Well that sounds awful. Owning guns is a terrible thing to begin with. Hopefully more control will be put into place by congress soon enough. Gun related crime is just too prevalent in the US, and indeed in other parts of the world.
Unfortunately I expected something similar to this to come up. Average response time of a cop when called for a crime vein committed is anywhere between 4-6 minutes depending on how rural your location . Average response time of an armed citizen who is around when a crime is being committed? About 5 seconds. I'll be damned if I'm going to be unarmed somewhere. The criminals are not going to follow the law no matter how tough they are. Criminals are criminals. Gun control and bans only restrict law abiding citizens who are going to follow them. I'm not going to insult your comment or judge you, but I feel it's coming from a person who has never been put in that position. When a criminal breaks into your house, what are you going to do? Let them victimize your family, or worse? I'll be damned if that happens to me. Guns don't kill people. But a gun and set it on your kitchen table and don't touch it and let us know when it kills someone. Evil people with evil motives kill people. And if its not guns, it's something else. In china last week a man went on a stabbing rampage at a pre-school stabbing over 20 kids. So should knives be illegal? A gun is merely a tool and nothing else. It's how one decides to use that tool. Mine will be to protect me, my loved ones and anyone around, including the people who despise guns. I bet if a law abiding citizen saved your life by carrying his personal weapon, you would think differently. Like my signature states, people sleep peacefully at night while rough me stand ready to do violence on there behalf. So, are you going to be a sheep, a wolf, or a sheep dog? The sheep dog (police, fire, military) is around to protect the sheep (majority of people). They keep them in a contained area and generally watch over them. The sheep don't like the sheep dog. They see the sheep dog as an annoyance, always bossing them around and telling them what the to do. The wolf on the other hand (criminals) want to eat the sheep. They're hungry and the sheep (majority of people) are helpless and easy prey. The wolf jumps the fence in hopes of getting an easy meal. Without thinking the sheep dog runs to the protection of sheep risking his own life to save someone who feels the sheep dogs are pointless and bothersome. When the wolf leaves, for a split second the sheep appreciate the sheep dog for what it has done. When the next day rolls around, the sheep have completely forgot all that has been done for them and continue on their old ways of hating the sheep dog.
I'm a sheep dog and will be til the day I die. Ask yourself, what are you....
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