3 REASONS I WENT FROM BEING A GUN NUT TO SUPPORTING GUN CONTROL (not me

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1. Thanks.

We live very Rural, and own several guns....the kind you would find on your grandfather's farm.
Like you, I shoot and clean them once a year. My wife also stays competent at using these.
It rarely happens, but occasionally, we have to use them to protect our pets, stock, and ourselves.

We don't "display" them, keep them hidden but readily accessible (no kids), and never "show" them to visitors.
We DO want our neighbors in this valley to know we are armed, and the yearly practice in our back yard range does this nicely.
We don't hunt because we aren't hungry, but will do so if we have to,
and will have the tools and the skill to use them.

We own NO assault rifles, no extended magazines, or other penis extenders.

We will keep: one 12 ga pump Shotgun with a 2 shot tube magazine
one old 30-30 lever action with a 5 shot tube magazine
one .22 semi rifle tube magazine (I wish it was bolt action)

one revolver, .357, carried in our vehicle at the request of the local constable.
As a rural Firefighter and a member of Search & Rescue, we are called when there is injured wildlife or domestic cattle on the roads, and often have to end their misery.
Not something either of us enjoy.

I also own a table saw, a band saw, a sander, a drill, a miter saw, a router, and a bunch of hand tools.
We have pressure cookers for canning in the Fall too, and mowers to keep the weeds at bay.
We have shovels, rakes, picks, axes, hatchets, mauls, splitting wedges, sledge hammers, post drivers, and chain saws too.

All of the above are dangerous, can easily kill a person,
and they are all tools.
I can't imagine living out here without any of the above.