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To: combjelly who wrote (694651)	1/22/2013 1:35:50 PM
From: bentway	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1576891

That's completely true. My uncle is a hunter and a lifetime NRA member, owns bolt action scoped deer rifles, shotguns and some pistols, all of which are used for hunting, except the pistols, which might be used on a snake on his ranch in Texas. He doesn't own any assault weapons, and doesn't want any. He doesn't see the utility in them. I'm sure he's puzzled by the NRA defending them, and large clips.

To: combjelly who wrote (694651)	1/22/2013 2:02:00 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1576891

Most gun owners are responsible and careful. The problem is the few that aren't result in a significant number of dead people. Nothing I have seen shows that the rewards outweigh the risks. I think you are right to a degree......but there are too many who are not. Not that they are large in numbers but when it comes to guns, one slacker gun owner is one too many. I can't tell you how many times I have read in the news locally that a gun owner had stored his gun in a shoebox on the top shelf of the parent's closet only to have one of his kids get the gun and shoot a sibling or a friend. Some of them are slackers.....others are gun owners who want their guns accessible in case of a break in. The result.........innocent people get shot and sometimes killed. Before the 1980s, the only people I knew who kept a handgun were Vietnam war vets. Given what they'd been through, it was understandable. There were hunters, but they mainly had a bolt action rifle, a few supplemented that with a handgun. And that was about it. A lot of things have changed since the 1980s............and we know what president is responsible for a lot of those changes.