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| Authored by: Ian Al on Sunday, December 23 2012 @ 11:04 AM EST |
I assume the total cost per deer shot for the average rifle owner is
astonishingly high when travel, accommodation and refreshment costs are
included.
I conclude that hunting and killing things in the US and the
UK is for sport and not for food.
I see target shooting as a sport,
including with bow and arrows. Killing animals for fun is not sport. Culling
wild life should be done by professionals and as part of a wild life management
or public protection programme.
Is the sort of person who wishes to own
and fire an assault rifle a suitable person to be licensed? What is that
person's true state of mind? Does it indicate a proclivity for murder by
firearm?
What are the comparative statistics for people who own guns
who,
have accidentally shot family members or neighbours,
have been
shot by armed intruders in spite of hand-gun ownership,
have shot unarmed
intruders (if your first thought is that it serves them right, give it more
consideration),
own, but have never had legal cause to use a hand-gun
against people or animals.
Let's see how those numbers relate to the
total of licensed gun ownership and what the ratio is between the total and the
number of people who have legally shot an armed intruder with a licensed
firearm.
How many owners of guns or rifles do so as part of a
government militia in order to protect the country?
Banning guns
outright except for regulated target shooting would solve nothing in the US.
Gunmen would still obtain guns even if licensing was withdrawn and non-target
shooting was banned as a sport and the weapons steadily put beyond use. Gun
ownership has got completely out of hand in the US.
However, I don't
see gun ownership in the US as supported by the Constitution. That requires
blinkered reading. If the true statistics were known of accidental shootings,
illegal shootings and the actual protection against armed intruders, I think
rational Americans would ban gun ownership.
The present gun ownership
culture is from tradition and failure to read the Constitution. Bear baiting,
cock fighting and slavery used to be traditions. Rational laws outlaw them. Fear
of armed intruders is genuine and justified. However, there is no rational, fact
based argument for gun ownership. For most, it is perceived rather than actual
protection. Money would be better spent on intruder protection and taking more
care over security of the home.
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Regards
Ian Al
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