[Cerek the Barbaric]

Originally posted by Faceman: And after all that it still stands up, that guns are the most effective personal killing tool nowadays. Again I emphazise: I'm all for self-defense. If somebody needs a gun for protection he should have one. But I think one should be aware of the great responsibility one carries with that. If you buy a tool for killing you acknowledge the fact that someday you may have to kill somebody with it. This may be pragmatically cynical but if you decide for having a gun you should have the stomach to say: "I will shoot if you break into my house" instead of "I use the gun for fun, it's nothing else but a fun tool like a car" because it isn't.

And I emphasize again that I bought my guns because they ARE a "fun tool" (like a car). I really enjoy target shooting. And while it would be nice to use my guns for self-defense in case of an intruder, since my guns are unloaded AND kept in separate cases, it will be extremely impractical for me to take them out of their case, retrieve the ammo, load them, and THEN use them. The intruder will have already shot or attacked me LONG before I come anywhere close to finishing that sequence of events....so my guns are NOT very practical for self-defense under current conditions.

The only reason I even keep them is because I DO enjoy shooting them when time permits (which is a rare occasion with 3 young boys).