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In reply to the discussion: If we don't focus on the mentally ill how are background checks supposed to work? [View all]hunter
(38,302 posts)Nevertheless, since I haven't been hunting for decades, and it's not a skill I thought necessary to pass onto my children, I've no need to keep guns around.
I've been in many very rough and violent situations, and I've lived in very rough neighborhoods, but never once have I felt any desire to own a gun. Guns tend to turn ugly situations into tragedies.
Parents in my city, a city of much higher than average gun mayhem, generally don't want their kids to have anything at all to do with guns. Guns make kids gangsters or victims of gangsters and the police.
In all honesty I believe anyone who likes guns isn't qualified to own one, and that includes most cops.
"Oh, but I love target shooting!" seems like a silly reason to keep dangerous guns around.
Keeping a gun around for "self protection" just seems paranoid.