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undeterred

(34,658 posts)
12. Not in the middle.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 09:48 PM
Dec 2012

I can only speak for myself but I don't see the need for civilians to have firearms. I am not against the use of guns for hunting, but I really would like to see the work of our police force made much easier by disarming civilians.

For all the horror of this week, law enforcement are the ones who deal with this risk every single day. They are the ones who must deal with an armed civilian population with any number of situations like this one waiting to happen. I don't think that civilians should be armed as if they were military or police.

I am against taking life. Animal life, human life, any kind of life. Maybe I have a right to do it but I choose to lay down that right. I choose not to take life and I choose not to put myself in a position where there is even a possibility of doing that- and I hope others will voluntarily choose the same.

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