CrocodileStunter
Well-Known Member
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/21/us/las-vegas-strip-pedestrians-hit/RRREEELLAAAAX. Nobody is coming for your guns. Also, you described exactly what a responsible gun owner does -- leave it at home in safe storage unless planning to take it to a range and practice with it. We can differ about whether or not people with the right to own a powerful killing machine that can kill at a distance should also be willing to take a class or two and demonstrate proficiency. But I think that's a small point. I applaud that you are already doing the one thing that would eliminate most accidental injuries, fatalities and homicides.
Can you agree with @whitebb2727 that: "We, as gun owners, need to step up and provide an example for safe, competent ownership and carry."?
I keep hearing that we have a people problem not a gun problem and I understand the logic behind it. I just don't see enough gun owners take ownership for the people problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Monica_Farmers_Market_crash
http://usa.streetsblog.org/2014/11/26/still-no-charges-for-driver-who-plowed-through-protests-in-minneapolis/
Did anyone Shed tears for the poor gambler, or the defenseless people buying some kale and artisanal honey or the distraught protestors of Police shooting unnarmed civilians? Why don't we make cars that only have 30 hp and re covered in 4 ft of foam to protect all these defensless citizens while we're at it lets make all cars play yakety sax over a megaphone so the blind can hear them coming? Doesn't all that sound a little ridiculous?