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Flying to Nevada from Illinois with a gun
SeaMonkey:
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--- Quote from: fredster on February 18, 2005, 07:41:00 pm ---I have had a gun within 20 feet of me in my house all of my life. I shot my first gun at 4 1/2.
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fredster:
--- Quote ---I'm much more tolerable in person.
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I can't get over that. :-X
When somebody stops a crime with a gun, it's not news. It doesn't get on the news until somebody gets shot in a crime.
It perpetuates the myth that guns are evil when all that is reported is bad.
--- Quote ---If I could put myself in your shoes I believe I could be a gun owner and act in a socially acceptable way. But damn, sitting here right now in my little world I have no motivation to own a gun or even seriously contemplate it.
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SeaMonkey:
--- Quote from: fredster on February 18, 2005, 08:01:20 pm ---
--- Quote ---I'm much more tolerable in person.
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I can't get over that. :-X
When somebody stops a crime with a gun, it's not news. It doesn't get on the news until somebody gets shot in a crime.
It perpetuates the myth that guns are evil when all that is reported is bad.
--- Quote ---If I could put myself in your shoes I believe I could be a gun owner and act in a socially acceptable way. But damn, sitting here right now in my little world I have no motivation to own a gun or even seriously contemplate it.
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fredster:
Back when we were truly free, I was in highschool in 75-79 we carried our guns to school in the pickup trucks. I had a gun rack with a .22 in it. It was standard issue.
I had a buck knife on my belt in school. I didn't even think about it as a weapon.
shmokes:
--- Quote ---When somebody stops a crime with a gun, it's not news. It doesn't get on the news until somebody gets shot in a crime.
It perpetuates the myth that guns are evil when all that is reported is bad.
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Or maybe it doesn't happen very often. I'm pretty sure that only a tiny portion of the population packs heat wherever they go. Most gun owners to not carry them. Most probably lock them up and hope to never use them or only use them to hunt. I'm also pretty sure that, generally speaking, people don't get raped in plain sight of other people (or robbed or stabbed or whatever). Odds are probably extraordinarily low that any crime is going to be thwarted by an armed citizen.
I think it's your imagination running wild, rather than a lack of interest by the media that's going on here.