okay Jean um could you tell me what you what you think about uh gun control
well
i think we have a lot of laws on the books right now that if they were
kept and followed would take care of a lot of the problems we have
as as far as firearms go
or as far as firearms going or is it just uh the
pardon
yes
the gun the gun control
gun controls yeah i'm not really all that sure on on
uh what the federal regulations are but it seems like each state has their own
or at at least that's what my belief is is that each state has their own regulations
uh-huh
you know some require uh uh a permit
and some don't some require waiting periods and some don't um
right
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we require permits like if you're going to carry a pistol for protection or for whatever reason you you know have you to have a permit for that
right that's
that's what it is up here it's like that too you need uh as far as a rifle or anything like that no you can just go out and buy it um
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i i just i just don't feel that uh a stronger restrictions is going to stop a person who really wants to have one for misuse
i really don't personally feel that it's going to help
no unless it's a like one of those automatic weapons
well those we don't need
you know i can see there are uh gun collectors that you know go out and collect all these and there are people that go out and fire on ranges and things
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um if you want an automatic weapon just for that because you certainly
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don't need it going out hunting
no no no
um then i think
somebody's who's into into shooting though like you say sharpshooters or uh that type of thing wouldn't be so bad but uh
yep
i yeah i think that should be regulated
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those types of weapons as far as a pistol
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anybody and uh
and their uncle can get a pistol anytime they want um
uh-huh uh-huh
i don't think the laws
are going to keep them from getting them if they really want one
no no what i
i just i really don't believe that
what i think should happen is uh any violent crime with a weapon with a with a pistol
or or a rifle for that matter
uh-huh
i think they should prosecute to the fullest extent of the law
oh definitely definitely
and that's that's what they're not doing now
uh-huh that's i say if they would use the laws they have on the books
i think it would stop quite a bit of what goes on
but they're i don't know it it sometimes seems like they're too lenient with some things but yet if a guy steals a loaf of bread for their family
he's in worse trouble than they are
right they crucify him
yeah
um
but yeah i don't know if it's i don't know if it's the judicial system like the judges that are too lenient
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because there are precedents saying you know well it's
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he really didn't mean to do it it was a fit of anger or or uh he had too much to drink or he was on dope and he didn't know what he was doing
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uh i don't really buy that i mean
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if he if he drank too much he knew he drank too much or or if he was on dope he knew he was he was what was going to happen when he when he took it
yeah
yeah it's kind of a cop out
yeah
uh-huh
but yet i've seen some
jury trials where the people feel sorry for the whoever did whatever they did
oh you definitely
and they and they're lenient they go lenient on them and then after they sit there and i read the paper and i say she you know
yeah yeah
um
i think a lot of people put themselves in the place in the place of the person that has done the crime
and they think of how they would react and then they don't think anybody could do the things that this person is accused of doing
yep yeah
and i think that sometimes colors some of their feelings on uh
you're probably right uh a lot of cases too it is
um in a fit of anger people do things that they regret for the rest of their life
uh-huh uh-huh
right right
but yet
there are also the others
that commit crimes over and over and over again and
right right
they're out on the street after a short sentence
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those are the ones that you know should get the book thrown at them on
they should be kept there and overcrowding of course that has a lot to do with i think a lot of times with uh the type of sentence that's given
you know what's available for keeping them
yeah
what
let's
yeah um
i grew up in a rural area and we've always uh we've always hunted i've hunted for years until i got older and then i i just hung my guns up and i just kind of
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you know i'd rather go out with a camera now and and shoot the animals
i don't have a my my my husband and my one boy he hunted uh
yeah well we we passed a or the town passed an ordinance that it's against the law now to to shoot a firearm off in the town and it's it's still a rural area and it's still farms and orchards and
so
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and we live
right down by next to the reservoir so there's a lot of ducks and you know there's all kinds of wild animals
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and for years it was like a shooting gallery down there
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well some people have no sense at all in shooting to know how far to be away from buildings and that to shoot i mean
some of them use no s ense at all
right
yep yep because we didn't but a neighbor of ours had uh uh a bullet came came through right right through the side of the house and it
uh-huh well we've had that happen in our area also um-hum
so but since they've done that since they've limited hunting
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it's been uh the birds are back the animals are back it's uh it's peaceful
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so our town got together
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so maybe uh communities have to do that if you
well i think it depends on the community now we're rural also and our houses are not
they're not that close like we have a shooting range across the road from our home
but it's far enough away we have fields around it
it's a regular oh but
and it's
it's far enough away from you know houses and
yeah
that type of thing that uh
it's a what is it like a rod and gun club
no it's just our own personal
oh okay so it's
we just have a a personal lot yeah yeah
it's for you oh okay
now we do have a sportsman's uh club who has a an indoor shooting range
and it's very nice our our one boy was a sharpshooter
he was interested yeah he was interested in that then uh
oh isn't that good yeah
did a
so what is he does he have to follow certain rules and regulations because he's a uh sharpshooter or
uh no not really he doesn't do it now because he's not here he lives in Pittsburgh
now and so he he really hasn't been doing too much shooting lately
yep
but he he really did enjoy it
but
but he had to have a special permit to carry a gun from place to place
um
i don't think they had to have not for shooting not for their rifles and that
it would be just like uh going hunting you don't need a permit to carry you know you're not allowed to carry them loaded or anything like that
oh okay yeah i know
right yeah
uh
so you just need a hunting license
no no i don't think so uh the rifles that they use like in their uh
uh ROTC
now i think they had to they i think they had to do a little bit more when they use them they also had a club at the college here
oh okay yep
that he shot in and
ah okay
they had a few more restrictions there
yeah so he was probably following
whatever the protocol was for the military
right right
yeah
so i kind of agree with you then that uh uh the only the only thing i would like to see them regulate is is the automatic weapons
yeah there's no there's really no call for
for that that type of weapon
but as far as everything else uh if they
uh-huh
if they followed the rules and regulations and the laws that were already in place
i think that uh uh
that would suffice we wouldn't have to go any further we wouldn't have to put more regulations out there
uh-huh now the lady said they she wanted us to rate from one to ten as to how we felt on a one being uh
that's right a a total ban
yeah
on on
ten ten would be no regulations at all let's see no wait how was it
yeah right ten was no no restrictions whatsoever and one being was uh
okay
uh a total ban
yeah
you know or totally restrictive
yeah
i kind of think uh
probably a six i would go with
i would go along with that
a happy medium so to speak
uh that's
yeah i'd like to see them restrict just those like i said before those new automatic weapons but the rest of it i don't think they need anymore
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yeah yeah
okay so i guess we kind of we've solved that problem right
i don't know if we solved it but it is a problem and it unfortunately uh
i'm not real crazy about guns myself but being from hunting families i
tolerate them
yeah yeah well that's
and i like i like them to learn their safety rules and that and and i think that is good that they have to have a uh now here at least
they have a hunter's safety course that the the young people have to take before they're allowed to hunt yes
have to take before they ah that's good that is
they they have to do that before they can get a license to hunt
yeah and any responsible person or any responsible hunter is going to is going to go through some kind of a a course like that um
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