De-activated!!!!!!!!!!!

[Fred G.]

To me it's like owning a live horse or a stuffed horse. The stuffed horse can be owned by a person whose land lord won't allow living livestock on one's property. It won't ever need feed, medical attention, to be cleaned up after or cared for. One can put a saddle on it and climb up on it and sit, while pretending that it's a living horse they're sitting on while they enjoy the imagined feel of sitting in the saddle on a live horse. Or one can live in a place that allows one to own, raise, ride and care for living horses. I suppose that given the option to having nothing, being able to at least have a stuffed horse in your living room or out in your yard would certainly appeal to some. Sadly, not everyone in the world is allowed to have a living horse, least of all a stuffed one. Some can only look at horses in pictures or go to a zoo or a ranch to observe them. Same way with guns. Some are allowed to own a non functioning deactivated gun and others aren't even allowed to do that. They are told it's for their own good of course...and for the good of their society according to their laws. After awhile, the people under those laws are just grateful that they can own a stuffed horse...or a deactivated firearm.