Gun ownership with responsible citizens? Sure, why not. After all it is protect under our constitutional rights. But there is just so so so much more to guns and gun violence in the US than just the 2nd ammendment. I mean sure if someone feels the need to own a handgun for protection from the boogey man entering your house while you are sleeping, then sure get a gun. Even though in most cases of home invasions people aren't even awaken by a burglar or aren't even home, and by the time they wake up and see there house in ruins it is too late to draw your weapon from it's safe on the top shelf of your closet and oops, you left the key for the case downstairs to open the case, and then you struggle to get the thin safety sticker of the box of the ammo. But still, if you had managed to wake up in the middle of a home intrusion and were able to secure a loaded gun into your hands would you rationally be able to identify a thief and pull the trigger to end this persons life knowing that it wasn't your child sleep walking or going for a midnight snack, or a family member entering your house because there was a family emergency and your phone line got knocked out? I would put my money on no.
The NRA to me is just a bunch of little kids who abuse the 2nd ammendment and have no rational judgement. Speaking to a hard-core member of the NRA is 100% pointless. You could bring up 1,000 valid arguements on restrictions and limitations that should be put on "arms". It just falls upon deaf ears. If you do every manage to enter a debate with an individual of sorts you will see. If you do corner them in a legitimate arguement and have their backs against a wall, the only response you will get from them is. "Well, the second ammendment states..." Enough to make you pull your hair out and just want to move far far away from these people.
True what the previous post did say about taking guns out of the hands of responsible citizens. That would accomplish nothing at all. Guns would still remain in the hands of the wrong people and would probably become more of a threat than they were before. There could potentially be so many reasonable solutions to the gun epidemic and murder rate from guns in the US, but as long as there are assholes like the NRA defending guns and not people. Well, we all see the outcome everyday. Maybe this year we can hit that 12K murder mark from guns. We were only 200 shy last year. Good job Heston. BTW NRA...National RIFLE assoc.
Stick to what the name of your organization states. It's not NHGA.