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Originally posted by dogcow
i should also note that i don't find gun ownership per se bad. one can own a gun for all kinds of different reasons. it also makes a difference if one chooses to carry it everyday or keeps it at home.
There was a time in my life when I carried a handgun on my person everywhere I went, and kept a rifle in my vehicle, two more in my home. The circumstances that necessitated those precautions changed, and I quit carrying.
Torque is right, though. Weapons are merely tools, designed to do a certain job. Like a professional mechanic who takes his tools with him on a trip, not in an expectation of needing them but for the assurance that if he does need them, thay are at hand, carrying a weapon with which one is familiar, reasonably expert, and feels no need to display openly is a reasonable precaution in some circumstances.
I no longer own any weapons for one simple reason - it would be all too easy to use one if I had it and got into depression again. The 5th anniversary of my wife's murder is in one month and five days, and as it draws nearer I know that I'll find myself drawn more and more into remembrance. Daydreaming, fantasizing over the killing of her murderer is enough trouble to deal with. Doing so with a weapon at hand is too great a risk, for me.
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