I did give up my guns-- voluntarily! When I moved from Iowa to Arizona, I figured I really didn't need them anymore. I gave a really really sweet 9 mm semi-auto to a deputy sheriff friend of mine --it was built by a South African heavy arms manufacturer that dabbled in high-quality small arms. It was slender for smaller hands [like mine] and all edges smoothed for concealed carry. It had an anti-recoil mechanism under the barrel so it had almost zero kick. The arms dealer that sold it to me had been an unwavering fan of Glocks until he test fired the Vector I bought from him. Try as he might, that gun would not jam. It certainly was not the $79.95 piece of shit armed robbery weapon that Taurus manufactures.

Unlike many people I trained in using firearms before using them and like Jasun give firearms a lot of respect. I don't believe any gun intentionally hurt anybody, but there are a lot of idiots/cowards that use guns to hurt people and THOSE fuckers need to be controlled!