Don't you guys ever get tired of the gun control debate?... seriously. Don't make me insert another abaya_suddeth photo in here to lighten things up!!
(DK, I don't know if you saw the first one in Playground, but it was a hit).
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Most boys are drawn to guns as well. We played solider almost daily as a kid, and my son already turns pretty much every stick like object into a gun and thats just from seeing a few video games.
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Just a sidenote about this boys vs. girls thing... Ustwo, you'd have been hard-pressed to find more of a tomboy than I was, as a kid. I tore dolls apart or used them as chemistry-set experiments
when anyone was thoughtless enough to give them to me as a gift. My toys of choice were my dad's real hammer and nails, a drill if my dad would let me get to it (I loved power tools), and trees and blocks of wood. I loved playing with bows and arrows, pretend swords, etc... but just never was attracted to the idea of guns, for whatever reason. When my dad gave me the BB gun for target practice, I just remember feeling awkward and bored... not fearful or abhoring the weapon, but just disinterested. I don't know what that says, but I just wanted to throw it in there since I wasn't your typical "girl," and I don't think attitudes towards weapons are always necessarily gender-based.
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Much like its your nature to abhor weapons, I am drawn to them, not in a 'unhealthy' way, I currently don't own a weapon more dangerous than a K-Bar, but there is something about them that carrying them seems natural.
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So, as I said, it took me a long time to develop a more negative attitude towards weapons. I wouldn't say it was in my "nature" to abhor them, but since I was so disinterested, it didn't take much observation of people and their guns around me (e.g. my crazy wanna-be militia relatives) to shift my feelings towards the negative end of the spectrum. And now, I really just do not like them. I love the idea of being able to defend myself, and when I took a self-defense course, I was very much into the various ways that I could harm someone... whatever it took, I would do it. But not with a gun, I know that.
Hope we can get this thread of the very unenlightening merry-go-round that it's currently on...