(August 27, 2015 at 12:37 pm)Exian Wrote: This is the disconnect I was talking about. I'm assuming you live in a densely populated area, if not then I'm wrong all the way around. I'm pretty uncomfortable with guns, but it's different in the country, and that's hard to get across. Guns have uses in the country other than to murder or protect yourself from humans. I think there should be a greater distinction placed on gun ownership in the city vs. the country when the discussion is brought up. And that goes for both sides of the argument. When a shooting occurs in some town or city, all my country friends get all up in arms about how it wasn't the guns fault, or how they have to pay for the mistakes of the few. They aren't even considering the type of gun used or the location, and they end up defending handgun ownership in densely populated areas.
I honestly don't see what difference it makes and what bearing it really has when there's countries that exist that have sparsely populated areas. Plenty of people cope just fine without guns in such places. Saying "they have uses other than to murder people" is besides the point entirely if they end up being used for such.
Or are you suggesting that guns in the country are immune to being used as such? Because that's obviously a big wad of horseshit.
Your point doesn't really make much difference from what I can see.
