(02-15-2018, 07:13 PM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(02-15-2018, 06:38 PM)HandsomeRob86 Wrote: People who don't own guns really don't understand this in my experience. They think that gun owners pretty much like guns cause they are 'cool' or something like that. Nonsense. The only reason I have a gun is protection. Not to say it isn't fun to go to a range and shoot, but I wouldn't have one just for that purpose.

That’s not entirely true. There are people on this very board who have well over 10+ guns. Do they need all 10 for protection? Protection from what?

There are plenty of gun owners who have them because they’re cool.

They may have more than 1 gun for fun, but the fundamental reason they have guns at all, and why they would not give up all their guns is protection. Many gun owners admit they have 'so many guns I can't use them all,' but I haven't met one of them who didn't at least start buying guns for protection. Or to rephrase for clarity, if you own more then one gun and you badly need money you would probably sell most of them, but I haven't met any gun owner who would be willing to go back to having NO guns cause they view it as a safety issue.

Gun owners do not view all their guns as just 'toys' it goes deeper than that.

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