I firmly believe in the fact that guns don’t kill people, people who utilize guns to kill other people do. I mean, would it be better if we used knives or baseball bats to murder each other instead? Would it be the knife or the bat that killed people then? That said, I don’t understand why, if you are using a gun for anything other than a nefarious cause, you should not register it as being yours. Or have bullets and other arms linked back to you if you bought them. But, above all, I cannot fathom why any civilized society needs to make arms that can rip people apart limb from limb.
Then again, I agree with the second amendment and fear the day when our government will illegalize our carrying guns while their soldiers can. Guns were intended to protect us from the power-mongering element in ourselves. What if the government has a list of who has guns and who doesn’t and uses that to our disadvantage? Scary thoughts, yet things to be considered. On the other hand, I would shoot my own hand off if given charge of a handgun, knowing my klutziness and nervousness when it pertains to anything violence-related, and should never be put behind a firearm. There is no way I can go hunting.
An odd thing that Michael Moore said once: There are about as many guns and gun owners in Canada as there are in this country. Yet, they don’t have nearly as many gun-related deaths as we do. Hmmmm … are we that messed up and violent of a nation? Me fear so.
