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Originally posted by punkworld
They're scared, and a gun in your hand gives a feeling of power and thus a (false) sense of security.
I think that rationally, many of them understand that guns cause deaths (duh), but they don't want to give up their power because they're scared of the government, their neighbours, black people, muslims, etc.
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Again, as stated numerous times before in this thread, there are plenty of people who own guns and use them for other things than self defense, such as hunting or sport shooting. They have shotguns on cruise ships, do you think thats incase someone gets rowdy and needs to be shot with a shotgun? Of course not, its because once you get out to sea you can go skeet shooting off the side of the ship. The people who own rifles and handguns and keep them locked in a safe in the basement of their house, do they do that incase someone breaks in, they can run down 2 or 3 stories to the basement, unlock the gun case, run back upstairs, adn defend their home? No, they have them so that on the weekends or during hunting season they can go out and target shoot, or go hunting. And by the way, its been proven that hunting is good for the animal population, which is why they allow it in the first place.