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71 replies	Author	Time	Post
Never owned a gun, never will. [View all]	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	OP
You can always	canfeild123	Feb 2018	#1
It's kind of strange when I look back on my life...	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#2
Me too.	Dave Starsky	Feb 2018	#8
Have you ever seen the video of that cop...	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#9
Was the cop's name Bernard P. Fife?	Dave Starsky	Feb 2018	#16
LOL...yes close to this. I found the video...	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#17
That is simultaneously terrifying and hilarious.	Dave Starsky	Feb 2018	#20
This one cracks me up every time	Hassin Bin Sober	Feb 2018	#43
LOL...I try not to laugh, but I can't help it.	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#52
OMG!	Egnever	Feb 2018	#51
PS, welcome to DU, canfeild123	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#3
I think if you grew up in rural America, on a farm or in the wilderness I can see the need.	Fla Dem	Feb 2018	#39
Rattlesnakes? I've had plenty of encounters with those. Nothing to get the guns out for.	hunter	Feb 2018	#61
I grew up in a family of hunter who ate the meat	trixie2	Feb 2018	#67
I feel the same as you do. Never owned one, never wanted one,	Wwcd	Feb 2018	#4
I was just pondering that...	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#5
In my opinion, "I'm a responsible, law-abiding gun-owner, but..."	Aristus	Feb 2018	#6
I tend to agree.	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#7
I think it was either the same day or the same week as Sandy Hook.	Aristus	Feb 2018	#10
Yep...another one that I've been seeing a lot of lately...	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#11
To that I say	loyalsister	Feb 2018	#71
Yang Qingpei killed 19 on September 29, 2016 in his home village with a knife. On 18 September...	Marengo	Feb 2018	#33
Like you, I've never owned a gun and never desired to own a gun.	Arkansas Granny	Feb 2018	#12
Love the last sentence.	Iggo	Feb 2018	#13
.	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#15
Me too, but I am 55.	BigmanPigman	Feb 2018	#38
Same here.	ananda	Feb 2018	#14
.	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#18
More than half the people who don't own a gun now could see themselves doing so in the future.	WhiskeyGrinder	Feb 2018	#19
Do you have a link for that?	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#21
Yes.	WhiskeyGrinder	Feb 2018	#22
OK thanks. I'll look at it, but that does not change my opinion	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#23
Oh, I wasn't trying to change your opinion.	WhiskeyGrinder	Feb 2018	#24
Do you know many people who have fired a gun at someone in self-defense...	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#26
A couple who have done the latter.	WhiskeyGrinder	Feb 2018	#29
Did they have a gun pointed at them when this happened?	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#30
One, no; don't know about the others.	WhiskeyGrinder	Feb 2018	#34
"a valuable part of self-protection..."	hunter	Feb 2018	#35
Nor I.	tavernier	Feb 2018	#25
That is your choice (and I respect it)	melm00se	Feb 2018	#27
How many people do you know that have used a gun for self-defense?	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#28
Lived out in the country and used one to	safeinOhio	Feb 2018	#36
Agree.	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#37
If you are in by the time the street	safeinOhio	Feb 2018	#66
This message was self-deleted by its author	Skittles	Feb 2018	#69
Not everyone	melm00se	Feb 2018	#41
I have made it 53 years without one.	logosoco	Feb 2018	#31
same...nt	G_j	Feb 2018	#32
Me neither. I'm 70 and was actually threatened for video taping illegal	sinkingfeeling	Feb 2018	#40
Never owned a gun, can't imagine a situation where I ever would.	Stonepounder	Feb 2018	#42
I have the best kind of "gun"	leftieNanner	Feb 2018	#44
We have to convince the gun lovers that we don't want to take away their guns	FakeNoose	Feb 2018	#45
I owned one when I was a police officer (when dinosaurs roamed the earth).	Vinca	Feb 2018	#46
Same here	NRaleighLiberal	Feb 2018	#47
No guns for me	Vanessa Rose	Feb 2018	#48
Welcome to DU! n/t	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#49
Thank you	Vanessa Rose	Feb 2018	#65
I've owned a number of guns over the years.	Paladin	Feb 2018	#50
I don't let anyone I'd care to shoot live in my head.	hunter	Feb 2018	#53
You are far BRAVER than anyone who needs a gun for courage.	joanbarnes	Feb 2018	#54
Thank you for saying that, but I'm far from brave.	LuckyCharms	Feb 2018	#56
Me either	extvbroadcaster	Feb 2018	#55
I don't currently own a gun,	jb5150	Feb 2018	#57
This is where the debate gets stuck...	DaDeacon	Feb 2018	#58
But they come to the argument with their own absolute: Second Amendment, so fuck you.	Iggo	Feb 2018	#59
that's true, sometimes but...	DaDeacon	Feb 2018	#60
We've been coming to them with baby steps for years.	Iggo	Feb 2018	#62
yes we have	DaDeacon	Feb 2018	#64
start by considering the NRA a fucking TERRORIST organziation	Skittles	Feb 2018	#70
YMMV -exactly correct.	aikoaiko	Feb 2018	#63
Grew up the son of a Marine...around guns my whole life. Like shooting them	jmg257	Feb 2018	#68

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