Gun ownership in this day and age

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I don’t think owning a firearm is intrinsically evil. Although, owning an unregistered firearm in Canada could be asking for trouble.

Usually, fear is rooted in lack of knowledge or understanding of something. If she doesn’t know anything about firearms, it’s not surprising that she’s dead set against them. If you can convince her to attend a firearms safety course, especially one that offers closely supervised shooting time, and real hands-on training in the care and maintenance of a firearm, with the understanding that you won’t push at her beyond that, she may be a bit more receptive to the thought of you owning one. Maybe discuss with her the possibility of investing in a gun safe, and possibly trigger locks. (That being said, these so-called safety precautions rather defeat the purpose of owning a firearm for personal protection and home defense. You usually need it faster than you can access it.)

Also, pray with and for her in regards to this subject. God made men to be protectors of families, and a firearm is a valid means of doing exactly that.
 
JoyccTheTrucker said:
Usually, fear is rooted in lack of knowledge or understanding of something. If she doesn’t know anything about firearms, it’s not surprising that she’s dead set against them.
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That’s actually a false correlation as demonstrated by countries that implemented strict gun controls and firearms surrender programs. The fear comes from knowing that more guns in the general population means more massacres, murders and suicides but mostly massacres which are a shocking event in any community.
 
Plenty of countries have strict gun control and are dangerous places. The most heavily armed (legally) places in the United States are extremely safe.
 
Yep. In the 50s and 60s anybody could walk into a gun store and walk out with a semi-automatic weapon with a high capacity magazine.
How many mass shootings were there?
 
Guns make killing too easy. I don’t have to be as worried about being shot and dieing as I do being stabbed and missing a few weeks work.

Guns kill way too easy. You can even get winged in the leg and die of an embolism.

Got it grandpa?
 
We have lots of gang and drug related violence in quite a few major metropolitan areas.

Why has the homicide rate in the U.S. gone down dramatically in the last 25 years, while the number of guns owned has increased dramatically?

Why is El Paso, with lax gun laws, very safe while Ciudad Juarez a few feet away where guns are illegal is the murder capital of the world?

Why are the most heavily armed places in the U.S. some of the safest places in the world?
 
Raising the odds I get shot a die isn’t safer. I can’t get shot if there are no guns.
 
Hey, if we could have a world with no guns I’d be all for it. Unfortunately that’s a fantasy.
 
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Yep. In the 50s and 60s anybody could walk into a gun store and walk out with a semi-automatic weapon with a high capacity magazine.
How many mass shootings were there?
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Yes, that was the same in most Western countries during that time. The ideological difference is that when gun crime began to rise leading countries to restrict guns, the US decided to increase gun ownership. Blind Freddy can see the correct correlation since then.
 
Gun ownership has risen dramatically in the last 25 years, so why has the homicide rate dropped significantly?
 
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