Just three percent of adults own half of America’s guns

[hunter]

40. My mom, a little old lady, is much more intimidating than I am...

... and a gun grabber too.

My mom's mom fought off the police and paramedics for several hours when they came to remove her from her house as a danger to herself and others.

My great grandmas were hard steely eyed women of the Wild West. I knew three of them as a child, and they scared me sometimes. Curiously, they did most of the hunting and fishing in their families, their husbands busy taking care of the cows or the cattle or playing with useless things like radios or automobiles.

I used to watch in utter amazement one of my grandmas cutting up fish, birds, and smaller mammals for dinner. Her hands moved so fast I couldn't follow. I think she was the sort of person who could kill a bad man and reasonably expect her friend the sheriff-coroner to clean up the mess and file the proper papers.

Anyways, size doesn't matter, it's how you use it, right?

As I've said before, I've been in some rough situations, a few too many involving "bad guys" with guns. I've seen the police shoot people, I've been a bystander when gangsters are shooting at one another, I've confronted armed people on my property, I've been threatened and robbed by people with guns and knives, I've been physically assaulted... but not once have I been in a situation where outcomes might have been improved had I been holding a gun.

Guns turn ordinary human conflicts into tragedies, including suicides, where the conflict is entirely internal to a person. Guns don't make people any more powerful, mostly they make people stupid and dangerous, police officers included.

Piss on guns.