I used to leave my loaded, in a 3 number analog (rotating) combination lock. It took me all of 10 seconds to get up, from my bed, run over to the safe, stoop down, and take out my gun. If the gun was unloaded, it would've taken another second to slap a magazine in and rack the slide. And that's using a dial safe. They have safes with digital combination pads nowadays that would make it even quicker.Now based on the first answer I proposed, lets say you responsible gun owners have a lock on your UNLOADED gun. Your sleeping in your 'secure' house, and awake to an intruder. You go get your gun, load it, and unlock it. By the time you did this, you should pretty much have been killed by the intruder, cause I am willing to bet that it takes a hot minute to prepare a 'safe' gun.
Some are, some aren't. Welcome to life. Why punish the responsible law abiding ones for something the criminals and idiots are doing?
I own guns because its a hobby just like anything else. My guns have never been so much as pointed at another individual. They're as harmless as my TV.
My guns ARE locked in a safe. Let me worry about them and the possibility of an intruder breaking into my house. Thanks.
i never said it was all the gun's problem.
i do see a correlation between gun owners and making issues into black or white, group elitism, excessive aggression, and ego issues.
to each his own.
You see "ego" issues because dumb liberal twats who know nothing about guns want to take our property away from us...
Worry about your fucking household, and I'll worry about mine. Comprende?
if someone found my yoyo or pogo stick they couldn't point and shoot to end someone's life
so i think trying to equate all hobbies is a pointless affair.
That's because you're an idiot. Its not a matter of ego or elitism. Its a matter of personal freedoms, and for many in the u.s. because they feel it is their duty. Whether you think that way or not is totally irrelevant.
liberal? i'm not even political, i don't fucking vote.
do you or did you build model cars/planes/trucks? collect them?
Me too, but with guns. I have about 4 that are black powder, came in a kit and required assembly and detailing, but they still fire. Hobbies differ from person to person.
so should we be free to have any property in our house that we like?
at what point do you draw the line? only at guns but no further?
Surprise surprise...
hobbies differ from person to person but not all hobbies can be equated. if i liked to build pipe bombs on the side, i would have been expelled from school.
hobbies differ from person to person but not all hobbies can be equated. if i liked to build pipe bombs on the side, i would have been expelled from school.
we should be told what we can and can't have? at what point do you draw the line? at guns but no further?
pipe bombs have one purpose, anti-personell device. there is no other purpose for a pipebomb.
guns have no purpose except to shoot at things.
rofl
I love how just 5 minutes ago you blasted me for comparing knives to guns, but now you're doing the same thing and comparing explosives to firearms...
Good job.
i'm pointing out the fact that it's a gray area and your holier-than-thou attitude is making you incapable of seeing that.