Lets not hurt ourselves - Gun Control

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6. Is it really so hard to understand?

It's doesn't take a genius to understand why so many love guns. When you have a loaded gun, you have the power of life & death in your hands. Holding a loaded firearm up against an animal or a human being imparts the ability to end that life at the flick of a finger. How intoxicating that must feel, especially to those with low self esteem.

That's why actual gun fetishists behave like addicts facing prohibition whenever gun control is brought up. They think the "gubbermint" is taking away their masculinity. Sad, really.

I admit, I think 50 guns is excessive. Obsessive. However, it's not my place to decide what you can or cannot own. HOWEVER, call me crazy, but I don't believe that there is a legitimate need for civilians to own military grade firearms or ammo clips.

As someone who worked as a nurse in a busy city ED, I saw far too much death. A teen get his hands on his dad's weapons, fooling around: accidentally shoots his twin in the head. A wife pisses off her drunk of a husband one time too many, ending with her brains spattered all over the kitchen ceiling and her shell-shocked children. Oh, one of my all time favs, a drunken late-teen who played Russian Roulette at a party with dad's revolver, and lost.

I will never embrace the compulsion to possess an item designed with one purpose: to kill. Never. Or the passion to hold tight these items that have wrought such carnage. This sickness is a byproduct and consequence of the American love affair with guns. Will we never evolve?