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In reply to the discussion: Common Murder Weapons and Their Alternate Uses [View all]Deep13
(39,154 posts)Guns give the owner a false feeling of power and self-autonomy, which in fact does not exist. I am also disturbed by the seige mentality and their acceptance--eager anticipation even--of the inevitable and imminent collapse of civilization. I was reading a gun forum once and someone asked what everyone would do when America collapsed (he was not clear on what that meant). The answers were all me and mine against the world. Just to be a bit over the top, I said I had no plans because if America falls, I would have died trying to save it.
Some of these guys have collections of AR-15s. This is my close range AR, this is my sniper AR etc. What an investment of time and money! Don't these folks have families to support? What are the kids doing without so their paranoid father can be ready for a "them" that does not exist.
I used to be opposed to gun control based on the NRA-propagated lie that it wasn't very effective and that their was some Constitutional right for personal ownership, even if it was not absolute. Newtown made me realize that I had been a selfish fool. I still enjoy target shooting, but if there is something I can no longer get because of restrictions, *shrug* I'll live and others will too. Of course I join 90% of Americans an a majority of NRA members who want universal background checks. And year, we really need to reign in those handguns, because, as you say, they are a far bigger daily menace than military-pattern rifles.