🚀 go-pugleaf

	I am new to this newsgroup, so if any of the following points 
have been solved, please ignore. Also, at this time, I am neither a 
gun-control "fanatic" nor its opposite. Please don't label me as such. 
Also not that I am not afraid to leave my name on what I have written; I 
may be wrong, I may offend you, I may be right. Either way, I take full 
reponsibiliy for my post. If a valid, civil discussion is to be had, I 
believe some people on this group should do the same.
	Please contest or agree with the following:
	
	1) I have a car. It is registered. It is still fun to drive, I 
can do everything with it that I could if it wasn't registered. Why would 
registering a gun make it less enjoyable to own, use, hunt with, etc? The 
argument "In my family, there has been a gun over the kitchen door for 
generations." So what? It still will be, especially if you are as 
responsible as most gun-owners say they are.

	2) Any object can be lethal, baseball bats, knives, etc (i 
believe many examples have been given). However, I don't think anything 
kills human beings quite as quickly and efficiently as a gun, other than 
a massive explosion. Registration (_NOT_ confiscation) of these guns 
seems reasonable to me.

	3) A basic fact: if there was no gun in my house, my kid couldn't 
shoot his friend with it. Basic fact: if the gun was locked up with a 
trigger lock, he couldn't shoot his friend either. Locking a gun up, 
therefore, seems to be a REASONABLE comprimise between owning a gun and 
insuring that it is safe. This locking up of a gun is a regulation, just 
like registration would be. These laws are meant to protect people, not 
persecute gun owners. I don't understand why gun owners think these laws 
are so much of a problem. 

	4) The people who think the American amendment of "the Right to 
Bear Arms" is valid, should remember that it was written when it took 
over a minute to reload your gun that was barely accurate past 400 yards 
(if it didn't explode in your face). 

	OK, so maybe I am for gun control. But why does this have to 
equal anti-gun ownership? It doesn't. I don't want to take your .303 
rifle from you; I want to help, as much as I can, that no one gets hurt. 
 

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