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<blockquote data-quote="marineimaging" data-source="post: 72805460" data-attributes="member: 355761"><p>There is a difference between a right and a privelege but as for our gun laws being too lax, not at all. In fact they are too restrictive. What is too lax is a government that demands to arrest parents trying to exercise proper discipline with their children. What is crazy out of control are the doctors who keep distributing mind altering drugs to normal teenagers and even kindergarten age children without restraint or oversight. They are creating the outrage and lack of moral guidance by removing the role of parents in the lives of their children. What is crazy out of control is the violent video games which laugh at self restraint. What is wildly out of control are the number of fatherless homes and parents whose days are about their personal pleasure and nothing else.</p><p></p><p>The right to keep and bear arms is a human right, our right, and it is your right as well. It is not a privilege such as doctoring or driving or hairdressing or engineering. The government has no right to interfere with our birthrights but they do anyway. As for the firearm itself, be it an automatic machine gun, or a semi-automatic Modern Modular Sport Rifle or a cracker pistol is nothing more than a device. What in the world makes the operator of a gun range any more capable or responsible for hundreds of peoples guns than me and for my own guns? Absolutely nothing. Besides, I can't get to it to protect my home and wife and neighbors if it is at the range. Now can I? </p><p></p><p>I have carried guns since I was 10 years old. For work, for pleasure, for sustenance hunting, for a variety of reasons. During a flood I had my semi-automatic pistol on my hip and a rifle slung over my shoulder as did my neighbors and as did the owners and employees of our local hardware store. After the flood was over and we were back to normal the firearms were put away. Nobody was shot, nobody even nicked by a bullet. Nor was anybody intimidated but the criminal element driving around looking to loot the evacuated homes. I was the only one that stayed back, sleeping in my garage on my boat since I didn't know how deep the water was going to rise to. After the flood waters receded these obvious thugs drove down our road slowly looking for an easy target. I stepped out with a 9mm on my hip and a shotgun on a sling and the moment the saw me they peeled out and never looked, or came back.</p><p></p><p>When we go to church our teacher and I and several others of my brothers in Christ talk about a new gun or scope we bought, or maybe a day at the range. My wife has her .38 in her purse and we sit in the front row during the sermon. Meanwhile there are at lease 12-18 others behind me with concealed guns and I have never worried about them one little bit. I guess that you have to value freedom more than people control to understand how intrinsic it is to being an American.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="marineimaging, post: 72805460, member: 355761"] There is a difference between a right and a privelege but as for our gun laws being too lax, not at all. In fact they are too restrictive. What is too lax is a government that demands to arrest parents trying to exercise proper discipline with their children. What is crazy out of control are the doctors who keep distributing mind altering drugs to normal teenagers and even kindergarten age children without restraint or oversight. They are creating the outrage and lack of moral guidance by removing the role of parents in the lives of their children. What is crazy out of control is the violent video games which laugh at self restraint. What is wildly out of control are the number of fatherless homes and parents whose days are about their personal pleasure and nothing else. The right to keep and bear arms is a human right, our right, and it is your right as well. It is not a privilege such as doctoring or driving or hairdressing or engineering. The government has no right to interfere with our birthrights but they do anyway. As for the firearm itself, be it an automatic machine gun, or a semi-automatic Modern Modular Sport Rifle or a cracker pistol is nothing more than a device. What in the world makes the operator of a gun range any more capable or responsible for hundreds of peoples guns than me and for my own guns? Absolutely nothing. Besides, I can't get to it to protect my home and wife and neighbors if it is at the range. Now can I? I have carried guns since I was 10 years old. For work, for pleasure, for sustenance hunting, for a variety of reasons. During a flood I had my semi-automatic pistol on my hip and a rifle slung over my shoulder as did my neighbors and as did the owners and employees of our local hardware store. After the flood was over and we were back to normal the firearms were put away. Nobody was shot, nobody even nicked by a bullet. Nor was anybody intimidated but the criminal element driving around looking to loot the evacuated homes. I was the only one that stayed back, sleeping in my garage on my boat since I didn't know how deep the water was going to rise to. After the flood waters receded these obvious thugs drove down our road slowly looking for an easy target. I stepped out with a 9mm on my hip and a shotgun on a sling and the moment the saw me they peeled out and never looked, or came back. When we go to church our teacher and I and several others of my brothers in Christ talk about a new gun or scope we bought, or maybe a day at the range. My wife has her .38 in her purse and we sit in the front row during the sermon. Meanwhile there are at lease 12-18 others behind me with concealed guns and I have never worried about them one little bit. I guess that you have to value freedom more than people control to understand how intrinsic it is to being an American. [/QUOTE]
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