What's a subject where you have a point of view but can see the other side of it too?

[ieoeja]

85. Gun control.

I grew up on a farm. I understand the immense difficulty it would be running a farm without firearms. Not to mention that last time we called the cops during an emergency it took 20 minutes for the cops to arrive. A lot of urban/suburban people absolutely refuse to accept that reality exists.

I have lived most of my life in the city. I understand the immense problems caused by firearms in the city. I also know the city is too crowded to permit much use of it as a defensive weapon. A drunken individual wandered in through my back door one night. Had I shot at him, missed and gone through the wall, there is another home 4 feet away. The whole idea is preposterous to anyone who has experience of both firearms and the city. A lot of country people absolutely refuse to accept that reality exists.

I tend to hate both sides of the debate. Both typically call me a liar. I will be surprised if someone doesn’t call me a liar about this post.


But what I really, really, really hate is the new gun culture. I played in the woods on our farm. By myself. As a child. At night even. I now have grown family members who will not step foot into those forests without a gun because “it’s too dangerous”.

My dad would not allow a loaded firearm in the house. We loaded after we stepped foot out of the house. And we unloaded it before stepping foot back inside. Today? I see children playing with loaded firearms in the houses.

The gun nuts have created a culture that is paranoid and afraid of everything except for the one thing that they really should handle like a loaded gun which is a loaded gun.