Shawn
Junior Member
This is just a random bit of thoughts rolling around in my head from comments I have read. I'm not saying if I agree or not with carrying a firearm.
First of all - I own firearms and enjoy hunting with them and shooting them.
However they are locked in a safe in my house and I do not feel the need to carry a firearm.
I feel relativly safe walking around the streets of our city. There are only a couple areas that I feel a little unsecure. However I know that likely the criminal element will be carrying a knife and not a gun. If everyone was to carry a firearm then the criminal element would also be carrying. The concept of escilation.
It is not likely that anyone would walk through a school or an office in my city shooting at people because guns are farily difficult and expensive to get. That is also famous last words also.
I worry about a regular person carrying a firearm. Do they know how to use it. What if they miss or shoot someone by mistake. Take this incident what if someone pulled out their gun to shoot this guy on the rampage and somone else only saw part of what was going on and they shoot the guy stopping the rampaging guy.
What if the guy shoots and misses and hits a kid on the other side of the street ? Who is responsible for the child getting shot. How would that affect you if it was you who missed the target and hit a child.
You can say that you train with your firearm and you won't miss but I have witnessed a city cop empty a clip on a bear 10 feet away and miss every single round. I have seen a hunter shoot 4 rounds at a bull elk and wonder why he missed and not realize that his gun was not even loaded. He was in disbelief until we proved there was no brass on the ground. Adreneline can do strange things with your mind and body.
If a criminal knows a home owner has a gun and they have a gun instead of breaking in the front door why wouldn't they break into the bedroom and get the drop on the sleeping person. Maybe use some sort of other weapon to disable the gun owner.
We also recently had an incident in our province where a 4yr old loaded a .22 and shot through a bedroom door and almost killed his 1yr old sister. The dad had left the gun in his closet unlocked and the little boy found it.
More guns = more accidents, harder to kill yourself or anyone with an accidental discharge of a knife.
Couple years ago a guy was killed by a gun shot wound too his leg and he bled to death. He was riding a ski-doo with a hand gun and it went off and he shot himself in the leg and bled to death.
What about carrying a gun in a car everyday on your commute and getting into a vehicle accident and the gun go off and you may survive the car accident but a bullet through the lungs from your own gun wouldn't be a nice day.
Like I said just a bunch of rambling and rumlings in my head. It is a slow day at work.
First of all - I own firearms and enjoy hunting with them and shooting them.
However they are locked in a safe in my house and I do not feel the need to carry a firearm.
I feel relativly safe walking around the streets of our city. There are only a couple areas that I feel a little unsecure. However I know that likely the criminal element will be carrying a knife and not a gun. If everyone was to carry a firearm then the criminal element would also be carrying. The concept of escilation.
It is not likely that anyone would walk through a school or an office in my city shooting at people because guns are farily difficult and expensive to get. That is also famous last words also.
I worry about a regular person carrying a firearm. Do they know how to use it. What if they miss or shoot someone by mistake. Take this incident what if someone pulled out their gun to shoot this guy on the rampage and somone else only saw part of what was going on and they shoot the guy stopping the rampaging guy.
What if the guy shoots and misses and hits a kid on the other side of the street ? Who is responsible for the child getting shot. How would that affect you if it was you who missed the target and hit a child.
You can say that you train with your firearm and you won't miss but I have witnessed a city cop empty a clip on a bear 10 feet away and miss every single round. I have seen a hunter shoot 4 rounds at a bull elk and wonder why he missed and not realize that his gun was not even loaded. He was in disbelief until we proved there was no brass on the ground. Adreneline can do strange things with your mind and body.
If a criminal knows a home owner has a gun and they have a gun instead of breaking in the front door why wouldn't they break into the bedroom and get the drop on the sleeping person. Maybe use some sort of other weapon to disable the gun owner.
We also recently had an incident in our province where a 4yr old loaded a .22 and shot through a bedroom door and almost killed his 1yr old sister. The dad had left the gun in his closet unlocked and the little boy found it.
More guns = more accidents, harder to kill yourself or anyone with an accidental discharge of a knife.
Couple years ago a guy was killed by a gun shot wound too his leg and he bled to death. He was riding a ski-doo with a hand gun and it went off and he shot himself in the leg and bled to death.
What about carrying a gun in a car everyday on your commute and getting into a vehicle accident and the gun go off and you may survive the car accident but a bullet through the lungs from your own gun wouldn't be a nice day.
Like I said just a bunch of rambling and rumlings in my head. It is a slow day at work.