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Originally Posted by jwheel69
I am a citizen of the United States and I have never owned a gun nor do I want one.
Joe Wheelock
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thanks very much for your first-hand input Joe. I think that many people around the world are genuinely concerned that there is such a wide dichotomy of views in the US on the need for guns in a modern civilized society.
For example, I find it incomprehensible that some of my daughter's warm and caring friends in Texas think that it is normal that they should be armed and that the person shopping next to them in the supermarket could be carrying a deadly weapon. And that they think it is their parental duty to teach their children how to shoot to kill another person. There is something going on here that I simply do not understand. The inability of the organisers of the Republican convention to ban AR15s in the precinct - when they did ban tennis balls - just put the issue in perspective.
regards Ray