Responsible Gun Owners Acting Responsibly

[Nice Squirrel]

I'd like to take a look at the responsible gun owners that stop crime with their guns.

http://www.kare11.com/news/crime/police-man-shot-neighbor-over-broken-lawnmower/295124125

northeast Minneapolis man is charged with murder after police say he shot his neighbor during a feud over a broken lawnmower.
Edward Frank Holzinger faces a 40-year sentence if he is convicted of second degree murder.

Feel free to document and nominate other responsible gun owners.

 

[DBT]

America is special case when it comes to 'responsible' gun ownership. The term has an entirely different meaning in Australia, and probably in most other western nations.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Do you think he did this because of his culture or his race?

 

[DBT]

Do you think he did this because of his culture or his race?

Doesn't the US have a recognised gun culture?

''For many Americans, the gun represents the heart of their nation’s foundation and identity, a symbol of their freedom.

The right to keep and bear arms” from the Second Amendment of the US Constitution is the regular defence of current gun laws.''

 

[Nice Squirrel]

Do you think he did this because of his culture or his race?

Well it's the other guy's fault for not carrying a gun.

 

[Jarhyn]

And all this just keeps reinforcing my point of view that humans shouldn't be making it easier for them to kill each other without some survival-centric purpose also being filled by the presence or availability of the tool.

Hammers drive nails and break large blocks of concrete. Guns do not.
Knives cut cloth, leather, twine and meat. Guns do not.
Axes cut down trees, are useful for removing stumps, etc. Guns are not.

Guns have one best purpose outside of 'play' and that is *damaging living tissue*. If you do not have a reasonable need to damage living tissue of some critter, either to put food on your table or to serve the commission of societyto serve and protect it, you shouldn't have one. Get a toy instead if you want to play games.

The reasons for this are many, but foremost is that people are prone to violent outbursts, and the more dangerous someone is when that happens, the greater the damage is when it happens.

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

Sounds like the other guy was a dick. Maybe the world is a better place with him dead.

Brown's niece told police that she and other family members were grilling out in Brown's back yard when he shouted to Holzinger, sarcastically asking him if he wanted to come over for a hamburger. Holzinger reportedly shouted for Brown to "come over and find out." Family members tried to calm him down, but Brown barged over to Holzinger's home, and gunshots soon rang out. She says while trying to save her uncle Holzinger came out of his house and said “He deserved it; He called me a pedophile; I know I’m going to jail and I don’t care.”

When questioned by investigators Holzinger told them that he and Brown had been in a running argument over the past week, and that Brown "wouldn't leave it alone." He reportedly admitted to the shooting.

 

[Shadowy Man]

I've wondered about an apparent contradiction when it comes to responsible gun ownership. It is sometimes said that a responsible gun owner keeps their gun unloaded and locked in a box when they're home. However, most people seem to claim that they own a gun for personal protection of their home. If you need it against an intruder wouldn't you need it loaded and handy?

 

[Jarhyn]

I've wondered about an apparent contradiction when it comes to responsible gun ownership. It is sometimes said that a responsible gun owner keeps their gun unloaded and locked in a box when they're home. However, most people seem to claim that they own a gun for personal protection of their home. If you need it against an intruder wouldn't you need it loaded and handy?

This is because there is an actual contradictory mindset between the rationalization for owning a gun and the actual purpose for owning it.

Either you own a gun and have it ready to kill someone, and you are good enough at that that it means you are a monster just as bad as them, or you own a gun in a big locked box and it's really just a fancy toy that you play ridiculous and dangerous games with.

In the mean time we consider other, much more fun drug dispensers than guns, like THC and LSD to be unthinkably evil.

Go figure.