I am old enough to remember when kids were allowed to actually bring guns to school

[The Straight Story]

51. Yeah, well

so does alcohol which I would guess contributes to more crimes than guns (and they really don't mix well).

Target shooting - a good thing to do so that when you go hunting you can hit your target.

When I was a teen my friend and I studied martial arts. We had shruiken and sai and such. We made a wood cut out, painted it, and named him Bob. And proceeded to attack him to test our throwing skills. Not sure if that means we were psychos or not, and neither of us ever hurt anyone.

If I am target shooting I like all kinds of things, like bottles, cans, cutouts of all sorts of things from zombies to sparking vampires and barney (my sister has 7 acres and a slew of guns, so when I am there we shoot everything from handguns to shotguns - and it is fun).

You and I both worry about the nutjobs with guns. The people who should not be using them. I am more than willing to work on weeding out those people. I know a 5 time felon who is allowed to own a black powder gun by state law, and he has killed 3 people (went to jail for killing the one, but he used his car to run him over. The other two were self defense). He probably shouldn't be even able to own that gun, and he recently used it and shot at someone's house (the cops could not prove it, but he did it - told me they pulled a gun on him...not sure I buy that, but they have a restraining order now).

What I often object to is how people refer to all gun owners in broad ways. My sister goes to places across the US and even a few other countries as part of her mission works and helps feed, rebuild homes, clean places up, etc. She doesn't 'love her guns' she enjoys shooting them with her husband and kids (they hunt, she does not). My dad has a CCW but never carries, but in this hood he has taken it out a few times and kept it with him when things were happening. He grew up with guns, to him they are just a tool like any other.