okay
now where do you live
i live in Richardson Texas
oh well we're pretty close then
you bet
well see our subject was gun control
yes
i'm sort of uh prejitice prejudiced on this subject because that's my vocation that's what i do for a living
because i'm a i'm a manufacturer's sales rep and i sell hunting and shooting supplies
working working for eighteen different companies so
i would guess i would be sort of pro
well i guess we have something in common then because i don't think it's guns
pro pro guns but uh
okay
that are the problem it's it's the people
no
i agree one hundred percent
i mean they're just an inanimate object until they are in the hands of
someone who is
who is violent or has a a sick warped mind
i agree with you one hundred percent Jean i'll tell you that somewhere i saw a bumper sticker years ago i'd like to see more of them i think uh speaking from my my viewpoint think it read something like uh when guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns
exactly
and i think that sort of speaks for itself i believe uh
in some gun control
but i think it's and i you know in selling to the industry or selling for the industry to dealers i think that it's the federal government's
stand that should be taken and i think that dealers now or to buy a gun now an individual just has to go in a store and and show his drivers license and if he
has a Texas state drivers license and if he lives in Texas he can go to any gun dealer and buy a gun merely by filling out a yellow form and and paying for the firearm and leaving
with it at the time
right it would be it would be handy if they had you know computers being like they are if they'd have some kind of a
computer program on a national level where you could just dial an eight hundred number and
and run a check on someone
right
i would be for something like that
yes it would uh but then
too the people who
who have guns already um some of them they may have had this gun for twelve years before they
uh become mentally unbalanced and use it
that's true
and otherwise i mean if someone is going to get a gun
uh and is determined to get a gun and commit some some act
they're going to get it whether they can walk in a store and buy it or if they have to break into a house across town or
something you know they're going to get one
absolutely
but uh no you and i i think have the same idea that guns are not the problem
yeah
i've heard a lot of people say why i wouldn't have a gun in my house they're too dangerous
ignorance is what's dangerous
you bet absolutely
uh i have uh many grandchildren and they have all been raised in the house with guns with loaded guns they have been taught
the danger of guns how to handle them
um from the time well i had a granddaughter that
i raised and from the time that she was um
three or four
she knew that the gun that i had was not to be touched and that it was dangerous and i never had to worry about her
well that's wonderful
but
uh anytime that she would have friends come i would put i had a closet that would lock and any gun firearms that were loaded we usually keep a uh
twelve gauge shotgun loaded and then my handgun
and anytime that there were other children in the house i had i put them in the closet that locked just for safety sake
well that's great we've always done the same thing and
being in the business i've sold guns for twenty seven years i'm fifty two years old and i've sold guns for twenty seven years worked for some major manufacturers like Winchester and people like that and
and i always consider a a firearm i know they're very dangerous but i always consider everything a sporting firearm and i realize that
just as you say some people don't think of them as that but that's how i think of them being that i'm in the business but main thing is just be education and communication on the subject
and that's something we have always tried to do
and
i'm a strong believer in that
yes i think that these children that find guns and shoot themselves or another child
uh if they if they knew what they were playing with
they wouldn't do it
absolutely right
because they would my son-in-law one of the when the boys were just very very small
he was
educating them about the guns and he took a watermelon out and set it up on
uh this
little rise out on the desert where they live
right
