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In reply to the discussion: Donate, don't donate, whatever, just hold your babies tight. There are no good guys with guns. [View all]hunter
(40,895 posts)... and we live in a very violent city.
In our family tradition fools and their guns are soon parted.
I subscribe to the theory that U.S.A. gun love is racist to it's rotten core.
White people had guns to control black people who were not allowed to carry guns, and to shoot Native Americans, sometimes just for "sport."
Now they carry guns for other cowardly reasons; basically feelings of impotence.
In my family tradition we've no problem separating fools from their guns. Forget about the government; some mad relative will take your gun and break it. If you're lucky they won't shove it up your ass. Grandmas and great grandmas are formidable women.
Nobody in my extended family suffers a gun fetish, not for long, anyways.
The vast majority of human beings turn into idiots when holding a gun in their hands, and I include cops in this assessment.
I've never been in a situation where me holding a gun might have improved the outcome. Guns escalate ordinary human conflicts into tragedies. Once the guns come out, everything is FUBAR.
Keeping or carrying a gun for "self-defense" is just stupid. Life is not a Hollywood action movie.
Piss on guns.