I'm non-violent. I don't believe in spanking and I will never own a gun. : - ) Old Salt will really go all Rush Limbaugh on me now!
Nah.... To each his/her own. Some people are skilled enough in behavior modification of children to not have to resort to such measures. I was not. All three daughters are in their 40's and are good, decent people with a desire to be good people. The oldest required a very modest amount of correction when quite young. She was set on course by age 3 with the occasional pop on the rump. The mid-kid required none, barely a stern rebuke. The youngest was a holy terror until she was about 10, then she caught on. She is my favorite (don't tell the other girls). We recently had a wide-ranging conversation about "back then". She thanked me for turning her around when she was little. She had recently read an article about children being set in their ways by 6 or 8 or something like that. We didn't give up on her, or allow her to run wild. She is the one who I mentioned could, given the materials & time, build a house, including wiring, plumbing, and concrete work.
People who don't want guns shouldn't have them. But they ought not to deny them to those who do, except for the criminals. If a criminal is found to posses a firearm, (s)he should be tossed in the clink for a good long time, say 10 years.
Guns and their potential use is a subject that can be argued unto eternity. I like them. I have several. I almost never have occasion to use one for anything other than poking holes in paper. I live in a safe area where the keys are usually in my car in the driveway and the doors to the house are only sporadically locked. I have a handgun license, but hardly ever carry one. I would if going to a really dangerous part of Indy, but I don't, so I don't. If I lived in a dangerous area, I would. I think that, if more citizens carried handguns, there would be less crime as criminals would never know who might be able to fight back. One of the old-timers, maybe Mark Twain, but maybe not, once said "An armed society is a polite society". But they had crime back then, too. So who knows? Well, hell, here I go, rambling on the keyboard again. Shut up, you old coot, nobody cares about your drivel.
Remember, when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
John
