Don't shoot the messenger

2008-02-07

This somehow got into the Dark World offices. Thought it was pretty funny..

GUNAHOLICS ANNONYMOUS

1 - Do you wish people would mind their own business about guns-- stop telling you what to do??In G.A. we do not tell anyone to do anything. We just talk about our own guns, the trouble we got into, and how we stopped using them. We will be glad to help you, if you want us to.

2 - Have you ever switched from one kind of gun to another in the hope that this would keep you from shooting??We tried all kinds of guns. We got smaller guns. Or just used pea shooters. Or we did not shoot pistols. Or only shot on weekends. You name it, we tried it. But if we shot anything with bullets in it, we usually got wasted eventually.

3 - Do you envy people who can shoot things without getting into trouble??At one time or another, most of us have wondered why we were not like most people, who really can take guns or leave guns.

4 - Have you had problems connected with guns during the past year??Be honest! Sharpshooters say that if you have a problem with guns and keep on shooting, it will get worse -- never better. Eventually, you will die, or end up in an institution for the rest of your life. The only hope is to stop shooting.

5 - Do you hide guns around the house?
Many of us kidded ourselves into thinking that we used guns because we wanted to. After we came into G.A., we found out that once we started to shoot, we couldn't stop.

6 - Do you watch shooting and gun orientated films to escape reality?
Most of us in G.A. tried to watch all kinds of films by ourselves and with our families. We could not watch them. Then we came to G.A. G.A. said: "Just try not to watch gun films today." (If you do not watch gun films today, you will not start thinking about shooting today.)

7 - Do you need a gun to feel like a man/woman?
If you need a gun to get started, or to stop shaking, it's a pretty sure sign that you are not shooting "socially."

8 - Do you find yourself thinking about guns at inappropriate times, like when your spouse is talking to you or your child is screaming?
Before we came into G.A., most of us said that it was the people or problems at home that made us use guns. We could not see that our shooting just made everything worse. It never solved problems anywhere or anytime.

9 - Do you ever try to get "extra" guns at a dealer because you do not own enough??Most of us used to buy a "few" before we started out if we thought it was going to be that kind of day. And if guns were not exchanged fast enough, we would go some place else to get more.

10 - Do you have "shoot-outs"??A "shoot-out" is when we have been using guns for days which we cannot remember. When we came to G.A., we found out that this is a pretty sure sign of gunaholic shooting.

11 - Have you missed days of work or school because of guns??Many of us admit now that we "called in sick" lots of times when the truth was that we were on a shoot-out.

12 - Have you ever felt that your life would be better if you did not own a gun??Many of us started to use guns because shooting made life seem better, at least for a while. By the time we got into G.A., we felt trapped. We were shooting to live and living to shoot. We were sick and tired of being sick and tired.



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