A loud gun is a big gun.
And Terry Q. says: You only have to look down the barrel one time to know packing a gun just makes the odds even. It was my fathers job to train me, it WAS my job to train my family, I have done my job well. I don't feel I have to lock my doors at night, the sign on my door: The Dog Bites and I Shoot Well. I love freedom and fear destroys freedom. I see it as my freedom from being afraid of you. I am not a wacko, I am a American living as free as I am curently allowed to.
Its time for a new thread. "Wackos in Waco", Shoot To Thrill" "Daddys got A GUN" " My gun scares small children" " pistols and penis envy" " Just Shoot Me" " You Feel Lucky....PUNK" THATS JUST A FEW IDEAS FOR ANYONE THAT WANTS TO START A NEW THREAD
Oh yea my bike does not seem to scare anyone but my wife.
But what if the bad guys are just as well trained as you and your family mate? Looking down the barrel of a gun is only frightening to someone who hasn't had much contact with guns, i.e., law abiding citizens. If the "Bad guys" have been on the "receiving end" at a "two way rifle range", a frightened citzen shaking a .357 loaded with "god knows how old" ammo isn't much of a deterrent, or at least it wouldn't be for me, and I'm a "Good guy". We have bad guys over here too, much smaller population, but probably just as many baddies per head of capita.
It's pretty difficult to be a gun owner here in Oz nowadays after a couple of loonies went crazy and killed a lot of people in a couple of seperate mass murders a few years ago, so the time worn cliches are right, only the bad guys have got guns now, but guess what? Crime hasn't risen markedly because god fearing "good guys" have been stripped of their right to bear arms, and really, in the case of most gun related homocides here, the only thing that seperated the "Good guys" from the "Bad guys" was their intent on the day. Just like the massacres in the US over the years. the afore mentioned "loonies" were both registered gun owners with no prior criminal records, not your archtypical baddies.
I love guns, I'm lucky that my job involves handling and firing all sorts of military assualt rifles and pistols and I've got a few old antique cannons like my granddaddys old black powder shotgun that was made in 1880, or my old "Black Bess" smoothbore musket from the Napoleonic wars, and a couple of other old things up in my wardrobe in the spare room, but I like 'em for what they are, relics from another time, when they were necessary to protect your home and your loved ones. I'd hate to think that there are people out there who really think that in the 21st century when we have telephones, computers, cell phones and all sorts of electronic surveillence to deter theft and alert security agencies to a possible crime, we have to resort to carrying around "six guns" to protect ourselves? Get that thread going Terry Q, this is topical! Cheers, Terry ("no guns")
