Recently my husband told me that he would like to start keeping a gun in the house for protection. I told him, I will not live in a house with a gun. I don’t like guns and think that there are already too many of them in the world today. It seems like every time you turn around there is another accidental shooting, kids shooting kids, someone cleaning their gun and it accidentally going off and stuff like that. We live in a house with four kids and I could never sleep at night thinking that the possibility exists that one of them could accidentally or purposely have access to a gun.
I don’t believe that owning a gun makes you any safer than not owning one does. I think if anything quite the opposite is true. When you own a gun, and you hear a noise at night and get frightened, what is the first thing that you will do…grab that gun. You won’t mean to hurt anyone, but what if the noise you hear is one of the kids or your spouse, you might pull the trigger out of fear and hurt someone totally by accident.
I don’t believe in the right to bear arms, I think that the more guns that are out there, the better the chance that they could fall into the wrong hands. I won’t fill the world with anymore violence than is necessary and I won’t contribute to the downfall of our society. I don’t allow my kids to play with guns. I think that playing with them, just allows them to become numb to the harm that can be done with one of these things. I didn’t even allow brightly colored water guns until very recently. I don’t allow games that require shooting at people. I don’t like violence and I don’t ever want my kids to become numb to it, especially the boys. I have had many an argument with my 12 year old son about paintball guns and pellet guns and bb guns. I don’t care how many of his friends have guns to play with, I won’t allow it. I don’t want them to accidentally get an eye taken out by these “toys”. My nine year old actually has friends who own their own real guns already. I try to explain to my kids that this is not acceptable in my mind, but they hunt. Now my oldest son says that he wants to hunt. I don’t really believe in hunting and don’t even really like to eat meat. I think that mostly it is inhumane to treat any of God’s creatures this way. I know I am in the minority on this one…but that’s just me.
Posted on Monday, April 28, 2008 9:52 AM by Carol Ann