[momesu]

Originally Posted by Posh 08

what about cops carrying?

I don't have a problem with police or other official low enforcement people carrying guns. It is part of their job and when I see then I know they are carrying them. I had a friend who was Secret Service agent and I knew she always had a gun. What I don['t like it people in the general public carrying them and carrying them concealed and secretly.

[looneycat]

Originally Posted by momesu

I don't have a problem with police or other official low enforcement people carrying guns. It is part of their job and when I see then I know they are carrying them. I had a friend who was Secret Service agent and I knew she always had a gun. What I don['t like it people in the general public carrying them and carrying them concealed and secretly.

unfortunately official bad guys carry guns as well. It is a question of how the person carrying a gun views it, if they view it as an aggressive weapon, that can be a problem if they are good OR bad. If they view it as an absolute last resort for protection of life and limb then they offer no threat to you. If you don't want to even touch one, that is your decision and there's nothing wrong with that...

[beartrack]

Originally Posted by momesu

I'm sorry but I will never be comfortable with people either good or bad carrying guns.....I just don;t like guns and what they do to people!

With all due respect momesu, I think that you are being a bit naive. If you have to be afraid of something be afraid of people and what they do to other people. A firearm by itself can not hurt anyone. In the hands of a bad person they will kill or wound. In the hands of a good person only the bad person needs to worry.

For example, I lived in Boca Raton for a few years. The newspaper there carried a warning that there was a group of young men in a black car that would wait in the parking lot of some expensive department store till they spotted any woman wearing lots of jewelry and one man would get out of the car and just shoot her, then he would take her purse and all of her jewelry and get back into the car and take off. To the best of my memory several women were killed and several more severely wounded until one woman saw what was going to happen to her and shot the guy before he could shoot her. He died and all his helpers went to prison. Every woman in Boca felt a lot safer after that day. Please give some thought to this story and tell us what you would have done if you were this brave woman. You only get two choices, defend yourself with a firearm, or be killed.

I rest my case.

[Figmo Bohica]

Originally Posted by momesu

I'm sorry but I will never be comfortable with people either good or bad carrying guns.....I just don;t like guns and what they do to people!

You really need to come take my class. I have to ask, are you afrid of your toaster? It can hurt you, ruin your bread, make your day start off all wrong if used improperly. No inaninate object ever hurt anyone. People hurt people. Your so called Gun Control Programs are nothing more that People Control Programs, as only law abiding citizens will do what the government asks of them.

Here is some interesting items for you:

Myth: Guns are not a good deterrent to crime

Fact: Guns prevent an estimated 2.5 million crimes a year, or 6,849 every day. Often the gun is never fired and no blood (including the criminal’s) is shed.

Fact: It seems to be slowing down property crime (especially burglaries).

Fact: Every day, 550 rapes, 1,100 murders, and 5,200 other violent crimes are prevented just by showing a gun. In less than 0.9% of these instances is the gun ever actually fired.

For the rest of the story, google Gun Facts 6.0 and read all there is to know about being armed and how crime is reduced when citizens are armed.

[lovesports]

I refuse to get into any argument with a card carrying NRA member.

You can say anything you want and much of it is misinformation. I've seen the devastation that guns cause in my own personal family.

Go to Europe and see countries with no guns with much less crime.

The NRA lobby is so strong in this country that no politician will touch it. And we are the country with the most crime and most prisons.

I know the intensity that you will argue with me. Forget it. I won't change my mind and you won't change yours. If you want me to respect you, respect others that don't agree with you.

[Uncle Pepe]

Anyone know where I can sell or trade a handgun that will be fair and equitable?

[EdV]

Originally Posted by lovesports

....And we are the country with the most crime...

Not if you're talking murder rates.

[billethkid]

guns do not cause the devastation, people do!

guns do not do bad things to people, people do.

Just remember the bad things that some people do to children, including killing their own. Most is done without the use of a gun.

The people are the problem.

And once again reminding many that what you hear about the use of a gun is not done by responsible gun owners...the more than 98%.
The media and anti gunners would have us all believe the numbers are reversed.

To each his own on gun belief, opinion and preferences but don't automatically generally categorize gun owners with the profile usually presented in the news....which is always biased and not representative of reality.....just like most of what they report.

Not attempting to change anybody's mind, just reminding some to know more about what they report.

btk

[momesu]

Originally Posted by billethkid

guns do not cause the devastation, people do!

guns do not do bad things to people, people do.

Just remember the bad things that some people do to children, including killing their own. Most is done without the use of a gun.

The people are the problem.

And once again reminding many that what you hear about the use of a gun is not done by responsible gun owners...the more than 98%.
The media and anti gunners would have us all believe the numbers are reversed.

To each his own on gun belief, opinion and preferences but don't automatically generally categorize gun owners with the profile usually presented in the news....which is always biased and not representative of reality.....just like most of what they report.

Not attempting to change anybody's mind, just reminding some to know more about what they report.

btk

Guns don't kill people do....if that is true I say I stand corrected....it's not the guns I dislike....just all the people who carry them! ????????

[Figmo Bohica]

Originally Posted by momesu

Guns don't kill people do....if that is true I say I stand corrected....it's not the guns I dislike....just all the people who carry them! ????????

All lthe people, including the police, military and law abiding citizens or just the bad people, you know the criminals?

[billethkid]

typical anti gunner knee jerk response.

btk

[beartrack]

Originally Posted by momesu

Guns don't kill people do....if that is true I say I stand corrected....it's not the guns I dislike....just all the people who carry them! ????????

Unbelievable statement, childish, not worthy of a reponse.

[capecodbob]

Originally Posted by momesu

Call me naive about the risk of being attacked while walking the streets of TV, call me a radical left leaning radical, call me out for having my head stuck in the sand, but I am NOT comforted knowing people are out there carrying concealed weapons tucked into the band of their golf shorts.....I do not nor ever will agree that people carrying guns keep us more safe. JMHO! Please don't flame me fro my naivety.

.....I do and ever will agree that people carrying guns keep us more safe. JMHO! Please don't flame me for my honest opinion.
And I consider folks that feel the opposite, misinformed, niave, and show a failure to honestly deal with the facts.

Bob

[Posh 08]

POSH = Pistols Or Shotguns Handy

Now you know where I am on the subject.

[CMANN]

If you wonder if guns save lives, take a look at this link....

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