That\u2019s really how it pans out. I don\u2019t think I could shoot a deer with a rifle. I do t tho k I could shop and kill a man. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I got in fights as a kid. I didn\u2019t win any of them. I got picked on and I didn\u2019t run, just got the shit kicked out of me. Okay maybe one – I got tagged in the temple but got in a few gut shots and ended it – he was a fat kid and a dick. I struggled to hit a guy in the face. It was hard to do it. I spazzed out at times and got angry. But the key problem was hesitation. It\u2019s just not in me. So I don\u2019t have a gun and so if a criminal tried to rob my house wth one I wouldn\u2019t be able to shoot them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So gun control is an issue for me. I believe in it. This doesn\u2019t come lightly. I like shooting, was damn good at riflery as a a young man, enjoy firing a hand gun. But I can\u2019t shoot a man and believe in order. I want soldiers and police to have them, I trust them, love my country and constitution. I believe in freedom but wouldn\u2019t have been comfortable in the 1860\u2019s in the Wild West. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Again this doesn\u2019t come lightly, I grew up in Maryland, in the county. My friends had guns and rifles – they hunted. One of my best friends caught a criminal at gunpoint (rifle really – I think it was a 30-06). And I grew up outside of Baltimore and know what bad people with guns can do. To be in Georgia and see the boys hunting with ARs just disappoints me and to see them considering this as protection just scares me. It\u2019s ridiculous and frankly stupid. I could get shot for that but so be it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I won\u2019t fire back. And that\u2019s the problem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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