Guns: Should ordinary citizens have them?

[Cato]

For self-defense and recreation, sure.

[ikki]

In this context, read: 'Don't run around a burning building with an extinguisher!'

He who points at the mood didnt create it

The wise bird lands near water

and

To get a yule tree, it must first be chopped down

[BlasphemousDeception]

The wise bird lands near water

No way,dude!

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7sAanq22BA&feature=related[/YOUTUBE]

[SwordoftheVistula]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/...n5949873.shtml

Oklahoma resident Donna Jackson faced a life or death situation when an intruder tried to break into her rural-area home last Friday.

Home alone, but armed with a shotgun, 57-year-old Jackson called 911 and begged for help, but police couldnt get there before the man was able to break through a glass door with a chair and patio table.

Jackson, who stayed on the phone with the 911 dispatcher, can be heard in the call saying, "I don't want to have to kill this man, but I'll kill him graveyard dead, ma'am."

When the intruder broke through the door, Jackson dropped the phone. A minute later, Jackson was forced to shoot, and the suspect, Billy Riley, 53, was killed. According to the local district attorney's office, Jackson won't be charged with a crime. During the call, the 911 operator told Jackson it was legal for her to defend her home.

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[Aredhel]

Only for self-defense, but the gun possesion should be regulated by government.

[Smaland]

We should never forget Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto’s reply when he was asked why the Japanese did not attack California’s coast after the Pearl Harbor attack. Yamamoto replied, “in America there is a gun behind every blade of grass.”

from a letter to the Lewiston (Maine) Sun Journal by Robert Acheson of 7 April 2013