There are so many things I want to say on this subject, I am not sure where to start. I began shooting at about age 6, began killing animals about age 12. I grew up in this "tradition"......and I married into it.I even taught Hunter Saftey for several years. After about 20 years of marrige, I decided I did not like killing things and would not do it. I still catch crap from a lot of my family because of my decision. (I do kill house flies and mosquitos, but not spiders). The rest of my family still does hunt, but I cannot even help butcher and wrap in spite of the fact that I do eat meat, and have been on a kill floor.
I do not want to see all guns taken away from all Americans; I do not want to see our Constitution amended, but neither can I condone babies killing babies. I really think that this happens out of both ignorance and stupidity, which are not the same thing.

There have always been guns in my house, whether it was my parents house or mine and my husbands'. We have tried to educate our children about guns,and DEATH, but I am not sure we have made much headway against popular culture.
Our son (the son of a cop) is now a convicted felon.His father collaborated to buy him a handgun, Glock .40 ca., that I knew nothing about. He carried it in his car, un-be-knost to either of us. One night about a year ago, someone threw something at his car, and he stopped and said "What the Fock was that?" He was told "None of your ******* business, get out of here" . The speaker, along with 5 of his friends, then took off their coats, and started for the car. Our son pulled out the gun we did not know he had in his car, and threatened them with it. One of the boys tried to grab the gun and turn it back, with the result being that the gun went off. NO ONE was hurt, except the car, but our son was charged with 1) Reckless endagerment,(High Misdemeanor); sentence, 12 mos in jail, he served 8 mos, and 2) Possesion of a firearm to commit a crime, a felony; punishment--5 years of Supervised Probation.Also, a $1,000 fine. Probation only because he had served 8 mos in jail for the High Misdemeanor. Yes, he was in the wrong, he should have driven away, but still he was only trying to protect his own property. The whole county thinks he was over punished, but what if someone had died?
He was released from jail last Thanksgiving, and the time he served helped him to realize that what he did was very wrong, and he cannot make it right; but also helped him realize that apparently one is not allowed to protect ones-self. He is extremely bitter about the whole system now. This is a Cop's kid, so don't try to tell me that those on the "Inside" get a better deal.
I guess the upshot of all this is that I just cannot decide about guns. (Off my rant now)