Okay TFL'ers, I need your help to get me thinking straight again. 
(But please don't flame me)
So last night/this morning...around 2:30am, our neighbors upstairs had quite a loud fight. They're two females, I'd say in their 30s. They have lived on the third floor (we live on the second floor) for five years.
I was laying in bed sleeping, when our dog started barking. At first I was annoyed, but as I continued to lay in bed, I heard two people arguing. I sat immediately upright when I thought I heard a gunshot (um, no, no, not paranoid...). It was a door slamming shut. I laid in bed a little while longer, listening to them fight, telling myself that I was going to call the cops. Then I heard one of the women screaming "call the cops!!!" repeatedly. So my mind was made up.
So I grab my cellphone and head out of my room (I don't know why--I just did) and my roommate and the dog was standing with the door open a little bit, and I realize that the woman was screaming at my roommate to call the cops (I had thought she was just screaming at her roommate, kinda mockingly). So I hand the lady the cellphone, and I guess she doesn't know how to use it or something, she tries to call 911 and then hands it back to me.
Long story short, I eventually called the cops (from our landline, thanks to that TFL thread). But my roommate and I were talking after the insanity had passed. And she said, "Some people just shouldn't have guns." She also pointed out that, if one of those women had had a gun, it probably would have been fired. Not everyone is going to be a responsible TFL-type gun owner; some people will shoot guns in a fit of rage.
I nodded in quiet agreement, but her comments kept me awake for the rest of the night. I'm sure they had knives in their kitchen; yet they didn't use them. They didn't use a baseball bat, or a shovel, or anything like that. But if they had had a gun, my gut instinct tells me that one of them would either be dead or seriously wounded. Or maybe someone in my apartment would be dead or wounded (what if the gun was pointed toward the floor when it had been shot?)
I also know, however, that there probably is no such law that could screen out the kind of person who would use a gun if angry. But, I do understand what's behind these gun control laws.
So, what I need from you guys, is....Talk some sense into me? Please? I know I'm wrong, but I can't see why.
(But please don't flame me)So last night/this morning...around 2:30am, our neighbors upstairs had quite a loud fight. They're two females, I'd say in their 30s. They have lived on the third floor (we live on the second floor) for five years.
I was laying in bed sleeping, when our dog started barking. At first I was annoyed, but as I continued to lay in bed, I heard two people arguing. I sat immediately upright when I thought I heard a gunshot (um, no, no, not paranoid...). It was a door slamming shut. I laid in bed a little while longer, listening to them fight, telling myself that I was going to call the cops. Then I heard one of the women screaming "call the cops!!!" repeatedly. So my mind was made up.
So I grab my cellphone and head out of my room (I don't know why--I just did) and my roommate and the dog was standing with the door open a little bit, and I realize that the woman was screaming at my roommate to call the cops (I had thought she was just screaming at her roommate, kinda mockingly). So I hand the lady the cellphone, and I guess she doesn't know how to use it or something, she tries to call 911 and then hands it back to me.
Long story short, I eventually called the cops (from our landline, thanks to that TFL thread). But my roommate and I were talking after the insanity had passed. And she said, "Some people just shouldn't have guns." She also pointed out that, if one of those women had had a gun, it probably would have been fired. Not everyone is going to be a responsible TFL-type gun owner; some people will shoot guns in a fit of rage.
I nodded in quiet agreement, but her comments kept me awake for the rest of the night. I'm sure they had knives in their kitchen; yet they didn't use them. They didn't use a baseball bat, or a shovel, or anything like that. But if they had had a gun, my gut instinct tells me that one of them would either be dead or seriously wounded. Or maybe someone in my apartment would be dead or wounded (what if the gun was pointed toward the floor when it had been shot?)
I also know, however, that there probably is no such law that could screen out the kind of person who would use a gun if angry. But, I do understand what's behind these gun control laws.
So, what I need from you guys, is....Talk some sense into me? Please? I know I'm wrong, but I can't see why.