[Jims5543]

I have no guns in my house and besides seeing sidearms on Police have never been around guns in day to day life.

My dad hunted and has guns and they were in my house growing up. Dad took me ou tin the woods when I was about 12 years old and blew the side off a tree with his shotgun. It scared me. That was the point he wanted me to understand that playing with the gun would end up with someone looking like the last 1/2 of the tree just add blood.

I got the point and never touched his guns. Conversly a neighborhood friend, who was a detectives son, took out of of his dads many gus to show us when we were about 13-14 years old and no parents were home. I left immediatly after I was teased for begging him to put the gun away. I did not want to die.


In my adult life I have chosen not to have any guns in my house, I do not feel the need for them, I do not hunt and do not feel threatened in day to day life to neccesitate owning a gun for self defense. If I lived somewhere that made me feel threateneed I would move.