now what was your first name again
Bob
Bob okay
uh how how do you feel about uh gun control Bob
it's it's kind of like abortion it's kind of a touchy subject but um i i feel that
yeah it is
any person is uh has the right to be armed but i don't think they should have an arsenal
yeah
i don't believe in uh automatic weapons i don't believe in in uh having antitank guns and
um i i
there's just there's just too many uh weapons around
yeah
uh i kind of i agree i guess i don't i don't think that we need uh
um these these automatic or semiautomatic rifles even i mean i don't really even care that the i don't know if you hunt or not but i don't even care that some of the hunters say they they like them i mean
no i'm i'm not
that you know uh maybe they use them for legitimate purposes but they're all you know folks are getting them and using them for not so legitimate to say the least
yeah
no
purposes what do you feel about uh um how do you feel about a waiting period
i yeah i think that's a a good thing in
in the sense that it um it stops someone that is acting on a impulse however
uh anyone that has a revenge factor in mind is is going to weight that out
right
um most um Dallas has if you read in the papers recently um the um
uh murder ratio in Dallas one point uh seven i think per day
uh-huh
uh
and ninety somewhat percent of these know
uh the perpetrator it's it's not it's not criminals that are going out and killing people
yeah
it it's people with guns that are that are shooting other people
yeah it's probably not someone that's running down to the store and buying one either is it probably someone who's got one already yeah
no someone that's got one and and and for some reason whatever um they became
uh enraged or
you know it uh
some of these are somebody's dating somebody's uh girl friend or ex-wife or
um
a person that they know and and
it's it's again something that you know it's it's a uh
it's a decision of uh emotion
not um
it's not something you can really control usually i don't think you can
uh-huh
i don't think you can regulate it
if they don't use a gun maybe they'll use a knife
hm
yeah
yeah i mean yeah i don't know if i mean yeah if someone wants to do someone in they're gonna do it whether they have a gun or not uh what do you think about that um that uh
sure
deal with the police officer evidently evidently um i guess they speculate that it was teenagers
that that somehow got a hold of a gun
well yeah yeah
yeah and and you look at the you know drive by shootings and things like that with with young uh people involved it's it's
it's a very volatile situation it's a funny world that we live in
yeah i i we just moved here about eight or nine months ago from from uh a little town in North Carolina
um-hum
and uh we have lived in Fort Worth before and and in Houston for a while so we we're you know we're accustomed to the big city but my kids weren't in in the age they are now they're in uh high school and junior middle school
um-hum
and the middle the high schools around here um man police have come in and and uh you know they got they raid the school and take out ten revolvers you know i mean it's just uh
yeah
sure
so it seems like
um you know it seems like and no and that's not a case of someone flipping out and running down and buying one so a waiting period isn't gonna help that but it seems like that there ought to be something that could be done to
at least make it harder for those kids to get their hands on guns
well that that's parental control
yeah
and and that's you know that extends beyond guns that extends to drugs and everything else that that is bad in our society and and we don't have the
we don't have the parental control that that we need
yeah that's true
that's that's a there's there's there's no deterrent um there really isn't and and you're not going to stop uh guns from being on the streets
again if they don't use a gun they'll use something else
and and then you take away the fact that uh
somebody has a right to protect their property
