If you don’t, no need to reply telling me you don’t. I live in the woods with some critters. I live pretty far from neighbors/police so having a gun gives me peace of mind. I also hunt and consider myself a gun hobbiest. I enjoy shooting targets, cleaning/organizing, reloading and earning food with guns.

  • Akasazh@feddit.nl
    1·
    17 minutes ago

    Whilst I do enjoy the military history of guns and have been to a shooting range in the USA before I don’t want any in my home. Ifi had them before I might not have been around due to the relative easy way out.

    Also they are very hard to get where I live. I like that a lot. I think that there a majority of stupid people that I think would be terrible gun owners around me. I think in general my life would be worse is a majority of people owned guns.

  • EchoCranium@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    4 hours ago

    I have guns for the same reason I have fishing rods and a bow. I enjoy it, and there’s some satisfaction in being able to hunt or fish for a meal yourself. I didn’t grow up getting to shoot much aside from a few rare afternoons out with a .22 when dad had time. While I fished a lot, didn’t really get into shooting or hunting until after college. I started small game hunting with friends who would go out. While I had a lot of catching up to do, since I hadn’t grown up hunting like they did, I eventually figured out how to clean game without making too much of a disaster of it. I enjoyed the independence of it, knowing more about the whole process and being able to do more for myself. Taught myself to tie flies, eventually started reloading my own ammo, then got further down the rabbit hole to casting bullets. For my leverguns with oversized bores (30-30 and 45-70), rolling my own ammo has been the best way for me to get decent accuracy. I have firearms because they’re useful tools, and it’s just darned fun to know that I cast the bullet that was loaded over the powder I measured, in the brass casing I trimmed and resized, and it hit the target waaay out there down range right where I wanted it to go.

  • hedge_lord@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    4 hours ago

    Need: no I do not

    Want: pew pew explosions :DD

    Do not want: sometimes I have the longing for death, also I’d be anxious about it being stolen and used for un-cool things, also seems expensive, also passive discomfort around a killing tool

  • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    5 hours ago

    Guns make the police in my area more polite. That was thing I witnessed following the Ukraine revolution as well. Marshal law is more costly on an armed unwilling population.

    I also hunt as part of our wild life management where I live.

    Its also something that as a maker I love to tinker and build stuff for. Just one of those because you can kind of things

  • DaleGribble88@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    7 hours ago

    I recently moved and got rid of mine. However, I used to live in a really rough neighborhood. A lot of heavy drug use. Most folks were good people when sober, but when high, they don’t think logically, and bad mixes can cause aggression. Thankfully never had to shoot anyone, but police were called a few times with guns at the ready in case things escalated before police arrived. My mom still lives in that area, so I left her with a 38 special, a 20 guage shotgun, and a habit of calling the police the moment anything feels off in the neighborhood.

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 hours ago

      I carried a CCW for years and finally gave it up because it’s a huge hassle to always have to be aware of. It’s a presence that doesn’t give me comfort, it made me always aware of its presence and that’s not how I want to experience the world. I would go back to carrying if I move to a more rural area again with less chance of immediate response of emergency services or other people.

  • Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    551·
    17 hours ago

    I’ve been called the f word a few times since the election so I’m not going to become some homophobe’s victim

      • Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        40 minutes ago

        Fuck yeah. I like to get pics of those assholes and photoshop a target on them for target practice. Can’t really bring them to the range but they make for fun targets for the basement BB gun gallery

    • snoons@lemmy.caEnglish
      13·
      16 hours ago

      “I can’t believe those DEI types will resort to political violence.”

      *I wonder how many racists even know what DEI stands for

    • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      12·
      17 hours ago

      This. I’m not into violence, but the Republicans are getting scary and they have a lot of weapons. It’d be easier to reconcile my issues with violence if I had to shoot someone than it’d be to reconcile the issues I’d have if I wasn’t able to fight them trying to hurt me or my family.

      Plus target shooting is fun.

      • Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        29 minutes ago

        I’m a punk so I’ve never been totally adverse to violence but usually a knife was good but now I really feel uncomfortable with the vibe I was getting and I felt it was time to get strapped. Fuckers always want a victim but shit their pants when they realize they found a fight. Someone kept eyeing me a little while back and I just stared back at them while clicking my gun belt and they went white in the face and got back in their truck real fast cos they’re all chicken-shit bullies.

        I can’t get enough target practice though, I even set up a little shooting gallery in my basement for bb and airsoft guns just to keep sharp when my ears are dying after the 50th trip in a row to the range where someone next to me had an AR going off the entire time. Nazis and klan bitches make for fun targets though in the basement gallery. I ended up with a .22 rifle as well to bring to the range and that is just so much fun to shoot with. That thing is nearly silent with some CCI quiets, you just hear the bolt hit the rim and the bullet impact

    • magnetosphere@fedia.io
      11·
      17 hours ago

      Good for you. Laws are nice, but sometimes firepower is the best option for securing your rights - especially if you live in a country where DEI is sneered at.

  • nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    17·
    15 hours ago

    Im American. All the people who think the laws were never meant to apply to them already have more guns than I have friends. And when they die, their likely rotten kids will get them. I can either accept that I live in a country where only terrible people have guns(this includes the cops). Or I could do something about it and take my sefety into my own hands. Really simple choice at the end of the day.

  • BurgerBaron@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    12 hours ago

    I didn’t ever want one until Trump threatened Canada and now I’m getting licenced. Just in case. That and winter survival training refresher. Hadn’t done any of that since Scouts long ago.

    I’d still die but maybe I last 20 minutes longer.

  • compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    24·
    16 hours ago

    1. A gun is useful tool for acquiring meat in a sustainable way. Shout out to venison!

    2. I am a trans woman. There are a lot of armed right wingers that would love to see me dead. They can try, but I’m not going to give them an easy time of it.

  • BranBucket@lemmy.world
    41·
    10 hours ago

    Mostly, I enjoy target shooting as a hobby. Hunting is big in my area as both deer and feral hogs need to be culled.

    I also feel there’s a greater chance of widespread civil unrest than most people understand, and that folks in my area will likely have to defend themselves to some extent if it breaks out. For various reasons, the people who are most important to me aren’t likely to be prepared for that, so I figure I should be ready to some extent.