Given the attitude on display here I'm not convinced that was a bad thing. People are in here trying to give you legitimate life saving advice and you're telling them all to go fuck themselves. Gun ownership is not for everyone. Hell I'd argue it's not for most people. That's why I don't own one, but I know how to use them and I'm very up to speed on firearm safety.

First guy was being an asshole but had one good point about training, because the majority of gun owners have a rifle or a pistol locked in a closet and they've never fired a round out of it. That is a recipe for disaster in one of several ways.

It's not my place to insist that you shouldn't have a firearm, and I'm not going to do so. I will say that your attitude surrounding the subject has been very poor and alarming. A simple "I know what I'm doing, thanks" would have sufficed but instead when faced with well meaning advice your response is to immediately start calling everyone names and telling them to go fuck themselves. If someone in my community had a firearm and this attitude alongside it I would feel extremely unsafe around them.

I also admit that when responded to in such a manner I also became a bit of a jackass and you have my apology for that. I shouldn't have taken the bait. But this whole exchange has not been a good look for you. I'm not going to press this any further though.