The day my husband and I have dreaded is here.

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121. You may have been the person that mentioned not being gunned down like sheep.

I don't know, when I talk to gun lovers, all of them seem to have the same somewhat macho visions. I have a question for you. Have you ever been in a live shootout where the other person had a gun? Maybe you were in the military in a war zone and did get into that situation, I don't know you. What I do know is that in three or four situations in my lifetime where a person that owned a gun encounter a person with a gun, the gun owners ended up dead. One of the people was a Doctor that treated me as a child.

I can mention situations that make logical and statistical sense to people like you and I will get pushback. Before I go on, I used to hunt as a kid and was pretty good, anyone that can take down a quail from a flushed covey with a rifle is no playboy with a gun. I gave up guns and hunting as a teen when I didn't have a kill shot on a squirrel but took the shot anyway, watching the squirrel that I had hit struggle to live was enough for me, I gave up guns that day and have not touched one since, I would have no idea of how to work modern guns. Since I was never in the military, I never shot at a person.

Now, back to you. If you are like most gun owners, you have never shot at a real human being. You certainly have not shot at a human being when one or more other human beings are obstructing the line of fire that you need to take to hit the human that you want to shoot. Until you have been in a real live situation where you are shooting at a live human being that may be shooting toward you, any hypothetical that you throw up don't mean a damned thing, you have no idea of how you will react.