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DaveinGermany · 03-06-2010, 22:41

The whole thing about Guns is that they are used to kill, as a youngster I often went with my father shooting, even my younger Brother & Sister tried it out. We went "Hunting" for pigeons, rabbits & other game dependent on the season. At no time would I or any of my family ever of considered using said weapon on another human being. My father was licensed & we had permission from the land owners. That was our reason for having weapons in the house & on a few occasions the police came to our house to check on our storage & security, no Problems.

As Retlaw stated it's not the Weapon itself it's the user, far more useful than the plods knocking on the door asking to see the licence or the storage arrangements would be for the shooter to submit to a medical both physical & mental to ascertain their suitability to posses & use firearms. The registered users are always the easy option, but having said all that, who will control & enforce such a ruling (venturing into human rights & personal freedoms).

I spent a few years in HM forces where I was obliged to carry a weapon & if the situation decreed I was expected to use it to "Kill another Human being" believe me this was definitely not on my list of things to do when I joined but it was expected should needs arise. I was fortunate enough never to have to pull the trigger, but on occasion I had need to site down a barrel on a living, breathing, person, not pleasant. Does this then make me into a raging murdering psychopath, NO.

The reason why ? Because of my mental balance, my moral compass my understanding of what is right & wrong & what is acceptable or not. These people who do such things are missing in part some of the above if not all of the above & that is why we see the terrible cases like this all to often. So before the Witch hunt on gun owners & demanding all guns be banned, we have to get to the root of the problem first.

It's not the weapon that is just a construct of metal & wood, it is the unstable user that causes the problems, these are the things that need dealing with.

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DaveinGermany a multieloquent Mule Xeno Tactic Champion! Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Back in Bramsche, Germany Posts: 9,023 Blog Entries: 76 Liked: 4664 times Rep Power: 905668	Re: Cumbria Shootings The whole thing about Guns is that they are used to kill, as a youngster I often went with my father shooting, even my younger Brother & Sister tried it out. We went "Hunting" for pigeons, rabbits & other game dependent on the season. At no time would I or any of my family ever of considered using said weapon on another human being. My father was licensed & we had permission from the land owners. That was our reason for having weapons in the house & on a few occasions the police came to our house to check on our storage & security, no Problems. As Retlaw stated it's not the Weapon itself it's the user, far more useful than the plods knocking on the door asking to see the licence or the storage arrangements would be for the shooter to submit to a medical both physical & mental to ascertain their suitability to posses & use firearms. The registered users are always the easy option, but having said all that, who will control & enforce such a ruling (venturing into human rights & personal freedoms). I spent a few years in HM forces where I was obliged to carry a weapon & if the situation decreed I was expected to use it to "Kill another Human being" believe me this was definitely not on my list of things to do when I joined but it was expected should needs arise. I was fortunate enough never to have to pull the trigger, but on occasion I had need to site down a barrel on a living, breathing, person, not pleasant. Does this then make me into a raging murdering psychopath, NO. The reason why ? Because of my mental balance, my moral compass my understanding of what is right & wrong & what is acceptable or not. These people who do such things are missing in part some of the above if not all of the above & that is why we see the terrible cases like this all to often. So before the Witch hunt on gun owners & demanding all guns be banned, we have to get to the root of the problem first. It's not the weapon that is just a construct of metal & wood, it is the unstable user that causes the problems, these are the things that need dealing with.