Thread: Women and Guns
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Old 04-12-2009, 06:17 PM   #4 (permalink)
Lindy
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Originally Posted by genuinegirly View Post
Ladies - let's hear your voice.
What do you think (or don't think) about guns?
What shaped your opinions?
Have you shot a gun?
Do you wear one for protection?
Do you feel safe around someone that has a gun?

I get sick when I think about guns.
I wasn't raised around gun, though I did shoot a rifle at summer camp one year....I wouldn't ever carry a gun myself. I wouldn't feel confident shooting it. I doubt I could keep it from getting turned on me if the situation arose where I could use it. I hear that it's essential to carry a gun while hiking some backcountry trails - the only way to protect yourself against bears. But I wonder how much a little handgun would protect me from a grizzly - I'd rather wear bear bells, then run if I happen to see one coming my way.
What do you think (or don't think) about guns?
I think of a gun as a tool. Something that I don't need to or want to use very often. Where I live (Boston) there just isn't any easy and convenient place to keep up my skills. I do often shoot when visiting home in Kansas. I think that guns are often used as a scapegoat for failed social policies.

What shaped your opinions?
Have you shot a gun?

I grew up in rural Kansas. Guns were just a part of life. I first fired a gun (.22 rifle) when I was about ten years old. My first part time job was at an Izaac Walton League shooting range. Later on, I got to be quite a good shot. I broke 50 straight shooting skeet with a 20 gauge shotgun when I was in high school. That is no small feat, and I am still quite proud of it. I grew up going hunting with siblings and relatives. I've picked birdshot out of my teeth.

Do you wear one for protection?
No, partly because that would require a license that I don't have, and partly because I don't feel the need to carry a gun for protection. I try to avoid situations where carrying a gun would be necessary or desirable.

Do you feel safe around someone that has a gun?
Well now, that would depend entirely on the person that has the gun. I feel perfectly safe in my home town with my relatives and their guns, even though some of them are probably Second Amendment fanatics (which I am not.) I grew up as a country hick, and I am always surprised by the irrational fear that some otherwise sophisticated urbanites have of guns which, absent human direction, are just another inanimate object. I must confess that in some areas of Boston I wonder just who might be carrying, in violation of the already strict (but ineffective) laws.

gg, I think that considering your fears and attitude toward guns that you certainly should NOT carry a gun. It sounds like you would be more afraid of the gun than you would be afraid of anything that someone might do to you.

Lindy
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