If you own a gun and you're not willing to practice with it, you might as well not have it in the first place. I don't think this kind of thing could happen to some of our commenters who are always talking about training with their weapons. I know I often accuse them of being paranoid, but worse yet is the unprepared gun owner who allows a criminal to take the gun away.
What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.
"If you own a gun and you're not willing to practice with it, you might as well not have it in the first place. "
ReplyDeleteAgreed.
Agreed to a point.
ReplyDeleteBut as you say, if we train to use it -- we are paranoid.
You want to make it more difficult for people to purchase, practice and carry their firearms -- isn't that a little hypocritical of you?
MikeB: "If you own a gun and you're not willing to practice with it, you might as well not have it in the first place. "
ReplyDeleteI wouldn’t say that. There is nothing wrong with owning a gun strictly as a keep sake, or sport shooting only. The distinction would be to not try to be a cowboy by intervening in a situation where his live was not on the line without that tactical practice.
Anonymous, what you're describing in me is not hypocrisy but contradiction. And I plead guilty. You guys can't win with me if you are in either of the extremes. Practicing like Robert Farago or even worse, like Xavier the Nurse, is too much. That's paranoia.
ReplyDeleteKeeping a gun for protection and not practicing at all and having it taken from you by a bad guy, is too far in the other extreme.
You need to be somewhere in the middle. Then I'd have no problem with it.