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Quote of the day – Guns

Posted by JAZZ SHAW, Assistant Editor in Uncategorized.
Jul 29th, 2008 | Comments

Even for second amendment supporters, there is a big difference between buying a gun for yourself and buying one for somebody else. With that in mind, your quote of the day:

Buying a gun for your wife is another way of saying, “You know, I’d kind of like to kill myself, but I want it to come as a surprise.”

Marc Maron

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JSpencer

The quote cracked me up Jazz. Reminds me of the reason I didn't teach my ex-wife how to shoot. ;-)

runasim

What a relief. Gun lovers do have a sense of humor! :-)

pacatrue

I've said this before I think, but I remember some stat on NPR years ago that a gun in the home is several times more likely to be used to injure a family member than an intruder. They did the reader responses a few days later and the reader asked what liberal source gave this stat and the answer was the NRA.

Home gun ownership in a family has always seemed a catch-22 to me. The only way to keep a gun truly safe so that there is an extremely low risk of a home accident is to keep the gun in such a place (unloaded, in a safe, etc.) that it takes too much time to have it ready when an intruder does show up. Maybe if the safe is RIGHT next to the bed, you could get it open and the weapon ready in time to be effective.

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