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Originally Posted by graciegirl
IF people are born with certain degrees of altruism AND others with certain degrees of criminality, then "training" and educating is ****ing in the wind. If the scientific method is used to define and to address this problem than we would need to deal with the reality that guns are in the hands of tens of thousands of people and only the ethical and the rule followers would give up their guns. I think the divide on this issue is between the realists and the dreamers, so to speak. It goes further into the fact that some people use guns to make a living; to rob, to intimidate, to protect their drug business, to threaten those who don't pay them, and others own guns out of some need to protect themselves. It can depend on where you are raised and the threat level of society that you have been exposed to all of your life. I think it goes much further than second amendment rights and is integrated into each person's level of safety and security.
At any rate, guns don't stop working. Once sold and owned they will continue to be deadly weapons forever, and getting them out of the hands of people who will hide them is to me not realistic at all.
I don't own a gun and in my whole life I have not been in a situation where someone threatened me or tried to steal things from me. We grew up in an area that did not have gun violence and tried hard to place our family in a similar area and still live in an area that is overwhelmingly safe. I don't think I have ever even seen a real gun.
However, as society continues to lose large percentages of people who are brought up with rules and respect for others, I would like to keep the option open to be able to buy a gun and learn how to use it.
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The education is aimed at preventing bullies from picking on misfits who often become the mass murderers. There is no way we can practically get rid of guns in the United States but we can put some kind of controls on some kind of guns.
I do not see much need of guns/rifles in the Villages. The cops are well armed and can be reached quickly with 911 and your neighbors probably also have guns of some kind.
I know a woman who has a handgun near her bed on the night stand. She heard a noise at night, picked up her loaded handgun, and shot her vacuum. It had shifted in her closet. This was in the Villages and I expect her friends have never let her forget this. I would check her car for her vacuum count like one of those WWII pilots.