Lets not hurt ourselves - Gun Control

[Lizzie Poppet]

35. I think we're largely on the same page. =)

And yeah, 50 is an awful lot of guns. I'm not a collector (of anything), so I don't really understand the motivation - and moreover, empathy's not my strong suit..."put yourself in their place" advice is kind of wasted on me. I don't necessarily object, if the person is responsible, especially about keeping their collection secure from thieves. I just don't get it.

As I mentioned, I have eight firearms...and the only reason it's that many is because I shoot in more than one kind of competition (although it's all long-range rifle stuff) I have four rifles for that. I also have two handguns for self defense (one mostly for home, as it's pretty big and heavy as handguns go and I'm a shrimp...and one for concealed carry). Two .22s, a pistol and a little carbine, for cheap casual plinking before .22lr ammunition prices went berserk. Seems like a lot of guns to me, but while most of my closer fiends who have guns have only a couple, a lot of the people I compete against have more than I do. The only people I know with 50 or more, though, are full-on pro collectors.

I also find criminal psychology fascinating (although my own small pursuit of that interest is way more casual than yours, I suspect). As alluded to above, I'm not the best at relating to anyone else's psychology, to say nothing of aberrant psychologies. I have to put in some work to understand them, which I think makes outliers all the more interesting.