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Originally Posted by csThor
Although I do not wish to add more fuel to an already burning fire I must say I find your attitude rather sad (to put it mildly) and I really pity people like you who feel threatened by their own government to the point that they insist on owning arms on the nebulous principle that "the big bad government" wants to limit one's personal freedom. I'm not a blind believer in the good of governments, I know they're sodders, but I don't see owning weapons as a way to solve that problem.  |
Ha, if there's someone who should be very weary of governments here is you man, you live in a country whose government... well you know what happened, don't you?
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I have no problems with hunters owning weapons (not owning them would make that profession rather pointless, wouldn't it?)
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Hunting is not a profession.
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or people who like sportive shooting as a hobby. I do believe, however, that there is no need for anyone to own assault rifles, MGs or even more than one or two handguns (like, for example, the father of the young man who committed the massacre of Winnenden a few years back - the idiot owned 17 handguns!).
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obviously you don't understand the concept of
collecting. I have met people with collections in excess of 300 guns, does that make them nutters or idiots? Hardly. They just have interests and hobbies different from yours, so
have some respect for that.
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I don't see shooting clubs as an evil itself, but it is my heartfelt impression that too many privately owned weapons are a mere boost for the owner's self-esteem, a d*** replacement or an imagined cure for real or imagined faults of character/body/whatever.
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once again, you probably never handled a firearm or frequented a shooting club. The fact that
you think of guns as a boost for self-esteem makes
you sick, not the others. Gun clubs and training schools teach you to respect and fear firearms.