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i guess if i had to rate it from one to ten i guess i would rate it a five in the aspect that i wouldn't want everybody to have guns
and i think there should be limitations of like semiautomatics uh things like that should not be just given out to anybody In fact you know i can't imagine anybody having a semiautomatic for what purpose
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so i guess you know being that i come from a hunting family i'd rather have some restrictions put on weapons
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but yet allow hunting rifles uh things that people would use for sporting type of uh uh activity those would be fine but when you get into um
a lot of the more complex weapons i would say yes we need to put restrictions on them
um that's probably i probably would have to agree with you pretty much all the way i think um
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i definitely think that there some things shouldn't be limited like like you said rifles and um hunting rifles and probably handguns for people who use them to
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exactly for for self protection sure
right and but i think the i think semiautomatic weapons people say they use them because it for sport but i i
personally cannot see any use for them other than uh for for for only like people who just like have some sort of crazed
i can't imagine that yeah
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you know ambition to use have high powered weapons or something
to do massive amounts of killing uh yeah
right and i mean you can only how much do you want
the only thing i can see is the police having it in a case where somebody is uh
uh you know going to kill a massive amount of people or uh somebody that's escaping that's uh very dangerous
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semiautomatic would allow more rounds to be put out to hopefully catch a person and and uh get him down but um
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you know i i think of my family uh they're very much into sporting and uh you know as far as hunting and also like uh clay pigeons
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things like that so they have may have some shotguns they may have other types of uh hunting type things but i figured if the if the criminals had to take a hunting gun
out to kill somebody more than likely somebody would see it you know what i'm saying versus a
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you know a small handgun um that can be you know put right in your coat pocket and nobody would see it but yet you can't stop people from having you know a handgun in their home
yeah that's true
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even if there are small children around there's you know you can't say people with small children can't have guns and people without small children that may have grandchildren you know still have these guns but
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um i guess i i was always taught number one a gun isn't a toy
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um you know and i don't know if that makes a difference if the parent sits down to them and say this gun can kill you know and don't ever play with it
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um so i don't know if that makes a difference or what but
well i think partly uh in that case i think that cases like that it's definitely um i think
if you're to say okay we have to get rid of them all because you know they can only they only seem to do bad it it's um it's saying we're too
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but criminals would get them i mean even if they had to go across borders to get them
right right and people who people who have them and are responsible with them are are are being punished and people who
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and they're saying that people you cannot take care of things yourself or like that you're not smart enough to teach your kids how to how to uh
how to use you know to make sure that guns are put up as something as uh not a toy yeah because we had guns all over our house when we were kids and not that they were laying on the uh couch or anything like that but um
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i never had an interest in them being in the fact that i knew that guns could kill and i had four brothers and never messed with any type of guns
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and so it was kind of the idea that we knew that a gun could kill and that a gun wasn't a toy
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and of course we were quite young and we went through uh the National Rifle uh Club and so we were taught
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you know kind of at a a good age ten and eleven and twelve to sit down with a kid and say okay if you gonna learn how to shoot a gun you're going to learn how to do it correctly and you're going to learn how to have safeguards and
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and know how to protect yourself but yet have this you know training so that kids aren't you know they have to have a certain respect for it
right well i think i mean we i grew up in a family and and my father had two guns because he used to hunt years ago but
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stopped before really before i was old enough to remember but and i knew we had the guns in the house and the the time my father was keeping them just for protection at the time
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sure yeah
but we it was never my brothers and sisters nor i never i mean none of us ever thought well let's go look at the gun or let's go get the gun out it was just something you knew was there and the it was your father's and you you that was not something you'd go and play played with at all
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and i think maybe uh and that's the type of the thing that should be you know stressed
yeah i think so and and i don't know if the kids nowadays are different than what i i can't explain
