... and nope, I'd rather be cut up and maybe die then shoot one of my own kids.
I've been in rough situations, but never once would me, hunter-with-a-gun have improved the outcome. I don't have any fantasies like that. Even when other people have had guns. Even when people were bleeding. I like to think in a war setting I'd be like my father-in-law. He was a Marine medic. His job was to patch people up, not shoot them. That's how they made him a medic. He said "no thanks" to guns.
My mom's dad went beyond that and was a Conscientious Objector during World War II. The U.S. government gave him a choice, prison or use his welding skills to build Liberty and Victory Ships. He built ships. (My mom's family tradition is draft dodging war hating pacifist. That's how they ended up in the U.S.A. "Wild West." The immigrants among them were dodging wars and religious persecution in Europe, and later the U.S. Civil War.)
I can be cold and extremely focused "just the facts" when I need to be. My wife and my sister are even better at that, as frequent and highly trained and licensed medical first responders, but I'm the sort who throws up in the bushes or nearest sink or trash can as soon as the immediate crisis is past, and then I have nightmares for years.
No thanks. I like to avoid trouble.
Gun fetishists are either clueless and inexperienced in such things, or psychopaths.
I've known and know quite a few combat veterans who have actually shot and killed people. They don't talk about their guns, mostly because they are happy to be home in a place where they don't need guns to feel safe. I've worked twice for bosses who lived through insane shit in Vietnam, and I'm friends with another. They don't talk about it. World War II vets tend to be the same.
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