Thread: Pondering......

Originally Posted by earcutter

I think it might help as well, but why even have a handgun then? Don't forget the whole handgun thing. I was asked a few times in Canada if I wanted to get one - but I couldn't understand the logic.

I love handgun shooting! Love it, but a handguns sole purpose to me is to kill people. I have no illusions of myself going out and hunting with one. A beautiful 30-30 lever, or a nice .260 is what I'll reach for - or my bow. So being that I need to dismantle it, and safe it makes it useless. Moreover, I expect I'll know when the Apocalypse is coming... in which case I'll grab that 30-30 again.

Moreover in Ontario, owning a handgun dictates that the RCMP can enter your house without a warrant at any time to make sure it's properly stored. That's not a freedom I wished to lose for my love of plinking with a handgun.

Yeah it's a whole different mindset and a whole different set of reasoning. But now that I type all that - I will say that if Rhynio's were not nearly extinct, heading out with a nice revolver and a set of cohones... that would be uh, killer LOL!!

SO David, am I to infer that because a handgun's purpose to you is strictly to kill people, that I should believe the same?

I've had handguns all my adult life. I've yet to kill anyone with one. I have used to one to save my stuff on a couple of occasions. All I had to do was present it in a convincing manner. Worked like a hose.

I suppose maybe this analogy would be appropriate, those of us with tattoos don't really care if somebody doesn't have any tattoos. Yet a lot of folks without tats get all bent about those of us that do. I would apply the same about firearms.