Posted: Jan 17, 2018 4:34 pm
Cito di Pense wrote:SpeedOfSound wrote:It is precisely this fear and paranoia about danger that every gun owner needs to be trained in if he doesn't have it already by nature. Fortunately this same kind of imaginative paranoia makes you want to have a gun for protection in the first place.
Hey, I fired a rifle on a range at summer camp and had no problems. I was eleven years old or something. But there have been fewer weird experiences for me than firing a few rounds out of a hand cannon at some beer cans a couple dozen meters away. There were five or six of us in the quarry, and I liked those guys, so even though I could have, I didn't turn around and wave the gun at them.
I don't know how anyone develops that sense if they don't do it while they're young. By the time you're older, a gun is not a magical thing. Just a deadly thing.
I don't want a gun for protection. I'm so world-weary, I sometimes wish something would come along and kill me, hopefully not too slowly. At this point, I'm too old to die young. A lot of people my age kill themselves, usually with firearms, because they had it good in younger years and acutely feel it all slipping away. Maybe you could say they got fed up.
The problem with wishing someone would come along and kill you is that most of those dudes can't shoot for shit. I worry about the pain. So the best solution is to get your own gun and do it right. One of the main reasons that I own a gun is so I don't have to put on my pants, warm the car up, go to a cash machine, find a shady character in a bar, etc., when I'm in the suffocating grip of depression.