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Guns Galore and !?!?
I'm still reeling from the revelation that DT got "conjugal visits" with her dog. Wasn't aware they had that kind of relationship.
As for the original subject of this thread, my dad is a lifetime member of the NRA and owns several firearms. However, they were always stored in the back of a deep closet and generally only gotten out for hunting and practicing for hunting (clay pigeons, mostly). The exception was a pellet rifle and the target range he set up in our (long) basement family room. I was pretty good with the pellet rifle, but the one time I tried the shotgun on clay pigeons I was 1/25 and tired of the very loud and very hard-kicking gun. We were definitely taught safe practices with firearms, and my brother who went hunting had to take a hunters' safety course before getting a license.
It always seemed to me like there were two kinds of NRA members--ones like my dad where we ate everything he killed and the most visible evidence of hunting activity was the meat in the freezer, and the ones who collected lots of non-hunting weapons (handguns, semi-automatics, etc.), who hunted things that weren't good to eat (predators, chukars, etc.), and whose homes were decorated with lots of dead stuffed animals.
As far as guns for safety, my brother lived for a while in Kingston, Jamaica--not a particularly safe place. I don't know if he ever actually did it, but he said if he were ever to get a weapon for defense it would be a shotgun. No aiming required and there's no deterrent like that universally-recognizable <chuck-chuck> sound.
No guns in our household, and not likely ever to be, but I'll probably let Magnus go hunting with my dad if he wants to someday.
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