gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Norton)
Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2004-10-08 02:17 pm

More meme stuff, kind of interesting.

Taken from [livejournal.com profile] fimbrethil, who got it from [livejournal.com profile] noelfigart

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[identity profile] cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com 2004-10-09 11:33 am (UTC)(link)
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Here's the irony, though: I've never handled a gun in my life. When I was younger, before I understood the Second Amendment's purpose and context, I had the standard liberal attitude about gun control: "Guns bad, let's get rid of as many as we can." Even now, it's all about other people's rights to bear arms.

Guns scare me a little - the potential for mishap, the responsibility involved in carrying a potentially deadly weapon. I'd rather not have that. (I'm aware that this choice may mean that someday I wind up on the other end of one, being threatened/coerced or worse. So be it.)

One consequence of this is that I have immense respect for all the men and women who, by serving as military or police, make bearing arms a choice/luxury for me.