Folks in military preserve my freedom by serving while I am not:) They volunteer do that rather unfree job while I get to live free and without the draft (for now). Other than that, I can't think of much freedom preservation via dodging munitions since WWII. Conquerors aren't too common these days (even we don't seem to plan to annex Iraq).
Firearms aren't tools useful for any other purpose than killing. Since we don't kill our own food now (except.000000001% of the population), we've got little excuse for killing. Before you say that there are people who want to kill us, and *thats* why we need guns, remember your 1st grade logic fallacies - two wrongs don't make a right. Acting in "self-defense" doesn't make an action morally defensible.
Bah, that gun nonsense again. Folks rob people with knives in Japan (read http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/ every now and then). Bow and arrow are weapons too, but they aren't as "sexy" to blather on about in this country. Morally destitute people (and folks in desperate situations--real or imagined) kill others with whatever device will function most appropriately at the time. Guns are a really stupid choice--noisy, lots of bad laws, highly traceable, and made of ferromagnetic metal that sets off detectors. Household poisons, common gardening tools, automobiles and fires started with food products instead of traditional accelerants are all much easier to get away with (I worked for a defense attorney; criminals get caught because they're stupid). The 9/11 terrorists seemed to know this.
The folks I know who have guns shoot food and targets made to look like food. I get a garbage bag of venison every year out of it...btw, I don't live in the "country". I'm in an urban area.
If you want your child to visit NRA sites, uncheck the weapons box. Don't blow smoke.
That is precisely my problem with this. I would like to be able to block websites that encourage violence, sell weapons and provide information on improvised munitions. I certainly would not block the NRA who provides gun safety information, hunting links and political viewpoints.
As a parent I do not want my child ignorant of the issues, nor do I want my children to be misinformed about gun safety should they come into contact with a firearm. As a gun owner, I feel that my children have no more business with my rifles than with my chainsaw, but that does not stop me from educating them in the dangers and potential safe uses (by adults and properly trained and supervised adolescents) of a firearm.
Btw, even if you don't own firearms and don't want to, why would you want your children deprived of safety knowledge anyhow? What do you think the NRA website/NRA courses/Hunting and Shooting clubs actually teach?
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Folks in military preserve my freedom by serving while I am not :) They volunteer do that rather unfree job while I get to live free and without the draft (for now). Other than that, I can't think of much freedom preservation via dodging munitions since WWII. Conquerors aren't too common these days (even we don't seem to plan to annex Iraq).
Bah, that gun nonsense again. Folks rob people with knives in Japan (read http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/ every now and then). Bow and arrow are weapons too, but they aren't as "sexy" to blather on about in this country. Morally destitute people (and folks in desperate situations--real or imagined) kill others with whatever device will function most appropriately at the time. Guns are a really stupid choice--noisy, lots of bad laws, highly traceable, and made of ferromagnetic metal that sets off detectors. Household poisons, common gardening tools, automobiles and fires started with food products instead of traditional accelerants are all much easier to get away with (I worked for a defense attorney; criminals get caught because they're stupid). The 9/11 terrorists seemed to know this. The folks I know who have guns shoot food and targets made to look like food. I get a garbage bag of venison every year out of it...btw, I don't live in the "country". I'm in an urban area.
As a parent I do not want my child ignorant of the issues, nor do I want my children to be misinformed about gun safety should they come into contact with a firearm. As a gun owner, I feel that my children have no more business with my rifles than with my chainsaw, but that does not stop me from educating them in the dangers and potential safe uses (by adults and properly trained and supervised adolescents) of a firearm.
Btw, even if you don't own firearms and don't want to, why would you want your children deprived of safety knowledge anyhow? What do you think the NRA website/NRA courses/Hunting and Shooting clubs actually teach?