Gun Culture?? Many here do not realize Guns are a Hobby and a Tool and a Collectors item. [View all]

[Logical]

Some people tend to try to use the "gun culture" tactic to try to make it seem like all gun owners are in love with their guns or obsessed with them.

Some people treat guns like seat belts or a smoke detector. You have one in case you need it to protect yourself. That is fine, for many gun owners that is all they are. They carry them for protection or keep them in the house for protection or for hunting.

But then there are people who collect them and they are a hobby for them. It is not more odd of a hobby than collecting stamps or coins or Beanie Babies or old radios or swords or railroad spikes. Yes, gun do kill and in the hands of criminals they are used to kill people. That does not mean that gun collectors increase the crime rate or cause more murders.

Yes, some people are fascinated with guns and love them. What is the problem with that? I think collecting Happy Meal Toys is an odd hobby. There are as many collection hobbies as there are people. That does not make anyone wrong or right.

I for one read gun magazines and do not get the attraction to buying old replica guns or historic guns. But in the same magazine I see ads for old coins or old stamps. I see nothing with people collecting any of those things. just because I don't want to does not make it wrong.

Bill Maher, who I think is a great liberal, does not understand guns are a hobby. Some people love them and love holding them and love shooting them. I know old book collectors who have got teary when finding an old book in a 2nd hand store that they have wanted for years. The love the smell and the texture of the book. Not my deal but I understand it being theirs.

Shooting guns is a fun activity. If you hate guns that sounds silly I know. I think square dancing boring as hell but the people who do it enjoy themselves. Who cares?

What makes this hard for people is that they tend to think of guns only as something to shoot someone with. That is like thinking about stamps as only something to mail a letter with and not understand the attraction of collecting them. I don't collect anything at all. But I can see why people love it as a hobby.

I doubt this will go over well here with some people. That is OK. I hope it makes at lease a few people think about it.