:crazy-eye You opened a whole bottle of worms when you took up the "Gun Issue" I live in the USA. I have heard so many American arguments over this issue. All I know is that I don't want to even touch a gun, see a gun, hear a gun go off. For me NO GUNS!!!! If I hear anyone discuss owning one, using one, collecting one, wanting to get one, keeps one in a house with kids, then I'm history!!!!

I know my parents were brought up on farms out West during the Depression era so they are very knowledgeable around guns... there was always lots of talk around the dinner table in my very pre-adult years... I heard lots of times what a good shot my mother was.... still makes my veins freeze!! My sperm donor is still a HUNTER at the age of 76. The reason they stopped using their fireplace was because my sperm donor decided to store his guns in the storage areas that were for the wood which were ajacent to the fireplace. I remember him trying to teach me [the second oldest oldest daughter] to shoot one. AAAAAUGH!!! I was almost paralyzed when he put the rifle in my hands... when I pulled the trigger and fired. I got knocked on my ass; no way I'd touch a gun after that.

Believe me he was very unhappy about that quite a few times. I remember one day eons ago when I was at work [my major task was ringing the register] I was counting the till at the end of my shift when the thing-a-ma-jigger that holds the bills down snapped back down and at that precise second I was aware of the fireflash in the dark coming from a gun and being aware at the same second a bullet whizzing right past the side of my head....Yes..I jumped at the very same time!!! I have this really heavy question about why I knew in that brief scary memory that my sperm donor had pulled the trigger....AUUUUUUUUGGGGGH!!!!!!!

I also remember the time as a young adult, I was in his shop sorting out screws & nails when he came in angrily babbling. I then saw him reach around the entry door and pull out a gun and go out with it. I was so very certain that he was going Shoot me very shortly!!! The fear that gripped me was very OVERWHELMING!!!!! It was like being flash-frozen but with heat and intense terror; as it turned out he was using his b-b gun to shoot at the neighbour's cat as it crossed into the yard...as I said....NO GUNS FOR ME!!!

Also I wanted to say that my experience with politicians is they tend to ignore LOTS of very vital issues!!!! Like the high poverty rate and the lack of sufficient [and the best!] health care for citizens who are too poor to pay for that, and equal justice for all.... not just for those who have influence and the $$$s to pay for it!!!!

Still...like you said....your facts are piss funny!!!!!