Thread: NZ's battle over semi-automatics: Police frustrated by the law, firearm owners frustr

Originally Posted by norsk

It's quite a new World in a way.
I had a student working for me part time,when he discovered I owned guns he couldn't understand why I needed one or two.

He simply dismissed hunting and target shooting and would constantly fall back on "well you don't really needed it do you".

He is a product of a largely urbanized West,where the exposure to certain things in actuality are limited.

I had a similar conversation, I was working with some temporary labourers on a project, one of them in his early 20's.
The conversation turned to shooting, one of them asked how many guns I had.

I took a moment to tot up the total, and answered "nine".

"Why do you need nine guns?" (this delivered in a tone of self righteous astonishment)

I decided on the spur of the moment to go with an answer that would throw a spanner into his university educated intellect.

I looked him in the eye and said:" Because I'm insecure".

The conversation screeched to a halt.