Want.

Lifelong anti-gun libtard here.

I think guns are primarily for people who fear. I think fear is the primary motivator for firearm ownership. I would like to live in a society where fear doesn’t push people to own firearms. That is not our reality. That is not the society we live in.

There are masked, unqualified paramilitary federal goons entering our communities and harassing and assaulting AMERICAN CITIZENS. I passed my history classes. I enjoy reading up on history in my own personal time. I know where things like this often lead, and I’ve come to accept that it’s time to arm myself. A significant portion of our populace also supports what is happening and would be perfectly fine with people like myself, who want everyone to have healthcare, a good education, and to be fed, being “removed” from this plane of existence. These people are everywhere. I understand that they are not actively going out and killing people like me, but they are voting to persecute and harm people like me and the people I care about.

That’s enough for me to arm myself out of fear.

I don’t believe this to be a good society. I don’t believe this to be an intelligent society. I don’t believe this to be a safe society going forward.

I haven’t purchased a firearm yet, but I’ve been out shooting with friends a number of times and I’ve been asking questions to get ready for the process of acquiring at least one.

If the fasciats are going to try to kill me I will take at least one with me.

I don’t have any actual firearms, but I do have non-firearm designated air rifles for pest control

I am considering getting my PAL to get more powerful air rifles for the same reason, just for bigger game. The little Canadian ones are sub 5 fpe / sub 500 fps and not good for anything bigger than a rat, and barely even that

I have no desire to own a real firearm beyond the factor of it being a neat machine; even if I moved farther out there just wouldn’t be a need for it where I live.

Self defense against wildlife and shady humans when I’m solo camping

Police don’t show up quickly enough to deal with a serious threat, so I have a firearm for home defense. Just one. Not into collecting, whether firearms or anything else.

Need no? Want? Only flint lock and before that for decoration because pretty. So they also wouldnt be able to shoot

Whilst I do enjoy the military history of guns and have been to a shooting range in the USA before I don’t want any in my home. Ifi had them before I might not have been around due to the relative easy way out.

Also they are very hard to get where I live. I like that a lot. I think that there a majority of stupid people that I think would be terrible gun owners around me. I think in general my life would be worse is a majority of people owned guns.

I have no need for a gun. I live in a civilized country.

Guns make the police in my area more polite. That was thing I witnessed following the Ukraine revolution as well. Marshal law is more costly on an armed unwilling population.

I also hunt as part of our wild life management where I live.

Its also something that as a maker I love to tinker and build stuff for. Just one of those because you can kind of things

I have guns for the same reason I have fishing rods and a bow. I enjoy it, and there’s some satisfaction in being able to hunt or fish for a meal yourself. I didn’t grow up getting to shoot much aside from a few rare afternoons out with a .22 when dad had time. While I fished a lot, didn’t really get into shooting or hunting until after college. I started small game hunting with friends who would go out. While I had a lot of catching up to do, since I hadn’t grown up hunting like they did, I eventually figured out how to clean game without making too much of a disaster of it. I enjoyed the independence of it, knowing more about the whole process and being able to do more for myself. Taught myself to tie flies, eventually started reloading my own ammo, then got further down the rabbit hole to casting bullets. For my leverguns with oversized bores (30-30 and 45-70), rolling my own ammo has been the best way for me to get decent accuracy. I have firearms because they’re useful tools, and it’s just darned fun to know that I cast the bullet that was loaded over the powder I measured, in the brass casing I trimmed and resized, and it hit the target waaay out there down range right where I wanted it to go.

I recently moved and got rid of mine. However, I used to live in a really rough neighborhood. A lot of heavy drug use. Most folks were good people when sober, but when high, they don’t think logically, and bad mixes can cause aggression. Thankfully never had to shoot anyone, but police were called a few times with guns at the ready in case things escalated before police arrived. My mom still lives in that area, so I left her with a 38 special, a 20 guage shotgun, and a habit of calling the police the moment anything feels off in the neighborhood.

Need: no I do not

Want: pew pew explosions :DD

Do not want: sometimes I have the longing for death, also I’d be anxious about it being stolen and used for un-cool things, also seems expensive, also passive discomfort around a killing tool

The state requires me to. I keep them locked in a safe for most of the time.

I’ve been called the f word a few times since the election so I’m not going to become some homophobe’s victim

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