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Originally Posted by evelyn218
I am from Newtown. I believe one handgun is ok. But tell me why you or anyone else needs to have or store multi military weapons in their home? You are to blame and you are the murderer when the "crazy" person gets their hands on these weapons and uses them. Stop blaming the mentally ill. It's your fault. It will take a long time but we have to do something to control this. By the way, what is your mental status to need to have all these weapons handy.
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You are entitled to your opinion. However in expressing it, it is very obvious you do not know very much about what and why LEGITIMATE gun enthusisats do what they do and why they have "so many guns".
I thought I was done posting on this thread however I cannot let an incorrect comment (which may or may not be intended) pass.
So for the poster I will give one very small example. There is a sport in the USA and in many foeeign countris call Cowboy Action Shooting. It involves play actiong of the wild west days. We dress in period cowboy attire. We shoot what are called stages. Each stage is different and has targets that require the use of a long rifle, a sotgun and two "6 shooters". And yes we use real bullets. Diferent meets call for different guns. So this one example shows that one needs a minimum of four guns to participate. Most of us have two or three times that just for this sport. More than 100,000 members world wide. SShooting once per month at most clubs but enough clubs that one could shoot every weekend. Zero gun involved or related accidents.
That is just one sport. Many of us are involved in several other shooting sports which means even more guns.
Why do fisherman have more than one pole?
Why do tennis players have more than one raquet?
Why do golfers have way more clubs than are required to play the game?
And so on.
And on.
And on.
Millions of good people with millions of weapons enjoying the sports they enjoy.
And I will be
if I will sit idly by and let people, too many of which have absolutely no idea what they are talking about....bad mouth what we do because of some 1% wacko and other reasons kill somebody.
IT IS NOT THE GUNS!!!!
My commentary above is not aimed at the poster. My example is in the hopes of educating.