Originally Posted by
mtnairlover
Thanks Pandora. I do appreciate what you said.
Now, on to trying to wade through all of this mess.
Jason, David and Ryan...I said what I said because that is what is on the side of the argument FOR gun control. I made it personal, because you guys know me...hoping (for some stupid reason....I have no idea why now) that maybe you guys would get it. It isn't about me, or my loss...it's about the bigger picture. So, I'll say it again...
On one side you have gun-lovers...on the other you have gun-haters. Somewhere in between, you have gun control.
It does not matter to the gun-haters that the reason they were hurt by a gun just happens to have been because the person pulling the trigger had something wrong with him/her. And don't get me started on the whole BS argument that it's gotta be a "woman" thing, cuz it's so emotional.
I never said it was a "woman" thing, you might just be alluding to it as it somehow got brought up.
Let me turn the coin here for a moment and ask you all this question. If there were no gun control whatsoever...nothing at all. Everyone can get a gun no matter who they are and all other laws are the same as they are now. What do you think would happen? What kind of society would we live in? What would your neighborhood be like? What would run down neighborhoods be like? What about across the country in some of the worst places to live?
What do I think would happen? I would think that more and more law abiding people would purchase firearms for their own safety. As I've said before and again. Law Enforcement is way understaff in order to be your personal body guard. So in one's best interest of self-preservation, one might go out and buy a gun for protection.
I hate it when people play the victim card, as if it's a valid point. There's nothing valid about playing the victim. Obviously people get made the victim through circumstance such as crime. However, whether or not you choose to remain in that situation is totally up to you and your family. You can either live in fear and don't go outside, or people and their neighborhoods can band together, take a stance and push the crime out. Fight fire with fire, this BS notion that you can reason with thugs and gangs is a losing cause. If people would just stand up and run these bastards out, then crime as we know it would diminish. Because in the long run, you'll have way more law abiding and good people then you do criminal and bad people.
No matter how you pose a hypothetical situation, my answer and stance will remain the same. Besides in your hypothetical situation, I'd still be in the same boat I'm in now. I'm armed at all times and have no worries whatsoever. So it would affect me very little. Awareness would increase as it should now, but that's about all I'd change.
Don't answer those questions here. Just think about it. Think about all the different kinds of people out there.
Just did...
Now, think about this idea...your "right" to bear arms also hurts others...inadvertently, but it still happens. It's an idea, so don't answer this either.
To be honest Cathy, that's not my problem that it hurts someone else. I pride myself in being as compassionate as I can. In working to be christ-like towards my fellow citizens. But I'm not stupid Cathy, it's a Dog Eat Dog world out there and some people are just bad. You can't hold me accountable for "people's feelings getting hurt" because I excercise my right to bear arms.
As I said before, people's lives and destiney's are up to themselves. Life is what you make of it. You can either sit and worry about it or you can stare it straight in the face and accept it for what it is.
My point is, gun control isn't going away. How can you make it better for you and for those who do not own guns? Why not try and figure out a way to make both sides happy?