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Anonymous
| My husband wants to buy a gun too - we live in DC. He wants it for "protection", I have told him over my dead body. I think it is fine to own guns if you are a hunter or a person you regularly visit a shooting range but to have it just in case some breaks in while you are home just seems silly to me, unless you plan to sleep with the gun under your pillow or at the edge of the mattress. |
Anonymous
| I would love to own a gun to protect my property. However, the District government knows what's best for me and my family so theyve decided that tax paying citizens shouldnt own one. Criminals on the other hand are free to have as many as they please. |
jsteele
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You may want to update your understanding of DC's laws. It's always been legal to own rifles. Now it is also legal to own handguns. |
Anonymous
| We have hand guns, rifles and ak47's. DH hunts and shoots as a hobby. My 14 year old joined the NRA through boy scouts and is an award winning target shooter. Educate yourself people - guns don't kill, people kill. |
Anonymous
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"Damaged individuals"?!? Okay, you have a warped idea of why people own guns.
I would say that 90% of my male family members own guns, perhaps more than that. My husband and I may be the only holdouts, and that is because neither of us is a hunter or a law enforcement agent. The rest of my male family members hunt. Few own handguns - and if they do, the handguns are usually war relics from a WWII relative or similar. Most own rifles and/or shotguns. AND, because they understand and respect guns, the guns are properly stored - meaning locked up with ammo stored separately. Guns just for fun tucked into your nightstand or on your closet shelf are the kind of guns that get people into trouble. You're more likely to have a family accident than ward off an intruder in that case. But guns also serve a legitimate purpose for hunteres, and it's ridiculous to call them all damaged individuals. And FYI, my stepdad killed himself with a handgun shot to the head when I was 15. I am a person who should hate guns. I don't see any reason for anyone other than a law enforecemnt agent to own a handgun and keep in in the home. If you're a fan of range shooting, keep it locked up at the range. Pistols in the home, not my favorite. But you can't paint everyone with the same brush. Some people are irresponsible assholes, other are decent people who operate safely and responsibly. |
Anonymous
| I own 3 shotguns for duck hunting. We keep them locked in a gun safe. I dont see the need to own a gun for protection. I had a step-brother who had a handgun and kept it in his car. One night he was being mugged, grabbed his gun, his gun was taken forcefully from him. He was shot and killed by his own gun. |
Anonymous
It's incredibly difficult to get a handgun license, I don't think they've ever even allowed anyone to get one. Again, why should they get to control my second amendment rights, but they wont allow strong crime bills, like the one proposed by the mayor last year? |
Anonymous
Should I laugh or cry after reading this? |
Anonymous
You should remove your head from your butt. |
Anonymous
By your choice of words I can tell you own a gun. |
jsteele
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It appears that you are actually more interested in polemics than in owning a gun. If you wanted to own a gun, you might take rudimentary steps to understand how to do so. The government has issued a number of licenses since the law was changed. The most difficult part of the process is finding an authorized gun dealer -- there is only one in DC. If you really want to own a handgun, here are the steps to so: http://mpdc.dc.gov/mpdc/cwp/view,a,1237,q,566982.asp BTW, I don't own a gun and don't really approve of handguns in the city. But, I am sick to death of hearing people grip about their 2nd Amendment rights. I'm much more concerned about our 4th amendment rights which are under much greater threat. |
Anonymous
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even people who use guns for work make mistakes... like the detective in the snow ball fight.
why would any other person take a chance and keep a gun at home with children?!?!?! |
Anonymous
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I know more than a few people who own guns - it's a surprisingly varied lot. (though mostly Republican, incidentally.) My daughter's dad owns several guns - he's former military and a current reservist. His father owns guns - he's a successful dentist (and former military man) and occasional hunter. Two of my female friends own them - both work on the Hill. A couple other guys I know own guns and they're totally white-collar, college-educated, etc. It's surprisingly common amongst people you wouldn't expect.
I'm not a fan, and I'm a supporter of waiting periods to purchase and strict registration laws. But I'm ok with my ex having guns in the same house as my daughter - he is very smart and very responsible and he keeps them unloaded and locked in a gun safe. (that was a condition of him being allowed overnight visits with our daughter.) If something ever happened, though - if he left the guns out - I'd take away visitation rights in a second. |
Anonymous
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I was raised on the easternshore of Maryland. I was raised to respect guns and to understand what they were for. My father has a bolt action shotgun and a small handgun and my grandfather has a good number of guns that he has collected over the years (his fathers hunting rifle, ect.). I was never interested in learning to shoot so I was never taught.
My husband was also raised with guns and instructed the BB range at the regional boyscout camp. When we were married I knew that he had a handgun and a rifle and I told him that if they were going to be in my house I wanted to know how to shoot them and how to know if they were loaded or not. To me guns are not to be feared but respected. If the OP's husband wants to buy a handgun, fine... but if I were his wife I would be absolutely certain he had taken and passed a gun safety course, and had spent some time on a firing range BEFORE he purchased it. I would also want to be involved in the purchase of the gun safe that he would be keeping it in. If these things were too much to ask then he doesn't really want a gun he wants a toy... For what it is worth I am about as liberal as you can get from a political stand point, but to me lack of knowledge breeds curiosity, especially in children. While we probably won't teach our son to hunt, we will teach him the proper respect, care and handling of firearms. |
Anonymous
| We each have one handgun, for home defense. We enjoy the shooting range as an activity about twice a year. We are totally normal people with two kids. It just isn't that odd to own a gun. |