04-18-2007, 05:34 AM
Quote:I think you fail to appreciate how much dicipline goes into learning to shoot like that. Shooting from the hip and aquiring new targets in a fraction of a second with your hands... Men that can do this have won wars and saved lives... A good marksman can save lives in hostage situations by nailing the target and not nailing the hostages... For every bit of evil you can think of, I can think of the good to match it. I've saved countless numbers of livestock, cows, goats, chickens, lambs, helpless cute little animals by a good clean shot to remove something threatening them. God himself only knows how many snakes I've had to snipe, and how many lives have been effected by my efforts.
People I have trained to shoot have gone on to do some great things themselves. They don't go around blowing people's heads off... Nor do they have accidents with firearms like so many seem to do.
Guns are not evil. They are tools. Objects. People killed each other with pointy sticks, and those weren't evil either. Just the people using them.
I don't fail to appreciate that. I'm not thinking it is not good or something. I just don't care too much about it, and I for sure think a thread about a mass murder is not the right place to discuss this......well actually, if yu don'tmnd, I don't mind.
Of course I know it is people using guns that kill people. And because on a population of 250 million there are bound to be several 1000 nutcases statistiscally I don't find it a good idea that guns are sold everywhere (but you know my opinion).
People that produce and sell guns are evil though.:wacko: