Poll: Do you own a gun? If so, why?

[secretsantaone]

It's good that America has guns but not that the rest of the civilised world has them.

Why?

Because we all get the benefits of less gun crime, America get's to look big and tough and if our governments turn into a facist state, America can ride in and remove the government as it threatens their 'freedom and liberty' that has been stuffed down their throats. Everyone wins.

However, the idea of a gun for protection is idiotic. If you're threatened, it will be by a gun. Try quick-drawing your pistol when you have a shotgun aimed at your head.

 

[666thHeretic]

I've got one for hunting. Don't know if it's any good for home defense, though, it's a rifle and the area around where I keept it is kind of tight on space. Would be kind of akward to use it, but I suppose I could figure something out.

 

[Guitar Gamer]

well those darn zombies aren't going to kill themselves are they? but on topic I would if I could but I can't

 

[Pandalisk]

To shoot things i deem shoot-able

 

[Fronken]

I own a gun for protection but I don't even have any ammuntion for it. Don't make much sense does it?

None at all. ^^

And my personally, i would never buy a firearm, i dont see the reason for it, i've never understood why americans seem so damn turned on by their constitution so they just pump out weapons for the public to use/misuse.

A great example is Sweden, here only a handfull of the criminals have them, meaning there arent many in circulation, which in turn lowers accidents and teenage shootings and such.

I'll be 20 years this winter and i haven't seen a single gun in my entire life (except on policemen).

 

[Mozared]

No, because you're allowed one that easily in my country.

 

[Baby Tea]

The gun a man has shows how tuff and manly he is.

Pardon? A gun doesn't make a man tough, or a man. It makes him a person with a gun.

I don't own a gun, but would certainly like to. Not a handgun, but a rifle for target shooting.
Not for protection, and not for hunting (Nothing against it, but it's not my thing).
Just target shooting.

 

[Pipotchi]

I own a few guns for hunting and what-not. None of this "It's to protect my family" bullshit. Mine's to get meat for me and my family.

I have several guns, I use them for hunting, recreation and protection.

Yes, to kill deer, birds, opossums, racoons, you(everyone reading this post, I'm watching you) with.

I sometimes need to put down my raving fans with force.

Nah, just kidding. I like to go hunting occasionally during the autumn.

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I hope you actually eat the meat, other wise your just killing animals for the sake of it, which is barbaric in my opinion.

The idea of it all still seems barbaric in itself,just that you don't eat the meat is more barbaric, along with fishing in my mind, why kill some thing, when you could by a version ment for slaughter?

For instance chickens. The ones that are bred for meat, don't know what true life is like, so I don't mind eating them, as they don't know that this is "cruel"( I use that term loosely) treatment for them.

Where as if you kill a fish in a river, or a rabbit in the forest, or even a dear, that animal was living a "normal" life, until you came along and shot it with out real need to. Which I believe is barbaric.

This is a truly bizarre arguement, it seems to hinge on the idea that as long as an animal is never treated humanely in captivity its ok as it has no frame of reference? At least the animal that was in the wild before being hunted had a chance to live as nature intended before it became dinner. A battery farmed chicken never has that, it will live its short life in agonising pain.

but hey it never knew better eh? Stupid chicken!

 

[Rooster Cogburn]

It's good that America has guns but not that the rest of the civilised world has them.

Why?

Because we all get the benefits of less gun crime, America get's to look big and tough and if our governments turn into a facist state, America can ride in and remove the government as it threatens their 'freedom and liberty' that has been stuffed down their throats. Everyone wins.

However, the idea of a gun for protection is idiotic. If you're threatened, it will be by a gun. Try quick-drawing your pistol when you have a shotgun aimed at your head.

You are wrong. I live in the United States, and most crimes of opportunity do not involve guns. I myself have been savagely beaten by unarmed men. They didn't have a gun, even though they operate in a state where guns are freely available. I wish I had a gun that day.

Although I think you meant it as an insult, I lament that our 'freedom and liberty' is mostly rhetoric. American freedom died in 1865, as reported in London papers. America is now 'free' the way Stalin was 'communist.' That is, in name only. I do not think America should fight overseas, except in defense of the people of France and Britain.

 

[microhive]

I own a shotgun. I once shot myself with a plastic bullet just to check how much it'd hurt. IT FUCKING HURTS LIKE HELL!

 

[Pipotchi]

On topic I dont own a gun, I am perfectly happy holding out my hands in the shape of a gun and flinging myself around the house a la Chow Yun fat in the Killer

 

[Musicfreak]

To young to own one but when I'm old enough I may decide to go out and get one. Although my neighborhoods nice enough that I might not need one so I'm still debating.
Oh and as for the whole gun control issue I will say the same thing I always say

Guns Don't kill people a poorly funded educational system kills people.

Banning guns only takes them out of the hands of law abiding citizens not criminals who don't obey the law.

 

[Sewblon]

I own guns, for use against bears and when the bomb goes off I won't be able to count on the police.

 

[ac2c_Hellreike]

I would own a gun if i could spare the cash. right now my spare cash is being put away for a motorcycle....after that, i think i'll buy a Taurus model 608. thats an 8-shot .357 magnum. not the biggest, but powerful enough to put a man down, and with the right load, a man wearing a bulletproof vest. I suppose motivation behind the purchase would come down to protecting my house and my wife, but even without the gun i'd still put my life on the line to save hers.

 

[thiosk]

My gun is simply an extension of my penis. There is no other reason.

 

[Lordmoomoo]

My dad owns a 12 bore and a 20 bore, both of which i use, and also a poacher style 4/10 (silenced and fully foldable) and also multiple air rifles/pistols. All the shotguns are for clay and game shooting only, as there is no real need for self defense where i live (rural England).

 

[letsnoobtehpwns]

The gun a man has shows how tuff and manly he is.

Pardon? A gun doesn't make a man tough, or a man. It makes him a person with a gun.

I don't own a gun, but would certainly like to. Not a handgun, but a rifle for target shooting.
Not for protection, and not for hunting (Nothing against it, but it's not my thing).
Just target shooting.

It shows how manly you are because the higher caliber bullets you fire, the more kick the gun has. You have to have some serious balls to handle some of the rifles today and fire them accurately.