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Originally posted by barely_legal
That's stupid. Someone who is an avid collector and owns multiple guns for hunting is far more likely to keep the guns unloaded and locked up than a person who owns only one gun for "personal protection". Hunters are far more likely to have taken a gun safety class than casual owners of guns. I think most states even require hunters to take gun safety classes before they can get a license.
There is nothing wrong with owning any amount of guns, as long as they are stored safely, especially in a house where kids are or may be.
edited to add that I'm talking about a reasonable amount of guns, not a freaking arsenal like at Waco, okay? And I didn't really mean to implicate the whole "right to bear arms" issue, I just meant that it's stupid to say that it's ok to own one gun but bad to own multiple guns.
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You mean it is ignorant to say that it's ok to own one gun and bad to own multiple guns?
I suspect your conclusion is faulty. I would hazard a guess that a city slicker who buys a gun for protection is the one who takes the safety class (at the behest of the spouse who did not want the gun in the first place) than some country bumpkin who has a few guns to go hunting with. Statistics please?
