looks at any Jewish person as being a part of some giant conspiracy. Leftists do the same damn thing. Judge a devil by his deed for f*ck's sakes and quit with the self-loathing crap, no one respects people who can't respect themselves.

That person you speak of who might lose the court case, if he was mentally unstable to the point that he really wanted to hurt someone, the lack of a gun would not stop him.... He could use a machete, an axe, a knife, a rock, a lava lamp, his fists.... anything.... I live in Canada where legally obtaining anything outside of having a longgun for hunting or collecting is damn near impossible.... But yet every week in my city, I read about some shooting. These aren't kids using their daddy's shotgun, the primary weapons are 9mm semi-automatic pistols which were obtained off the street. The criminals will always have guns. Also, before guns, people cut each other open with blades aor bludgeoned eachother to death. Should we ban all hard substances or sharp edges?

In my opinion, an autistic person who is into guns would likely be more responsible than an NT, as they tend to take their hobbies very seriously and would be less likely to skip crucial details or procedures such as making sure that the gun is not left loaded within reach of others.

AS for that story about Rosie O'Donnell, what a disgusting pig. What a waste of flesh (and a lot of it at that).... That fat pig would have been roasted if she'd said that to me.

What Rosie ODonnell thing?