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Originally posted by red-beard
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I guess you could say that family ruined me on guns. I've got no problems shooting up some bottles and cans with a BB gun, but thats my limit. When Dad tried arguing that his new SKS and 38 were for "home protection", an argument that I'll never buy, I quickly lost my interest in guns and the people who own them.
A guy I work with is a big gun advocate. Ask him why and his expression changes to mean and bitter and he'll toss out a wild scenario such as "you come home and somebody is raping your wife...". He's 30 years old, lives in a million dollar home in the most boring neighborhood on the planet here in San Jose {snore}, one of the safest cities in America.
Hunting? No problem. I could never do it, but I can understand those that do. As for the rest, Im not so sure. My uncle (Dads brother ofcourse) still believes the Russians (or the Blacks, or the Mexicans, or whatever boogy-man he's dreamt up) are going to invade Indiana and that why he keeps a safe full of M-16s and various pistols.
Call me a sheep waiting for slaughter, but the gun owners I know are some of the most scared and unstable people I ever met. I guess you could say that Im more concerned with the owners than the guns themselves. I feel the same way about pit-bulls.