Ideas about guns
Published by Pyrofenix under Main on July 1, 2008I have just finished watching the most recent episode of 30 Days. The episode took a woman who lived in the Boston area and sent her to rural Ohio where she lived for 30 days with a man and his son who were gun collectors. Her outlook was that she felt there was no place for guns in the hands of anyone except police and soldiers.
She had a friend who had been killed by someone with a gun. In her neighborhood, there has been several murders. Her outlook isn’t surprising to me. The thing is, neither was his.
These two people on opposite sides of the fence have completely different experiences of guns. In the city, the sound of a gunshot means that someone has very possibly been killed. In his rural town, that sound isn’t associated with a crime and that is the basis for their opposing views.
At the end of her 30 days in Ohio, she came away with a realization that a guns sole purpose is for death. She no longer feels that only cops and soldiers should own guns but still hopes that some form of gun control can be legislated to keep guns from those who plan to do harm with them.
I’ve lived in rural areas of New England where guns don’t have the stigma that they did when I lived in the D.C area (or the Atlanta area). I have shot some guns (with my father) before and am not fond of the experience.
I, personally, dont believe automatic weapons have a purpose in our private citizens hands but can understand, and more importantly respect, those who feel the need to have a weapon for protection or sport. Alas, any regulation won’t prevent guns from entering criminals hands. It’s a poor situation without a good solution at this point.