I don't. They don't fascinate me much. What country you live ? I live in Canada. We appear to have more strict gun laws than the Americans.
shareI've owned a few toy ones in my life including water pistols and game console guns Haha, real, for over 95 or so percent - no.
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(P.S. Remember how in the Nirvana song "Come As You Are" Kurt Cobain proclaimed "No I don't have a gun" and three or two years later he shot himself with one - a shotgun. As sad as it is really )
Kurt Cobain really made suicide trendy. I lol'd at the idiots who off'd themselves after Cobain did it.
shareBut most of them probably haven't done so for real or did he really influence them in that sense?
By the way (and 5 years ago I even made a thread about it here) - "Come As You Are" is actually my favourite Nirvana song.
It's decent. I like "Heart-shaped Box", "About a Girl", and "Bloom".
shareI guess you meant to say - you like those songs of theirs even MORE (than "Come As You Are", for one), right?
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shareI like them a lot too but Come As You Are has always been my most preferred personal favourite.
And I feel I can relate to it and plus eerily but also interestingly it seems to foreshadow Kurt Cobain's own grisly fate in the near future.
And that weird video with water in the studio and steady light fixture not falling while Kurt is on it and use of projector etc.
I have 5 guns: 3 that I bought myself (Colt Government Model, Ruger Vaquero, and an AR-15 that I built) and 2 that I inherited when my father died a few years ago (Marlin bolt-action .22 Magnum and a Henry lever-action .22 Magnum). I always considered the Marlin to be mine anyway, since he bought it for my older brother and me to use in 1982 when I was 7, and I've used it way more than anyone else over the years. My older brother never took an interest in guns, and has never owned one that I know of.
I've owned several other guns that I bought and sold when I was a teenager.
Firearm laws are pretty strict here in the UK so I don't own any real guns, but I have two replicas.
A blank firing Glock 17, looks and sounds like the real thing and was made before blank guns had to be painted in bright colours to differentiate them for the real thing.
I also have a cap gun which is a revolver with a metal body and plastic grip, looks like something out the wild west but is really just a toy, apparently it's a SCORPIAN going by the branding engraved on the side of it.
No, and I don't want one. Too dangerous - too many stories of children getting ahold of them and shooting/killing a family member. My now ex-husband had a couple of guns when we first got married. Once our firstborn was on the way, I made him get rid of them. I just didn't want to take a chance on a tragedy happening. He turned them in to the police department. This was many years ago.
shareI'm guessing you're very selective with that "reasoning" of yours. For example, your kids were probably born in a hospital? You probably took your kids to see a doctor from time to time? You've probably been to see a doctor on occasion yourself?
According to one study by Johns Hopkins researchers, more than 250,000 deaths in the U.S. each year are caused by medical malpractice.
With over 250,000 malpractice deaths each year, medical mistakes can be considered the 3rd leading cause of death in the U.S., after heart disease and cancer. However, an earlier study published in the Journal of Patient Study found the number of deaths due to preventable mistakes was even higher, at about 400,000 people per year.
“Do they also take other unwanted items like old broken down refrigerators and washing machines?”
Wait! What? Is this a thing now?
It should be, especially if they made house calls:
"Here's this rusty old single-shot .22 with a broken firing pin that I called you about, Officer, and while you're here, you can also have this 1967 set of encyclopedias. You might want to call for backup because that old couch needs to go too..."
I would never try to talk you into buying something you didn't want or didn't feel comfortable with, but responsible firearms owners don't have problems with this. They keep the firearms stored in a secure, locked container; employ trigger locks; keep the firearms out of their children's hands; and keep ammunition stored separately. They also teach children about responsible firearms safety. With a little care and logic, they can be useful tools or sporting equipment that won't cause anybody any undo harm.
But, again, it's your call, and I totally get why you wouldn't want the hassle (or expense).
I own a BFG 9000.
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