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When I lived in the Peace everyone had guns. They owned more than one and different types.Sometimes they used them for hunting mostly they used their guns to try and kill coyotes or bears who were after their livestock.
I’ve shot a gun several times, against my wishes. One of my friends insisted I learn to shoot skeets. I was hopeless prematurly hitting the trigger everytime.
These people grow up with guns. They use them responsibly, ie storing them in locked cabinets seperatly from the ammunition. Gun regulation pissed them off royally.

Melanie

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Addendum: Despite being in the closet, ammo was locked away in the basement.

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A friend of mine is a hobby handgun shooter, he owns a couple of handguns (.22 and 9mm) and some “small ammo” rifles (if that’s even the correct term for a .22 rifle). He’s a responsible firearms owner, and the range he took me to for fun one day has a strict “no human targets” policy - meaning no paper targets that resemble people - animals and abstract targets only.

Ironically, we all had to stop shooting for about 20 minutes while a deer wandered out of the surrounding woods and grazed on the range for a bit.

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I know two people that own a gun. One is an RCMP officer, and the other is the same person Jen mentioned above.

I would never consider owning a gun, or living with anyone who owned a gun, or spending significant time with anyone who was carrying a gun.

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My mom owns an old rifle from when she was a kid — they grew up on a farm, it was just another implement required for their operation. I believe said gun is in the crawlspace and I know she doesn’t own any ammo for it. She considered registering it when the whole gun registry thing came up, but figured hell, she hasn’t even thought of the thing in years, she’d just leave it be. If it still worked, I’d be amazed.

When my uncle stayed with us about 10 years ago, just after his marriage ended, he kept a gun in the house. I didn’t like it much, but I was 15 and had no say in the matter. :) He’s another one of those rural people — until he moved in with us, he’d lived in Ft. St. John for the past 30-odd years.

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I was born and raised in rural Texas and owned/fired a variety of firearms. They were necessary on a ranch, for both self-protection and for mercy (dying, suffering animals and the like.)

I remember being confused when I was in elementary or jr. high because I heard some radio reporter talking about a kid who brought a gun to school. He said that it was the worst thing that could happen in the world. Looking out my car window as we drove up to the school, I saw no less than ten, occupied gun racks in the back of trucks. As far as know, no one ever killed anyone with those guns. Two people in my class were murdered — one was beaten with a stick and one was run over by a truck that had a loaded gun resting in its rack (go figure.)

In regards to people being uncomfortable around guns, I have the following opinion: if the person is uncomfortable having a gun in the house or being around people with guns, it means that they or the people around them are not properly trained. More over, as a responsible gun owner, you should respect that, and take the appropriate actions to remove firearms from their vicinity to make them comfortable and to keep everyone safe.

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My grandfather owned guns. They sat in a visible rack in the den, and the ammo was hidden off somewhere. He lived on a farm and used the guns for hunting purposes and training his hunting dogs to become accustomed to the sounds of guns.

Through my entire childhood I never had the slightest interest in touching those guns. On the other hand I always snuck some playtime with his sword. It was a ceremonial naval sword.

The only time he ever asked me to use a gun was when he handed me a .22 loaded with blanks and asked me to go out back and fire off a few rounds at some dogs that were harassing one of his dogs that was in heat. I remember that I held the gun like Sonny Crocket from Miami Vice and that the trigger was harder to pull than I thought. My grandfather chided me for thinking Hollywood knew anything about firing guns. After having seen what guns do to some of the animals my grandfather shot, I lost any minute interest that I might have held for firearms. Ironically, I LOVE military video games and freak my friend out by being able to tell what gun is being fired without needing to see it.

I guess I’m saying, I’m only a gun nut in make-believe-land. :)

P.S. That image of you staring at me while I preview this comment is even more disturbing.

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I noticed that the Google ads on your site are now displaying “Canadian Firearms License” and “Gun Dealer’s License Kit”. Computers “think” in the most amusing ways.

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