Why do you want a gun?

Snakes..snakes and more snakes. I'm not gettin' close enough to kill em with a hoe. Yep! Snakes is my answer.

It's that time of year.
 

All should take note of news videos showing punks in a store with the plan to rob it but hen the clerk produces a gun they run like the coward they are. This is proof you don't even have to shoot them to get rid of them.
 
I can probably point out which way the bullet comes out of the gun, but that's the extent of my expertise. Reading about people, who have fire arms in their homes, and still have my level of expertise is scary. If you are going to have a fire arm in your home, you need to be adept at using it. And that doesn't mean just putting it in a draw till you think you hear a noise late some night.
 

I don't want a gun, I have all the guns I want already. I have them for protection when I need it and for fun shooting at targets. USA gun owners who obey our laws should be left alone
 
Why do gun owners says they own guns for "protection", and non-gun owners seem not to have a need for "protection"?
Let's face it, if you're 500 miles into the wilderness, with hungry carnivorous following you, you need "protection". But not everybody is in such peril. Why do gun owners have a need for "protection"? I'm not saying the need isn't valid, yet a gunless person has the same need. People are weird critters. What floats another's boat, will sink some one else's.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Why do gun owners says they own guns for "protection", and non-gun owners seem not to have a need for "protection"?
Let's face it, if you're 500 miles into the wilderness, with hungry carnivorous following you, you need "protection". But not everybody is in such peril. Why do gun owners have a need for "protection"? I'm not saying the need isn't valid, yet a gunless person has the same need. People are weird critters. What floats another's boat, will sink some one else's.
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I would feel safer in the wilderness with the lions and tigers and bears than I would on some of my city streets at 2:OOam.

I don't feel a need for a gun based on the odds and my lifestyle.

I would be curious to know how many people that own guns for protection have ever actually needed them. I can't think of a time in the last 64 years when a gun for protection would have been helpful to me
 
Aunt Bea said:
I would feel safer in the wilderness with the lions and tigers and bears than I would on some of my city streets at 2:OOam.

I don't feel a need for a gun based on the odds and my lifestyle.

I would be curious to know how many people that own guns for protection have ever actually needed them. I can't think of a time in the last 64 years when a gun for protection would have been helpful to me
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The odds are that most will never encounter a situation, but those that have understand the reasoning. Most never report the encounter. I'm not a paranoid individual and seldom carry a gun, but I am very aware of my surroundings.

I also have coyotes, fox, skunks, groundhogs, raccoon, roam in and out of my yard, some rabid The neighbor's laying hens don't help keep them away either. Some folks never understand why little Muffy goes missing after feeding coyotes and foxes in their yards.
 
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Aunt Bea said:
I would feel safer in the wilderness with the lions and tigers and bears than I would on some of my city streets at 2:OOam.

I don't feel a need for a gun based on the odds and my lifestyle.

I would be curious to know how many people that own guns for protection have ever actually needed them. I can't think of a time in the last 64 years when a gun for protection would have been helpful to me
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mark me down in the needed them column. Now, I have rifles which I deer hunt with, and shotguns for bird hunting. I don't horn hunt or trophy hunt, we eat what I kill. That said, I always have a pistol on hand within easy reach as we live out in the sticks quite a ways and don't have cell service, nor land line. Not more than a few months ago, I had to use the sheriff to remove some meth head renters. About a week later, 2 show up at the house with just the wife around. She told them to go away, but, they got out of the car and started into the door yard. She threw down on them and I believe she'd have shot them right then if I hadn't been coming back out of the woods and seeing me, they immediately took off. After calling the sheriff, (no easy task as I had to drive almost to town for a signal), I was relieved when they showed up and told me they had captured the 2 butt heads. While relaying to him how I was certain the wife would have shot at them, he told me he was fine with that seeing that we lived so far out in the country.
 
It seems to me that most of the folks on this bb who want guns for "protection" live in the "red states." So, why is that? Are their regions of the country more personally dangerous than other regions? How often have their guns actually been used for that purpose?

In the rest of the world, probably most guns are used for hunting only. This "protection" idea seems to be intrinsic to certain regions of the U.S. only. Why is that? Are all the bad guys and dangerous animals living only in that part of the world?

I wonder how many of our attitudes on this subject (and I mean all of us, including me) have been shaped by the prevailing attitudes of our neighbors? How many people have ever really thought this through?
 
Sunny said:
It seems to me that most of the folks on this bb who want guns for "protection" live in the "red states." So, why is that? Are their regions of the country more personally dangerous than other regions? How often have their guns actually been used for that purpose?

In the rest of the world, probably most guns are used for hunting only. This "protection" idea seems to be intrinsic to certain regions of the U.S. only. Why is that? Are all the bad guys and dangerous animals living only in that part of the world?

I wonder how many of our attitudes on this subject (and I mean all of us, including me) have been shaped by the prevailing attitudes of our neighbors? How many people have ever really thought this through?
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It was because of the Revolutionary War against the British and the Constitution. Militias, and able bodied men, and rifles, and all that kind of stuff.
 
I agree. It does seem that certain areas of the nation are more concerned with the need for "gun" protection. I wonder why. Are there factors that create a need for protection, which do not exist in other areas? Or is it an acceptance of gun culture? Either way, a gun does fulfill the need for protection.
 
Well folks, there are definitely areas of different big cities that can be like a “war zone”....just ask any law enforcement officer that works those areas. Check out Los Angeles, New York City, Miami, Baltimore and others.

Nobody in this forum can be that nieve not to know this.

Once, back in the mid 90’s, I spoke to a Sergeant with the Fullerton, Calif. P.D.. I asked him “is the crime in this city as bad as the local news reports it is sometimes?”. He told me, “actually, it’s worse, especially in some areas. Shootings on a daily-to-weekly basis. We have people who want what other people have and will use a gun to get it.”

So, enough said and understood now?
 
Sunny said:
It seems to me that most of the folks on this bb who want guns for "protection" live in the "red states." So, why is that? Are their regions of the country more personally dangerous than other regions? How often have their guns actually been used for that purpose?

In the rest of the world, probably most guns are used for hunting only. This "protection" idea seems to be intrinsic to certain regions of the U.S. only. Why is that? Are all the bad guys and dangerous animals living only in that part of the world?

I wonder how many of our attitudes on this subject (and I mean all of us, including me) have been shaped by the prevailing attitudes of our neighbors? How many people have ever really thought this through?
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I suppose it's mostly people in red states because of people in blue states. Seems like a lot of folks have forgotten that the 2nd amendment was put there to protect the people from a tyrannical government.
 
Sunny said:
It seems to me that most of the folks on this bb who want guns for "protection" live in the "red states." So, why is that? Are their regions of the country more personally dangerous than other regions?
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Actually, if you check the FBI/DOJ statistics, some of the most dangerous places in the country are cities in the "Deep Blue" states. Chicago is a prime example, and if you are from Maryland, Baltimore is ranked right up there near the top in terms of violent crime/murders. A far better comparison of "dangerous" places might be cities vs. rural areas...people in the cities are Far More likely to be faced with violence....irregardless of Red or Blue.

Living in the boondocks...about the Only need we have for "protection" is during the early Summer when the Armadillos begin to invade the yard. Since they are known to carry a virus which causes Leprosy, I quickly "dispatch" any of those varmints that appear...pick up their remains with a pair of channel lock pliers and cremate them in my burn pit....then sanitize the channel locks.
 
We don’t own firearms nearly so much for protection as we do for fun shooting clays and targets at a Range.

Neither wife nor I owned a firearm until a couple of years after we married. I really had no idea that she’d be so interested in firearms and having fun shooting targets.
At 70 years old, she still loves shooting and at almost 69, I do also.
 
squatting dog said:
I suppose it's mostly people in red states because of people in blue states. Seems like a lot of folks have forgotten that the 2nd amendment was put there to protect the people from a tyrannical government.
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I live in a very blue state and most people here own at least one firearm. Hard to know an actual percentage, because this state does not require registration of firearms.
 
I don't want any guns in this house. Once I had a boyfriend who brought a gun to the house and decided to tease me about having it on him. It was just me and my young son. I asked him to leave and he was never invited back.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
I don't want any guns in this house. Once I had a boyfriend who brought a gun to the house and decided to tease me about having it on him. It was just me and my young son. I asked him to leave and he was never invited back.
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But, that is YOU and that is fine. People who don't like firearms plainly shouldn't be around them. Sounds like you need a "big city" guy for a boyfriend. One that doesn't like firearms either.
 
squatting dog said:
I suppose it's mostly people in red states because of people in blue states. Seems like a lot of folks have forgotten that the 2nd amendment was put there to protect the people from a tyrannical government.
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Im interested in that theory. Who determines what a tyrannical government is.

The revolution took place over taxes. Is it time again. Tongue in cheek.
 

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