T.A. hit the nail-on-the-head and I completely agree with his posting.

I know the following will sound stupid but, I speak the truth.

Last I heard, a firearm cannot pick-n-choose when or where it will be fired. Last I heard, a firearm has no thought capacity and cannot pull its own trigger and fire itself. Last I heard, a firearm cannot load cartridges into a magazine and load the magazine into the magazine housing in itself. And lastly, a firearm is made up of steel--which comes as an ore that is embedded within dirt and rock. That ore has to be mined, shipped to a facility in order to be turned into refined ore that in turn is purified through a number of steps taken, into the raw metal-like substance itself.

After that, that substance is turned into a raw metal product that has to be finely engineered into soemthing usable in order to be made into metal parts to make a firearm. Then one (if this weapon is going to have a wooden furniture) one will have to get wood, which many steps had to be taken in order for a more finished porduct that can be used in order to be a component in making a firearm.

At any rate, neither that wood, or the metals used, can have a thought process in thinking: Hmmmm, I wonder who I can shoot and kill today.

All that gentlemen, has to come from some human who is mentally ill, and should have had their background checked, before being allower to; purchase a firearm. Like in that recent university killing spree, that cho-jerk, somehow slipped through the cracks and was able to purchase weapons. That "SLIP" was because someone along the line, did not fully do their job in checking for such info. However, the Guvnuh of Virginia, changed and made that into law as of last week.

At any rate, noone anywhere will ever be able to convince me that guns are evil thinking items with the capability of being able to hate someone of loading and firing itself at someone. THE only way that is possible, is of course by some sicko-""human being"" that is hellbent on destroying as many lives as it can.

I for one, will always own at least one gun. The last one I bought, I was able to take home the same day--after my background was checked by the ATF/FBI-at the very gun show I had attended - instead of that 10 day waiting period that one normally had to go through. If I had something wrong in my background, I would not have been able to take home my Walther P-38 that very afternoon. If I remember, I was told at time of purchase, to come back in about 2 hrs and see the status of my background check. At worst, I expected to have had to come back to that gunshow the next day to pick up my purchase ~~or~~ to have to wait that 10 day waiting period and to have to have my purchase sent to a licensed gun dealer for me to pick up my weapon from.

At any rate, the FBI/ATF guys, had no problem with anything I have ever done and I had my purchase in hand, in slightly less than 2 hrs after signing the forums and paying for it.

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