UF Statistic - Poll About Guns
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My dad had me go through a hunters and firearm safety class when I was 12. Then again, I was living in Minnesota where everyone owned a gun or hunted.
It was a long, and very good class.
Later, I went to a high school that actually had a rifle range in the basement (military school). Marksmanship was a required course in our military leadership classes for one quarter every year.
So, ya, I think everyone should at least be trained in responsible gun use.
It was a long, and very good class.
Later, I went to a high school that actually had a rifle range in the basement (military school). Marksmanship was a required course in our military leadership classes for one quarter every year.
So, ya, I think everyone should at least be trained in responsible gun use.
i wasn't raised around guns, so i don't know anything about them really. i also fear the stupidity of the public when it comes to everyone having guns. i am also a parent...a parent who thinks of my children playing at houses where guns are not just present but easily obtainable. i have known two people (kids) who have played with guns and been injured because of them. they intimidate me because i do not trust people to know what they are doing or be responsible with them. they also intimidate me because i don't know about them. all that is enough for me to be wary of a general public with guns.
"I use guns for shooting clays and targets but don't own one, and wouldn't keep it on me, in my car or at my house if I did" (at the range or ranch only)
i fall in the grey area between the first two, but not for lack of education.
i fall in the grey area between the first two, but not for lack of education.
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You believe people should not use the tools available to protect themselves at all time?
I believe that people who feel they need to protect themselves at all times hold an adversarial "us vs them" mentality that creates problems in everyday life.
I believe that people who don't have protection on them work harder to avoid conflict.
I also believe that when conflict arises between unprotected people, the outcome is less drastic.
I must be wrong since so many people disagree, but those are my beliefs. I don't mind being wrong.
There is fairly sufficient evidence to contradict this statement, and you can actually thank WAW for posting it in the other thread. 315,000 people in Florida actively carry. Do you think that if all of those people went around with a chip on their shoulder looking for problems to fix, tried to be hero, or ended their arguments by flashing their weapon there wouldn't be all kinds of legal problems?
Every CCWer I've ever known is more polite in public and in their lives than most others. They say "please", "thank you", and "excuse me". They do not eyeball gangbangers, talk down to waiters in restaurants, and rarely (if ever) drink while carrying.
I personally don't act any different when I'm carrying then when I'm not, and the internet aside I am very polite person and probably "let things go" more often than I should.
Also incorrect. A large part of most good pistol/CCW courses have a "mindset" section in which they teach to use brain first, your feet second, and your weapon after all other alternatives have been exhausted.
The guy who taught my CCW course said it best "I'd much rather run home as a coward then have to look into the eyes of the mother of the gangbanger I just killed".
Not really, most interactions involving defensive use of a gun end up being non-lethal, you just never hear about them because they don't make the news. Also, in un-armed confrontation the ending is always the same: the bigger man wins, the smaller man gets beaten to a pulp or killed.
You aren't wrong, you're just uneducated.
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I chose 'should consider'. I'm not educated enough about them to consider, nor do I really want to be. But if you are educated enough to consider, you can always say no.
eileenbunny
Druish Princess
There isn't an option for where I stand on guns in this poll. Voting for the first one would make me look like I am against guns. The second makes me look like I am for them, and the third makes me look like I don't have an opinion. There's a lot of gray area here. I've stated my opinion on this issue many times before on the forum and I've researched it thoroughly. I know that I would never own a gun because I could not ever shoot someone, but that's just me. I don't think that everyone has to be like me though.