Reply #25: Okay Mr. Shrink, since you really want to know, let me tell you why I hate guns...... [View All]

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1) It's bad enough that knives exist out there, and B&D electric saws, and baseball bats, and so on, for all these things can kill. We hardly need an implement that kills from REAL FAR AWAY, from behind a bush, and while driving by.
2) God knows there are enough sociopaths, whackos, loners, low IQers, and idiots out there thinking they're Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dolph Lundgren, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Chuck Norris, Steven Seagal and Bruce Willis. Do we really really need to put convenient kill-from-afar implements in their hands so they can finish the job of their imagination?
3) I want to be able to tell someone to fuck off without having them blow my brains out for it.

As for protecting onself with a gun, let's see.....
Let's assume I'm walking in a dark parking lot with a loaded gun in my purse and 3 men appear out of nowhere with a gun pointed at me, and grab me. Here's your question: What's the probability that I'll be able to pray away from the assholes, sway sideways Matrix-style to avoid the oncoming bullet, open my purse, pull out my gun and shoot all 3 assholes? Here's where you put the probability: _%

Let's also assume that you have 3 kids, so although you have a gun, you have taken the courses and know that it's deadly to keep a loaded gun in a house with kids, so you keep the damned thing unloaded. Suddenly, some asshole breaks through your bedroom window with a gun and begins firing at your sleeping body. Here's your question: How quickly could you plug up the holes in your body, lift yourself, grab your gun, load it, and fire back, killing the subject? Here's where you put the probability: _%

Now, what's are my diagnoses?