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Like nukes?  Wtf?  Or a fire extinguisher, or an epi-pen, or a life raft, or a car jack, or road flares, or a tourniquet, pet waste cleaner, or a hundred other things people have but hope they don’t have to use?
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Insurance is something you have to have and hope you never have to use >

Insurance is a boring financial instrument. A gun is a cool toy that makes insecure nerds feel powerful. Slight difference. >

I don’t feel anymore powerful while shooting than when I’m not shooting. >

I actually think a responsible owner will want to use it at a range or something to stay familiar and confident with the firearm >

IDK, I don't like shooting but I feel like need to know how how to use one in order to to defend myself.
They're really loud and I hate using them, still needed to learn how. >

Good way to help with the noise find some nice active ear protection or double up with passive with those ones that go in the ear and around, outside ranges on a slow day with very few ppl would be best too. Also heavier guns have less recoil than light ones. >

Not a very big gun person. How does the recoil work so that bigger guns have less recoil? Is it compensated because of the size of the gun itself? >

Is the weight of the gun cancels out the recoil >

Can confirm.  My 50 bmg kicks less than my 308.  One gun is 36lbs and the other is 8lbs.  50 bmg is around 15,000 ftlbs of energy vs 2700flbs for the 308. >

Yeah my buddy had the 32 pound m82 with a 29inch barrel 50 And I can confirm that thing had less recoil than a 308 >

I'm not sure if people are missundertanding the post on purpose, but at least for me it is obviously implied that OP meams "use it against someone". >

I own lots of knives, I don't day-dream about the possibility of using them on other people. I dream about using them on rib-eye steaks. >

It’s okay to have like, anime level daydreams about fighting with knives and stuff. The difference is if you think you could actually do that. It’s the delusion that you could actually do that that’s questionable. >

Dude I can absolutely win a 10v1 home invasion with my chefs knives >

All gun owners I know love using their guns. Hunting/Shooting range, etc. >

Well Tbf a responsible gun owner practices to be a proficient shooter because it eliminates the risk to shooting anyone else that you don’t want to >

Or they use it every hunting season, plus maybe off-season at the range. >

Yeah, probably more like this >

unless it's subsistence hunting and they hunt wild game for food >

Or any kind of hunting. >

Man, I grew up in a rural community with guns in living room display cases. For hunting and for bear protection. >

Careful now, I got downvoted for mentioning hunting. OP clarifies later in the comments that they meant against another person, but that was unclear from the post. >

Well, Rickety Cricket didn't seem amused by hunting. >

I just watched that literally an hour ago