Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Want a gun? Take a bullet: [View all]librarylu
(503 posts)when family-oriented Walmart didn't sell guns. Sales were sagging so.......
After Sandy Hook I did sign petitions asking Walmart to stop selling AK15s. I don't know if anything came of it. Did I not have a right to do that? I may have a right to decide the gun counter should not be there but I don't have the power to get it removed. There's a gun store in town; people wouldn't be too inconvenienced.
The gun store used to be my favorite hardware store until they gave up #2 screwdrivers and tomato plants and went all guns instead. They now look barricaded and closed. Maybe they are closed. I can only hope.
Is it okay for me to change channels when the damned gun commercials come on?
I do better than close my eyes near Walmart's gun counter. I avoid that whole half of the store.
What does "That's the anti-gun version of 'I got mine, good luck' " mean? In addition to being shot by my loving husband (who'd consumed a bottle of whiskey sold to him by my best friend in Al-Anon) I've been through four armed robberies and had a gun aimed at me twice more (same husband in two different blackouts). There've been two home burglaries in two different states (I wasn't home at the time) and another armed robbery on a store I owned when I wasn't there. I know from experience that if I'd had a gun and gone for it at the very least I'd have lost the gun too. I live almost next door to a woman who may be certifiable but has a shotgun and "knows how to use it". I know she does since she once pulled it on a former friend of mine.
I refuse to live in perpetual fear. Now, what are all the good reasons for owning guns again? Plinking? Shooting defenseless animals? 2nd Amendment says so? Other?