Donate, don't donate, whatever, just hold your babies tight. There are no good guys with guns.

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33. There are some people who need guns for personal protection.

There some people who need guns because of their occupation (your husband, for instance), however I do not think 'need' is why most gun owners have firearms.

I grew up in a household with guns. My dad acquired guns at an early age. He bought a shotgun when he was 12 (1940s). He had to hide it in the barn because my grandfather hated guns. After my dad began bringing home wild game (waterfowl, pheasants, rabbits, squirrels) my grandfather relented and my dad did not need to hide the shotgun. In fact, my grandfather gave him money to buy ammunition.

As my dad got older, he bought a few more guns, a military surplus rifle for hunting deer (it was surplus from the Spanish-American War), and a pump shotgun (he still has them).

He only had one handgun when I was a kid and I never saw it much because it was locked up. (It's a small Colt officer's sidearm that was made in 1918). He bought it because it was old and a collector-type gun, he still owns it.)

My dad has acquired several more guns over the years, mostly just to have in his collection. The only guns that he shoots are a couple of handguns for target shooting and rifles for deer hunting.

My point with this post is that my father doesn't really NEED any of these firearms. However, he would have missed out on the bonding he has done with his sons and grandsons while hunting and target shooting over the decades. My grandfathers died when I was six and eleven years old. I would have really liked to have known them and spent as much time with them as my father has spent with his grandsons.