Originally Posted by
Abe_Froman
I actually have never had dog trouble. And really I don't make decions based on fear. I suppose it would come down to a matter of values I want instilled in my daughter. I don't want her growing up in a place where the majority of people she knows think it is ok to have a tool expressly designed to kill human beings in their pocket.
Your personifying an inanimate object - (most) guns are designed to discharge centerfire cartridge rounds. What you choose to fire that cartridge round at and with what intent is up to the user, not the gun. This should be intuitive. Also, your premise is incorrect; some guns are designed for sport target matches, some for recreation, some for hunting, some for large volume discharge using small and low velocity rounds, etc, etc.
As far as the users, some use firearms for sport, some are collectors, some are tactical gear buffs, and out of those who do carry for defense some load with rounds that are designed to incapacitate vs kill. Additionally not all who carry choose to actually use the firearm...me for example: found a stranger on my rental property, at night, while in college yet instead of brandishing the .45 I kept inside I engaged the stranger with conversation and resolved the rather scary situation without using any of my firearms. I also held back firing my A4 in Iraq on an occasion when we were engaged from a distance, despite most of the Marines around me returning fire, because I could not obtain 100% positive identification from my vantage point. Yet folks like yourself choose to live in some irrational fear that a change in CCW law, in an already very conservative state where open carry has always been legal, that suddenly their life is in danger. Interesting but as stated irrational.
Do yourself and your daughter a favor and don't use her as an excuse to make life decisions based on your own personal agenda. Just call it for what it is, you're afraid of guns and would rather move out of this state than live here with our gun laws. Super. I'd even help you pack your bags, free of charge.