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by gcbv_Archive
Getting back to the subject at hand, I think Steve had a good point about initially separating the country/city cultures.
I grew up in South Texas, where it was quite common to have a gun. Nothing much was thought of it. (Now you can have a concealed weapon legally, and not much is thought of it unless you're an Austinite yuppie).
During High School, the politics of gun-owning started to become a public issue (or diversion, according to your look on life). I distinctly remember kids being pulled into the parking lot and sent home because the "gun sniffing dog" barked and they found .22 shells in someone's truck. He had been hunting with his family that weekend, and just forgot to take them out.
Of course, it was all overblown, as it was a headbutting of cultures.
Nobody was ever shot at my school. Nobody was ever threatened to be shot at my school. A shitload of deer, however, were shot around my school on the weekends.
My argument for owning guns for the express reasoning of "defending yourself" is that you simply own a high-powered tazer.
They incapacitate the burglar/offender/schizophrenic, they are non-lethal (sans heart condition), and to be honest, people getting tazed are quite a hoot to watch, and make the greatest sounds.
But I digress. Please continue with the squirrel circuit semantic debate.