A Gun can Damage Your Heart as Much as the Heart of the Person You Would Shoot

   The gun becomes an enemy to society when it becomes its best friend. When society honors it too much is when it should fear it the most.
   It is an instrument of death; place it not on a pedestal.
   Speak not with pride of how it can rip out the heart of another person, for if you find pride in the act of administering death, the gun has stirred up the dark side in you. An inanimate object? Think not that that means it can weld no power over you. Its power will come as you are tempted to find joy in what it might do to another person.
   If you find yourself expressing joy at the thought of stopping an intruder dead with a shot to his heart, know that the inanimate object does have a real influence and it is welding it for the worse on you. It can change your heart and damage it as much as it can damage the heart of the person you would shoot.
  With the gun, comes the attitude.
   Not always, but too often we start adopting feelings of joy with what the gun can do. True, those feelings are for what it can do to intruders, assaulters and other forms of criminals. But, just the same, it is feelings of hate the gun is extracting from us, if we let it.
   Wise is the gun owner who fears his own weapon, who buys it for protection, but loathes that it should ever have to be used.