well, to me guns just suck.
i once read that owning a gun gives more opportunity for an accident to happen (your kid killing the neighbour, him/herself,...), than u ever getting the chance to kill a burglar.
my dad always had a gun (minority in belgium) and as a young child it worked like magnetism on me. i loved walking around with it in the house or garden feeling way too cool (without my dad knowing of course, he'd kick my arse). i even fired a couple of rounds to some imaginary targets in the garden. i think the chance of killing someone at those instances was alot higher than my dad ever killing a mug.
one day i came home late from the pub, snuk upstairs to my room. my dad must have thought he heard a burglar, because sure enough 5 secs later he stoud there waving his rifle in my face.
for the record, my parental house was once broken into. where the burglar got noticed the moment he was fleeing away. he must have gotten scared, for he fleed before steeling anything. my dad ran after the burglar, shooting away. i am happy he didn't get the burglar. wouldn't have been a problem with our police, they would even change evidence so that it wouldn't seem as if u shot the burglar in the back.
different opinions, but i am glad that in belgium you don't have to fear too much that alot of ppl on the street are armed. because accidents do happen, and crazy ppl exist in large quantities , no need to make it too easy.
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