I owned one when I was a police officer (when dinosaurs roamed the earth). (Reply #46)

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Wed Feb 21, 2018, 12:30 PM

Vinca (45,487 posts)

46. I owned one when I was a police officer (when dinosaurs roamed the earth).

After I left the force it went back into its box and sat on a shelf for the better part of 2 decades. I finally sold it through a licensed dealer so a background check would be done on the buyers. There just didn't seem to be any reason to keep it. I feel sorry for the people who are so paranoid and afraid of their shadows they have to arm themselves to the hilt. In the end, it's more likely than not the gun owner's family will suffer a loss - accident or suicide - rather than a bad guy breaking into their house.

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71 replies	Author	Time	Post
Never owned a gun, never will. [View all]	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	OP
You can always	canfeild123	Feb 2018	#1
It's kind of strange when I look back on my life...	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#2
Me too.	Dave Starsky	Feb 2018	#8
Have you ever seen the video of that cop...	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#9
Was the cop's name Bernard P. Fife?	Dave Starsky	Feb 2018	#16
LOL...yes close to this. I found the video...	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#17
That is simultaneously terrifying and hilarious.	Dave Starsky	Feb 2018	#20
This one cracks me up every time	Hassin Bin Sober	Feb 2018	#43
LOL...I try not to laugh, but I can't help it.	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#52
OMG!	Egnever	Feb 2018	#51
PS, welcome to DU, canfeild123	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#3
I think if you grew up in rural America, on a farm or in the wilderness I can see the need.	Fla Dem	Feb 2018	#39
Rattlesnakes? I've had plenty of encounters with those. Nothing to get the guns out for.	hunter	Feb 2018	#61
I grew up in a family of hunter who ate the meat	trixie2	Feb 2018	#67
I feel the same as you do. Never owned one, never wanted one,	Wwcd	Feb 2018	#4
I was just pondering that...	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#5
In my opinion, "I'm a responsible, law-abiding gun-owner, but..."	Aristus	Feb 2018	#6
I tend to agree.	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#7
I think it was either the same day or the same week as Sandy Hook.	Aristus	Feb 2018	#10
Yep...another one that I've been seeing a lot of lately...	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#11
To that I say	loyalsister	Feb 2018	#71
Yang Qingpei killed 19 on September 29, 2016 in his home village with a knife. On 18 September...	Marengo	Feb 2018	#33
Like you, I've never owned a gun and never desired to own a gun.	Arkansas Granny	Feb 2018	#12
Love the last sentence.	Iggo	Feb 2018	#13
.	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#15
Me too, but I am 55.	BigmanPigman	Feb 2018	#38
Same here.	ananda	Feb 2018	#14
.	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#18
More than half the people who don't own a gun now could see themselves doing so in the future.	WhiskeyGrinder	Feb 2018	#19
Do you have a link for that?	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#21
Yes.	WhiskeyGrinder	Feb 2018	#22
OK thanks. I'll look at it, but that does not change my opinion	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#23
Oh, I wasn't trying to change your opinion.	WhiskeyGrinder	Feb 2018	#24
Do you know many people who have fired a gun at someone in self-defense...	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#26
A couple who have done the latter.	WhiskeyGrinder	Feb 2018	#29
Did they have a gun pointed at them when this happened?	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#30
One, no; don't know about the others.	WhiskeyGrinder	Feb 2018	#34
"a valuable part of self-protection..."	hunter	Feb 2018	#35
Nor I.	tavernier	Feb 2018	#25
That is your choice (and I respect it)	melm00se	Feb 2018	#27
How many people do you know that have used a gun for self-defense?	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#28
Lived out in the country and used one to	safeinOhio	Feb 2018	#36
Agree.	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#37
If you are in by the time the street	safeinOhio	Feb 2018	#66
This message was self-deleted by its author	Skittles	Feb 2018	#69
Not everyone	melm00se	Feb 2018	#41
I have made it 53 years without one.	logosoco	Feb 2018	#31
same...nt	G_j	Feb 2018	#32
Me neither. I'm 70 and was actually threatened for video taping illegal	sinkingfeeling	Feb 2018	#40
Never owned a gun, can't imagine a situation where I ever would.	Stonepounder	Feb 2018	#42
I have the best kind of "gun"	leftieNanner	Feb 2018	#44
We have to convince the gun lovers that we don't want to take away their guns	FakeNoose	Feb 2018	#45
I owned one when I was a police officer (when dinosaurs roamed the earth).	Vinca	Feb 2018	#46
Same here	NRaleighLiberal	Feb 2018	#47
No guns for me	Vanessa Rose	Feb 2018	#48
Welcome to DU! n/t	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#49
Thank you	Vanessa Rose	Feb 2018	#65
I've owned a number of guns over the years.	Paladin	Feb 2018	#50
I don't let anyone I'd care to shoot live in my head.	hunter	Feb 2018	#53
You are far BRAVER than anyone who needs a gun for courage.	joanbarnes	Feb 2018	#54
Thank you for saying that, but I'm far from brave.	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#56
Me either	extvbroadcaster	Feb 2018	#55
I don't currently own a gun,	jb5150	Feb 2018	#57
This is where the debate gets stuck...	DaDeacon	Feb 2018	#58
But they come to the argument with their own absolute: Second Amendment, so fuck you.	Iggo	Feb 2018	#59
that's true, sometimes but...	DaDeacon	Feb 2018	#60
We've been coming to them with baby steps for years.	Iggo	Feb 2018	#62
yes we have	DaDeacon	Feb 2018	#64
start by considering the NRA a fucking TERRORIST organziation	Skittles	Feb 2018	#70
YMMV -exactly correct.	aikoaiko	Feb 2018	#63
Grew up the son of a Marine...around guns my whole life. Like shooting them	jmg257	Feb 2018	#68

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