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"iBoaterer" wrote in message
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On Sat, 18 May 2013 22:31:31 -0700, jps wrote:

In video uploaded to YouTube on Saturday, Arthur Kellermann of the
RAND Corporation said that keeping a gun in your home was a bad way
to
protect your family.

If you don't want one, don't buy one but that does not mean you have
the right to preach to others.
I can make the same case for not owning a car, a swimming pool, a
plethora of household chemicals, certain pets or even a BOAT.

Preaching?? I take it you haven't been keeping up the rants from the
NRA
and gun nuts?? THEY are the ones preaching.

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I'll be 64 years old this year. I can't recall any gun manufacturer,
dealer, individual, the NRA .... or *anyone* ever approaching or
encouraging me to buy or own a gun or to contact me directly with any
pro-gun lobbying for any reason.

It was only fairly recently (within the past 3 years) that I became
interested in owning a gun, so I went through the permit process.
Since getting a permit I have become aware of how many normal, well
adjusted people from all walks of life and educational backgrounds
who own guns and are often armed in public via concealed carry.
Nothing new. I just had never had the interest before to be aware of
this.

Seems to me that the "preaching" doesn't come from gun nuts,
manufacturers, dealers or the NRA. It's when others start
"preaching" their anti-gun rhetoric and try to impose restrictions on
something that they probably don't own or want that you start hearing
from the pro gun people and organizations.