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Both belong to the NRA, not because they agree with what they call the "right-wing lunatics" running the organization, but mostly because they like the mailers and Second Amendment literature the group offers.
They pride themselves on being responsible gun owners -- they take regular trips to the range to practice and always keep the bullets separate from the guns. It's just, they say, that they have too many friends who have been raped and abused to allow themselves to fall victim to anyone.
"Not only am I female, it is real obvious, unless you're blind, that I'm gay. I have been harassed more often than I care to think about," said B.C., a 43-year-old personal trainer who has won trophies in bodybuilding competitions. "If all of a sudden it becomes apparent that I'm not going to be able to have a gun at home and you decide to follow me all the way home, well, I'm not looking forward to that at all."
It is unknown exactly how many handguns exist in San Francisco, because the state does not require owners to have a license or permit for their handguns, and many weapons are bought and sold illegally.
From 2000 to 2004, there were 4,235 handguns sold legally in San Francisco County, according to the California attorney general's office.
Those who favor banning handguns in the city say that too many innocent people are shot in gun accidents and that handguns are often used in suicides.
They say criminals often get guns by robbing law-abiding gun owners.
Hurst denounces all those arguments, saying that there are simply too many guns out there to ban them all and that having a weapon levels the playing field against an attacker, who is likely to be armed.
"Assuming I'd be able to make a 911 call in the first place, you're looking at six or seven minutes realistically before police can get here," Hurst said. "You can get killed many times over in that length of time."
"Or raped and maimed and then killed," B.C. added.
If the lawsuit against the ban fails, handgun owners in the city may surrender their weapons to the police by April 1 without penalty; the law doesn't apply to rifles and shotguns.
The couple say they'll abide by the law and will ask a friend in another city to watch over their handguns.
"I will let go of my handgun," Hurst said, "and buy another rifle."
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What will they do when they want the rifles turned in to?
But are thses things really a big suprize forthe 2in the story? I would bet sf is not a very gun friendly place& those passing the laws where elected to office by them also?
What city is next?- anyone who puts antigun polticans into office &whopasses antifirearms laws.
I bet they will vote hilerly too& did billy& fienstien etc
They belong to the nra- but it saysbut dont share the right wing extremistsleaders views?
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Well when those they vote for take there rifles too - they can get a bat like in nyc or pepperspray in dc?( but that could be illegal too?)
But they do have those speical/federal hate crime laws to- that should help some? (gun/ppl control is a progressive disease/urban metosexual/liberal- blue fungus?)
Maybe they should pull out of Sf*Dc,nyc& thoseother citys- all those laws* & antigun laws make them dangerious places tobeit seems.
They could move to mass?Or outside the city.
What city is next
