Shooting at Las Vegas casino

If you don't follow gun safety rules, yes. Otherwise you're wrong.

 

Because they're all sane and responsible and keep total control of their guns and would never put them in a place where someone else might find and use them.

 

If Dickie's repeal and places happens, will you join a militia or just hide them?

 

If you follow gun safety rules, the gun becomes utterly useless for personal protection, so you've gained nothing *and* you're still leaving a very convenient suicide weapon around your family in a world where 1/3rd of people deal with depression.

So I'm still right.

 

No it doesn't. No you're not.

 

Why hello scary man who has come to rob my house and menace my wife. I don't know why I'm imagining you as black, but I am. Anyways, would you mind waiting here while I retrieve my gun from the carefully locked safe and then go get the ammo from the place where my children couldn't reach it? It'll take five minutes, tops.

Well, oops, it turns out I shot my wife rooting around in the kitchen and only assumed it was a burglar because I heard noises late at night. What are the fucking odds?

 

OK. I didn't grow up in whatever shithole town your grew up in, but I'll take your word for it.

 

My brother and his wife recently bought a house in a Chicago working-class neighborhood. (It is heavily Hispanic.)

They installed a home security system. No guns.

 

And even if you do somehow manage to get the burglar to wait that long, you're still a fucking idiot for bringing a gun into the scenario, because he just wants to steal some stuff and get the fuck out, and now you've made it a life-or-death situation where he has to assume it's him or you and there's a non-zero chance he makes it you.

 

I'd like to slap Truman Capote around some.

 

Yes, a lot of sane and responsible gun owners would react that way.

I keep mine in safes with trigger locks on each firearm (except for a couple of antiques, which don't have the trigger locks). The ammo is stored in my workshop in a different safe. I'm not one of those people who keep a pistol in the nightstand - just in case - or straps up to run to the grocery store for a gallon of milk. I'm a hunter and, used to be, a competitive shooter. But if the government bans all firearms today, you'll push a lot of people like me into making that kind of decision.

 

1) You are by definition not responsible if you leave your guns buried in the fucking woods where anyone can find them, locked or not.

2) I'm willing to force you to give up your hobby in exchange for not being the only developed country that experiences eight 9/11s a year worth of gun deaths. If we ever start having 30k deaths a year by hockey skate, you can force me to give up mine.