("I used to hunt, I've seen what guns can do")
and you always add... "In the hands of a miscreant/ner-do-well/eeeeevil-doer"... right? (j/k)
My big sister, who grew up in the same house as I (Dad has a gun or two) is vehemently anti... for no particular reason that I know of. She works for the EPA and is allowed to carry (field work... oil spills, etc) and now that Dad is old, has emphysema and has a limited time left, has decided that she must have some of the firearms that were/are supposed to be left to moi... to remember Dad by. He's somewhat torn on the issue as they've had words... serious words... on the subject over the years. i.e., after she got divorced/2 kids, she came back to live with mom and dad and gave him uber hard time about guns in the house with Her kinder living there... sigh.
I've never seen her hold one or known her to go shooting, even tho my little sister loves the "cowboy" guns that Dad has and will inherit several.
Dad and I discussed this and he asked my advice. I suggested he leave one or three of whichever he desire to my nephew and neice and take one older wall hanger, remove firing pin and leave to big sister for over the mantle in her home, thereby making it a safe club. Its a wall hanger only in that some Trap Door Springfield ammo is darned hard to find. (He has three, so don't freak too badly). Oh, and to give nephew the firing pin so that when big sis goes to that oil spill in the sky, nephew can "re-build" it to a working wall-hanger.
But then again, big sister won't eat meat either. Family get togethers are such fun ("Mom, make MY STEAK rare"
) I'm bad. Yet she'll eat chicken and shrimp
Some people's kids. Still and all I love her.
She has the classic Jeff Cooper defined "hoplophobia", a very un-natural fear of weapons (ex-60's hippy chick donchaknow).
Adios