NYT "For Some, Owning Guns Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Liking Them"

[Big Dipper]

The national debate over firearms regulation is often presented as a battle of extremes: those who view any effort to tighten gun laws as an infringement ...

While she and her husband, Richard, have a gun in their suburban home for personal protection, they store it and the bullets in separate rooms. And Ms. Wilson acknowledges that she would sooner throw her cat at an intruder than shoot someone. The gun does not make her feel safer.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/us/gun-owners-arent-always-gun-lovers.html?pagewanted=2&exprod=myyahoo

Mayor Blooming-idiot must be real happy with this "hit piece".

 

[kusai]

Re: NYT "For Some, Owning Guns Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Liking Them"

Good forbidden let's hear them after they confront an armed intruder.

Sent from the black hole

 

[Younggun]

NYT "For Some, Owning Guns Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Liking Them"

Mr. Kundu, the competitive sharpshooter, agreed. “I’ve always thought the Second Amendment is secondary to everyone being able to feel safe and secure in their lives,” he said. “Fewer guns would lead to fewer deaths, there’s no question about that.”


Dumbest thing I've ever heard.

At least he admitted it would only make certain people feel safe. The. Went on to make a statement that has no actual evidence and actually has been discredited by studies yet present it as fact.

 

[TheDan]

Unfortunately I know people like that...

 

[Charlie]

What a bunch of tools! How can someone feel "uncomfortable" about storing a gun? They need to either poop or get off the pot! Can't have it both ways. Do they want to protect themselves or not? Buncha' PhoKing no-brained, idiots!

 

[kabob]

If the firearm and ammo are both locked away and in separate rooms, wouldn't you already be dead by the time an intruder breaks in? And exactly what are you going to do once an intruder breaks in and you somehow manage to get to the firearm and load it (must be one slow-ass intruder)? You never practice or fired "the despicable thing" so at best you'll be shooting holes in your house and at worst you'll freeze up and be dead.

 

[kabob]

Are these people schizophrenic? Ban the guns, especially so-called assault rifles, that they themselves bought and own? Hypocrisy doesn't even begin to cover it.

 

[Charlie]

Never mind! S.O.S.

 

[majormadmax]

Mr. Kundu, the competitive sharpshooter, agreed. “I’ve always thought the Second Amendment is secondary to everyone being able to feel safe and secure in their lives,” he said. “Fewer guns would lead to fewer deaths, there’s no question about that.

Dumbest thing I've ever heard.

Agreed, by that logic we should get rid of vehicles (responsible for 32,367 deaths in 2011), fast food (obesity causes approximately 100,000–400,000 deaths in the US per year) or any of the other causes of death that are far more prevalent than firearms...

 

[recoveringyankee]

Agreed, by that logic we should get rid of vehicles (responsible for 32,367 deaths in 2011), fast food (obesity causes approximately 100,000–400,000 deaths in the US per year) or any of the other causes of death that are far more prevalent than firearms...

but, but, but... GUN!!!!!!

 

[General Zod]

If the firearm and ammo are both locked away and in separate rooms, wouldn't you already be dead by the time an intruder breaks in? And exactly what are you going to do once an intruder breaks in and you somehow manage to get to the firearm and load it (must be one slow-ass intruder)? You never practice or fired "the despicable thing" so at best you'll be shooting holes in your house and at worst you'll freeze up and be dead.

My thoughts exactly. Essentially what they're doing is providing a firearm to anyone who ransacks their home, while simultaneously making that firearm useless for home defense. And why the eff would they store the ammunition in a separate room? It's not like it's gonna sneak out and have a fling with the gun in the middle of the night...

 

[Southpaw]

And why the eff would they store the ammunition in a separate room? It's not like it's gonna sneak out and have a fling with the gun in the middle of the night...

Because the anti-gun agenda has them thinking somehow it might. It amazes me what some people believe about firearms and it's pure BS.

 

[Doc Roe]

Did the Times writer ever consider the fact that, maybe, just MAYBE, this person doesn't feel safe because they know that their gun is virtually useless/inaccessible in the event that they find themselves needing it? IIRC, NY law makes what the couple does -mandatory-.