“I said, ‘Dad, I have to go, if this is the last time we talk, I love you,’” Henderson recalled. “I lost my mom a few years ago, so my dad is like my lifeline. Just saying goodbye to him was tough.”
“I said, ‘Dad, I have to go, if this is the last time we talk, I love you,’” Henderson recalled. “I lost my mom a few years ago, so my dad is like my lifeline. Just saying goodbye to him was tough.”
you should fear guns. Isn’t that the first rule of gun ownership? The gun is always loaded, even when it’s not. Only point it at stuff you intend to destroy.
That is legitimate and helpful fear. Same as you should be afraid of electrical current, raw chicken, fast flowing water and bears.
Me when notice a car nearby 😱 😱 😱
yeah you shouldn’t walk in front of traffic either? I’m not sure how this is much of a comeback.
If I posted, “you should fear cars. Isn’t that the first rule of car ownership?” under and article about truck stampeding protesters, most would call it absurd. Try to understand logical consistency.
You said the first thing individuals are taught is to fear firearms when learning to use them, which is patently false.
Learning to use a firearm isn’t storming the beaches of Normandy, just as learning to use a car doesn’t require an individual to leg it across a highway. Pertaining to an ordinary setting, the only similarity is using a tool, you confuse fear for respect.
but that isn’t the first rule of car ownership, it doesn’t make any sense.
It does make sense to say that “the gun is always loaded” and “only point it at things you intend to destroy” which is where I was coming from.
Respect isn’t fear. Knowing what something is capable of isn’t being afraid of the item. Fearing something puts more emphasis on the bad possibilities than is reasonable.
Recognizing danger should have nothing to do with fear. Fear is irrational.
I’d argue “respecting what could kill you” is both a form and consequence of fear, fear being an instinct borne of self-preservation and the necessity of the social contract.