Today on the Net was a news release that Stephen King has written a 25 page essay, "Guns", that can be purchased on Amazon Kindle. He talks of being the owner of three handguns and makes sense to me.
Here is an excerpt:
"No one wants to take away your hunting rifles. No one wants to take away your shotguns. No one wants to take away your revolvers, and no one wants to to away your automatic pistols, as long as said pistols hold no more than 10 rounds. If you can't kill a home invader (or your wife, up in the the middle of the night to get a snack from the fridge) with ten shots, you need to go back to the local shooting range."
"How paranoid do you want to be? How many guns does it take to make you feel safe. And how do you simultaneously keep them loaded and close at hand, but still out of reach of your inquisitive children or grandchildren? Are you sure you wouldn't do better with a really good burglar alarm? It's true you have to remember to set the darn thing before you go to bed, but think of this - if you happen to mistake your wife or live-in partner for a crazed drug addict, you couldn't shoot her with a burglar alarm."
I for one know that Mr. King knows something about "Crazed" people.
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