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In reply to the discussion: Bob Costas just did an anti-gun editorial during half time of Sunday Night Football [View all]harmonicon
(12,008 posts)I don't understand why people who make logical points about why people shouldn't own guns are piled on by the fetishists.
My father was a sharp-shooter in the Army. He was never in combat, but has - in his words - seen someone have "their guts blown out."
He said we kids could do anything, so long as we didn't join the military - it was hard, and he did it so we wouldn't have to. He would also prefer that we didn't have guns. When someone with medals for shooting tells me that owning a gun is a bad idea, I'll believe them.
It just baffles me that people want to own items designed and manufactured for the purpose of killing people. I can understand hunting and target shooting, but few guns are designed and manufactured for those purposes.