(April 16, 2014 at 2:56 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote:(March 31, 2014 at 8:24 pm)ShaMan Wrote: The only things guns are good for are...
But I digress...
- Taking life.
- Wielding a false sense of control.
- Causing terror.
- Increasing war and violence.
- Making cash for gun companies and special interest groups.
- Destroying the pride of humanity.
That's a pretty Guns Aren't Necessary in the Vegan Coffeeshop in the City I Never Leave so Nobody Else Should Have Them approach.
* Target practice
* Hunting for subsistence
* Defense against predators
* For teaching responsibility
(Then again, I'm biased having shot compound, recurve bows and guns since I was 9 or 10)
So? What does your list have to do with a flooded market created by assholes who don't care about how many flood our society? If we had 31,000 people dying from West Nile virus every year we would damned sure work to reduce it.
In a perfect utopia your list would not bother me. But the fact is 300 million guns, both legal and illegal, ARE causing problems because they are made like candy and handed out like candy. Guns are not candy but the manufactures insist on marketing them like candy.
America is not at a point in history where "lets make more" and "leave it as it is" is pragmatic. If there were not 31,000 gun deaths per year we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Your rights are NOT the issue. Any big business CEO, not just gun manufacture's, but any big business CEO will tell you their job is to keep and or expand the market. Now, if they keep making them at the rate they do it will get to 500 million, then a billion. Do you really think we need all of that floating around? And do you think more guns will cause less gun death?
If we lived in a Utopia I would not care at all, but in the real world our amount of gun death, with both legally and illegally purchased guns is unacceptable to me.