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One of bizarre thing about all these gun threads is how every gun owner who pipes up is always so damn responsible: loaded guns in a safe, unloaded guns in the car, etc. It never seems to strike any of them that these precautions render the guns (at least those intended for protection), practically useless. Some burglar, car-jacker or whatever, is going to wait while you go find your gun or load it...?
I have a lot of trouble believing someone who feels insecure enough to want a gun, then renders it harmless or puts it so far out of reach to be useless. And if most gun owners did behave that way, how come there are still so many tragic accidents?
The analogy with cars and cleaners really doesn't work. Life itself is dangerous. I was walking down the street a couple of days ago and got hit by a - thankfully small - falling branch. But a gun has no purpose except to harm. Introduce one into your environment and you have introduced a risk which has no positive side unless one day your safety is threatened. And only then if you can get to it fast enough and use it effectively.
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