Originally Posted by USViking

No, and I have never owned a gun either.

I specifically recall the last time I ever carried a gun.

It was around Thanksgiving, 1965 or 1966.

I was visiting friends in a rural cabin on a frozen lake
in New Hampshire.

It was so remore we could play with shotguns,
firing them over the ice, and no neighbors were
near enough to complain.

Then we went deer hunting, and it was tremendously
exciting even though all we saw were deer tracks
and droppings.

Lucky no one else was around because I at least
got trigger happy.

I fired only once, but only because I wanted to
kill something.

I maimed a squirrel, and I can still see it hobbling
away wounded to die. That took away forever
my desire to hunt, although I am in favor of
responsible hunting.

As far as gun law goes, there are almost as many
privately owned guns in the US as there are people,
so any attempt to eliminate private possession is
ipso facto bound to fail.

I still think we should continue to make it illegal for
violent criminals to own guns, but anyone who wants
a gun badly enough is always going to be able to get one,
and we are going to have to live with it.