>>Well...I till try but I'm not going to be very good at that. Plus I've never been a gun owner (nor do I plan to ever be) - so as far as I'm concerned if all guns were eliminated I'd have no problem with that.
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>>Until some criminal with a gun broke into your house while you were there. Or do you think you would be able to ask him nicely to please leave?
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>What about taking measures to prevent anyone breaking into your house?
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>And if you bring your gun, what do you think you're chances are to come out of that alive? Personally, I rather see them taking my possessions rather than my life.
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>Having that gun in your house is much more likely to kill someone in your family rather than protect you from threats.
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>And statistics support that claim. But its also a fact that facts do not matter in this discussion...
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>Yesterday an 11 year old kid killed a young girl because she refused to show her puppies, and the father still insist the guns are not the problems. I mean, how completely stupid do you have to be not to see the flaw in that reasoning. Multiple lives were destroyed because of the simple fact of the gun being at hand.
>This whole discussion is stupid because of all the excuses people make not having to give up their rights to own and use guns to compensate for their small willy.
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>Unbelievable.

..and it's important to point out that our policy makers do not want to have this conversation either. I saw this pointed out very well last night... the 5 steps to NOT talk about it..

1. Exhaustment: Overwhelming us with numbers and statistics.First spew out a bunch of stats about how many shootings, how many deaths, how many school shootings..etc etc etc until you're just exhausted by it all.
2. Shifteroo: When you mix a shift with a switcheroo like we saw from presidential candidates Carson, Trump and Huckabee who shifted the conversation talking about gun violence to mental illness, and then switched from the 2nd Amendment to the 1st Amendment.
3. S**teroo: When "haters" sh_t all over the President for daring to start the conversation about gun control.
4. Horrible Suggestions: Jaw dropping stupidity from the likes of Faux "news" pundits on gun free zones that leave you unable to have a conversation due to the shock and your jaw being stuck open.
5. Too Soon: Last but not least, the argument we hear every time from these guys when another one of these mass shootings happens

Look, all I know is if we never have this conversation and we keep thinking it's too soon, we'll stay in a constant state of too late.