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I voted for guns but I'm not passionate about it.
I grew up with guns, and got into smallbore rifle competition during my teens. My brother was into pistol competition, and we both had a play on the black powder club. All good sport, good lessons and good experience.
I haven't had a gun since I was 18 when I left home. It was about this time that the earliest licencing started and it was simply too hard to mess about with guns living in the city for 6 months of the years and moving out to the country for the other six months (I did my engineering degree by a sandwich course).
No doubt guns need to be controlled, secure and handled sensibly.
I'm not in favour of disarming the populous... it just means that the onlympeople with guns will be the military, the Police and crooks - because they will still have them!
I have spent the last 20 years or so in rescue, and like JohnG have seen the results of gun abuse. It is not to be taken lightly.
They have their place, it's a matter of keeping them there!
Al.
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