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Originally Posted by BallisticWookie
A power issue over what ?? What power am I supposed to be feeling holding a piece a metal ?? Have you ever held and fired a weapon before ?? I doubt it, so I really doubt you understand what you are talking about. Yes they are an instrument of death, but our purpose is not to dish out death and destruction. We are SPORTING shooters, we dont kill anything, we shoot paper targets which dont represent anything living, just a round circle with numbers on it.
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I have fired a gun on a numrous occasions, most of which were during my time in the RAF. :) I know
you don't kill anything, but at the end of the day all guns are designed to kill and the majority are used to follow up on that.
[quote:97fde]I care that a sport I am involved in is being destroyed by anti gun lobbyists who dont have the slightest fucking clue what they are talking about when they are directing insults toward the responsible gun owners. We arent hurting anyone, we mind our own business, we shoot in highly regulated and monitered environments, there are always range and safety officers present (my Father is a range officer) and we all know the dangers that are present when shooting. We are responsible, we take care of visitors who come along and watch, we offer them our weapons to shoot briefly (while watching them like hawks) and we make it clear that guns are deadly and we make no exceptions to that.[/quote:97fde]
Except the lax control allows the guns to fall into not-so-responsible hands. As I said, I don't care what happens to your sport if control saves just one life.
[quote:97fde]If you dont like the fact that we shoot guns for fun and relaxation, then sorry, no offence, but I dont care either. What I dont get is that you play games that represent realistically (in the loosest sense) what guns can do, and you come on here spouting crap about how bad and dangerous they are and that you cant stand them. [/quote:97fde]
Video games are completely different. For example, I play Europa Universalis and will send off colonists to parts of the world to expand my Empire (or go to war to do so). Now I don't support the historical action that occurred but it is a game, very simply put.
[quote:97fde]If you dont like guns, dont have anything to do with them and dont play anything that allows you to shoot people, because as far as I am concerned, thats pretty damn hypocritical on your part.[/quote:97fde]
If you don't get the difference between video games and real life then I can't help you. In fact I find it scary that you're confusing the two.