[speaker001:] what do you feel about it
[speaker002:] uh  well let's see um generally I don't think there should be much gun control uh I like to I like to do a lot of hunting and I have my own gun at home and stuff but uh the older I get I think the more I believe there ought to be gun control for instance uh just yesterday I go out my front door and somebody had shot a dog out of their front door their subdivision and the thing kind of wound up right where my kids get picked up at the bus stop
[speaker001:] oh really that's kind of creepy
[speaker002:] so uh yeah it is creepy you know and uh you know it makes me think hey you know there's a lot of a there's a lot of nutcases you know living even in you know in your subdivision and I mean
[speaker001:] yeah well what do you think about like automatic weapons and stuff I mean those can't be used for hunting
[speaker002:] yeah see yeah you look like look at automatic weapons and things like that and uh you know clearly they have no no useful hunting purpose and uh
[speaker001:] yeah unless you're really bad
[speaker002:] yeah even then if you're that bad it probably wouldn't help any anyway just uh it'll help you kill like I mean up in Virginia a lot of hunters get killed anyway just with shotguns you know so I can't imagine what it'd be like if they're doing it with automatic weapons
[speaker001:] oh really what kind of gun do you use when you hunt
[speaker002:] uh when I hunt I use a twelve gauge shotgun it's uh actually a lot of heavy broacher so it's kind of a short range kind of thing
[speaker001:] uh-huh oh really what kind of stuff do you hunt with it
[speaker002:] uh well I the last time I hunted I hunted turkey actually and uh you know it's
[speaker001:] oh really
[speaker002:] I wasn't too successful but I would've shot one if I'd see one so and
[speaker001:] was that yeah when you use a shot gun do you have to like pick uh the pellets out of the when you're I mean
[speaker002:] oh yeah well you're supposed and yeah you're supposed to sure you have to try to get it out of there
[speaker001:] shot  but yeah I guess I could you could probably hurt your tooth or something
[speaker002:] uh well it's actually uh I don't know if this is true anymore but it's lead shot saying that you don't want to
[speaker001:] oh really
[speaker002:] you don't want eat a piece of lead but um yeah I think uh you're supposed to do that also you have to be real careful uh about what the animal's been eating you know like uh if you ever hunt pheasant you know sometimes they get into corn that's been uh like you know has mercury on it or something and
[speaker001:] yeah  ugh
[speaker002:] and uh to keep the because the corn gets treated to keep uh insect dusts away so so if you go in and you dig into the pheasant yeah you can get mercury poison
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] but uh so there's I mean there's sort of some risks to that actually uh let me think gun control uh I I generally generally actually since I live so close to DC and since it's the murder capital of the world and you know the
[speaker001:] anyway yeah Atlanta's not far behind
[speaker002:] yeah well they have guys I mean I guess they have this Atlanta too but I mean they got guys you know running around you know driving down the street with sub machine guns and stuff and
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] you know I don't even let my wife and uh kids go down there anymore unless you know I'm with them or something and then we just stick strictly to the mall area you know we never never venture outside of that area so
[speaker001:] yeah well I mean I feel as if nobody you know if there weren't already hand hand so many hand guns and everything prevalent you wouldn't need you know you wouldn't need one for self-defense but it seems like there's so many of them uh that it's really impossible you know it'd be impossible to it'd be impossible to do anyway I mean people would buy them regardless whether it was uh legal or illegal illegal I think
[speaker002:] yeah doesn't that kind of strike you as especially in big cities that uh you know the law enforcement agencies aren't really capable of of providing the kind of protection that you they should be able to provide
[speaker001:] no not at all our house as a matter of fact there's some guy that walked in and stole one of my roommate's bikes while he was in the shower just the other day and that's kind of creepy to we live I live right down town and uh if they'd wanted to you know
[speaker002:] yeah yeah uh-huh coming at or something you know
[speaker001:] yeah yeah if they wanted to shoot me or something there there wouldn't have been any problem I mean they just it was in broad it was during the day too so obviously they don't have a whole lot of fear of uh
[speaker002:] yeah  yeah
[speaker001:] being caught by the police in anyway anyway
[speaker002:] yeah I you know I feel like like you know the when they when they interview these criminals you know the burglars and things they that the two things that they say keep them out of a house best are guns and dogs because they
[speaker001:] uh-huh  yeah we're getting a dog as a
[speaker002:] yeah so they know there's a dog there they know there's a gun there you know they're probably not going to rob you they'll probably go to the next house
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh if they if they suddenly pass a really global law that says you can't have any guns you know there I mean there's guaranteed to be a higher percentage of people just breaking in assuming that these guys don't have any guns and
[speaker001:] um-hum it's just crazy I've seen the statistics statistics on the number of deaths by hand guns in the United States compared with like Canada and and it's just uh I mean they have like you know a handful a year
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] uh and it's just outrageous how much how many we have here but
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I don't I don't know if there's anything that can be if gun control would solve that problem
[speaker002:] yeah contributing maybe contributing factors too nobody nobody knows about yeah I'm I'm usually pretty skeptical on that kind of stuff these studies
[speaker001:] yeah and besides that I don't think I think the NRA's got such a big lobby that I don't think they'd be able to
[speaker002:] yeah clearly they have some other motive you know I mean their their argument used to be you know the communist were going to take over or something well they aren't anymore you know so what's the argument now well
[speaker001:] yeah