Reply #22: The appeal of the gun? [View All]

My dad was never interested in guns in his life.

Until the Brady Bill passed. As soon as it looked like the government wanted to tell him what he could own, or what he couldn't own, he went out and bought several pistols, a rifle, and a shotgun. Before the background checks, before the waiting periods, before they banned "scary" guns, etc. He wanted to make sure he could exercise his rights before they were taken away.



As for myself, I'm a mechanic, both at heart and by trade. I enjoy using, working on, or improving any precision machine - and that's all a gun really is. I build engines and then drive the cars, listening to every mechanical sound they make, analyzing everything that is happening. I shoot my guns and enjoy trying this spring, or that ammunition, analyzing each change to see what makes an improvement.

I don't keep the gun locked up at home, I keep it accessible, for the simple reason that it's there. I know the odds are infinitesimal that I will ever wake up to find an intruder in my home, but if I do, how stupid will I feel knowing the intruder is between me and my gun, which is locked in my safe? As long as I have it, I might as well have it in a position to do some good...