Are you nervous if you see a gun?

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Depends on who is holding it. I have a few relatives in the (legal) arms dealing business and in my area of origin guns are pretty normal and most people that I know that own one are well trained and qualified to own one. Now if I were at gunpoint, I'd be afraid, but guns in general only make me about as nervous as the person handling them.

Guns don't kill people, rappers do,
I seen it in a documentary on BBC2

I've been around guns my whole life. Shooting sports are a way of life for me. I'm as comfortable around firearms as automobiles...which are considerably more dangerous.

In the U.S. it is fairly easy to get a conceal and carry permit, and I keep a .38 revolver in my car. Shooting sports have always been part of my life as well so I am exceedingly comfortable around guns, even in the hands of criminals (as I have one too, and I use mine more efficiently)

Guns are so much a part of life for some in the U.S. that a large portion of my inheritance from my grandfather included about 30ish guns, and an AMAZING gun safe that costs more than my car!

No. My father collects pistols and I own one myself. You'll stop being scared if you spend enough time around them.

That would be silly since I own a glock 22 .40 S&W

We don't fear guns in America we embrace them!

If dick cheney is holding it.

Yeah, guns are a lot more restricted in europe. You have to have specific licenses or reasons to be even allowed to have one, and then only a select few jobs may even CARRY it in public.

So yes, seeing a gun except in the store front of a gun shop makes me nervous.

Not really. When I se eone, I just want it.

I'm really not exposed to guns. I know a few people who have one but I've never seen it. I've shot some before, I'm special, I know. Dont fuck with me because I'm actually a really good shot. With little guns anyway :) bang bang

doesn't bother me.. it's just a gun. Worst case scenario-I'll die. I have a licensed weapon too, but it's a shotgun.

Although i never happened to be at gunpoint myself, just a met a lot of bad people who carry guns.

I get nervous around most potential weapons, especially fire.

screw that a metal bat, a chainsaw and a machete lol .

I get slightly excited. I really want to get a pistol license but the only gun range near where I live shut down. It's a lot harder to get one in the UK but it's not impossible.

Sometimes. It's so hard to have a gun here that the people who have them are a bit dubious. Or they're police. Not that it's mutually exclusive.

There are several. Or is it three?

I don't like to look at the front of them.

It depends who is holding it.

There's very little that inspires fear in me, so no!

(Except bees. I hate bees)

Never seen one in real life so wouldn't know.

i ain't a scared of guns the police have them and my uncle has one who works for the PSNI as a Traffic Warden i have held guns a few times in my life the police and a man around the corner allowed me to hold their guns.

If it were someone I really trusted then I wouldnt be scared but with a stranger... Well you get the picture. Guns have never been my thing and the people around dont have them either. Not my cup of tea.

Coming from a guy who has been robbed at gun point twice, yes, I am terrified of guns.

I'm scared of anything that could end my contentiousness in a fraction of a second.

I use to love handling them and shooting them off until my 14 year old cousin was shot and killed now I don't even like seeing them

Er...if it's at my head.

This is a great question. I had a similar post recently because my boyfriend keeps a gun in our house. Honestly, I still find guns frightening, and unsettling, but if the gun is being used by a trained professional whom you trust, there isn't tooo much to be worried about.

I've never actually seen one, but if I saw one here in Ireland, I'd be terrified!

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I actually feel safer around police officers, especially in unsafe areas. I do not get nervous when around police, security guards, soldiers, etc. However, when I see a gun or any other weapon being handled by some random stranger, that's scary!