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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 577518" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I've tried to stay out of the gun control debates as much as I could. I do have my own opinions on it, as we all do, but so much of it is politics when it shouldn't be. It's ridiculous to argue that people <em>need</em> assault weapons and have a "right" to own them. And certainly better background checks need to be put in place. But we all know too that there are "guns" and then there are "<em>guns</em>" and it's like comparing apples and oranges. There are the guns that responsible hunters use, with safety as their main concern. And there are the handguns that some responsible law-abiding people keep in their homes to protect themselves and their families from all the craziness that goes on today. And then there are the guns that criminals use, the ones available on the street to people who care nothing about any gun control laws. Two completely different things. </p><p> </p><p>I live right in the middle of the deer hunting culture where elementary school kids are taught how to handle guns. They teach hunters safety courses in the schools and the rangers teach the courses in the state parks. They stress safety and respect for what the weapon can do and they have to pass the course to get their hunting license. This is a far different thing than the kid who picks up the gun that his drug dealer daddy carelessly left lying around and shoots himself or someone else! </p><p> </p><p>There are no easy answers. I keep thinking of a thing that was going around on Facebook a while back, supposedly a quote from Samuel L. Jackson. I can't find it right now but paraphrasing, he said that he didn't think the problem was really guns themselves. He said that he grew up in the South where everybody had guns and people were not running around shooting each other. He said the problem is that we have created a whole generation, a whole class of people who basically have no respect for human life. And I think he's got it exactly right.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 577518, member: 1883"] I've tried to stay out of the gun control debates as much as I could. I do have my own opinions on it, as we all do, but so much of it is politics when it shouldn't be. It's ridiculous to argue that people [I]need[/I] assault weapons and have a "right" to own them. And certainly better background checks need to be put in place. But we all know too that there are "guns" and then there are "[I]guns[/I]" and it's like comparing apples and oranges. There are the guns that responsible hunters use, with safety as their main concern. And there are the handguns that some responsible law-abiding people keep in their homes to protect themselves and their families from all the craziness that goes on today. And then there are the guns that criminals use, the ones available on the street to people who care nothing about any gun control laws. Two completely different things. I live right in the middle of the deer hunting culture where elementary school kids are taught how to handle guns. They teach hunters safety courses in the schools and the rangers teach the courses in the state parks. They stress safety and respect for what the weapon can do and they have to pass the course to get their hunting license. This is a far different thing than the kid who picks up the gun that his drug dealer daddy carelessly left lying around and shoots himself or someone else! There are no easy answers. I keep thinking of a thing that was going around on Facebook a while back, supposedly a quote from Samuel L. Jackson. I can't find it right now but paraphrasing, he said that he didn't think the problem was really guns themselves. He said that he grew up in the South where everybody had guns and people were not running around shooting each other. He said the problem is that we have created a whole generation, a whole class of people who basically have no respect for human life. And I think he's got it exactly right. [/QUOTE]
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