Originally Posted by
rebeld
thats more understandable than someone who stands and says guns are bad ... and their only justification is that criminals use them and they have no personal experience with them
for someone who grows up with guns you dont even think of them as 'bad' until you meet someone who tells you how evil guns and gun owners are
a gun is no different than a knife, both are tools, key tools in the lives of many people ... but you put either of them into the hands of a person with bad intentions and they become dangerous. should we outlaw knives because some people are bad?
That is true - at the same time you want people to understand where you are coming from you have to understand where those people are also coming from. like myself, growing up in jersey close proximity to nyc - watching news everynight where someone got shot here and got shot there, obvioulsy paints a picture of guns = bad.
i dont have much experience with guns personally and the ones i have had were not so good. i do however one of these days want to shoot one in a controlled environment like a pa range or something and possibly own one for when i have children (especially a daughter) for me the gun thing will be something i will just want to do. others just see it as a tool to kill and that is something people will have to understand.