Why More Americans Want to Own Guns

[God of Mr. Hanky]

I'm not comfortable being in a house or around person with a firearm.

How can you justify that, when you have been invited in? Would you enter the house of one who appears to be drunk or unstable anyway? Are you aware that half of the quaint, proprietary business owners which you patronize while on vacation in the countryside keep guns behind the counter? They need to, and if they are alive and in business they do know how to handle them safely because law enforcement is spread too thin there. You never know who owns a gun or has one in close proximity, but when people who think like you see one in somebody's house, then all of a sudden the owner is a dangerous monster. Then so are half the objects in the house, should you escalate an argument to the point of belligerence. He may use his dick as a weapon! Therefore, you should choose with care the sort of people whose abode or private establishments you enter in with, and if they seem to be decent and safe people before you saw that double-barrel shotgun mounted over the fireplace, then they probably still are after you saw it. If machine guns are mounted all over the walls, then this may indicate an obsessive personality which is potentially dangerous, especially if the eyes are particularly dead compared to those who collect model trucks.

I ideally favor a complete blanket ban on gun ownership with exception of single shot hunting rifles and a massive tax-hike on bullets; I know it will never happen. I am willing to settle on a more toned down version of it though.

You should be aware of the fact that no type of gun can do harm if the firing pin is removed. As for handguns, if you think nobody other than cops need them, then you don't understand life outside of your urban neighborhood. I happen to live in an urban development now, and since I've lost my interest in hunting and target shooting I don't own a gun anymore, but this situation is not so for many US citizens, and their rights need to be respected.

 Is there is a rational need for semi-automatic firearms? Na, there is not need for anything more powerful then a shotgun for home defense. Hand guns, shot guns, and hunting rifles should be the only type allowed by law to be owned by Americans.

Is there really a need for people to collect model trucks? Probably not. Guns are a hobby for some, and any gun is safe if sold without a firing pin. You may find the sort of person with more of an interest in weapons than trucks to be dead-eyed and scary, and in my experience this is the case, but you can't change the fact that such people do exist. If a gun hobby is what keeps the scary dude in the basement taking care of his "babies" instead of out on the street killing people, then I am very much in favor of allowing him to have whatever his money can buy on his own property, so long as it doesn't violate zoning laws, and the potentially dangerous items are de-weaponized. Just because he's got a missile launcher on his front lawn doesn't mean that it could actually launch a missile, if he could actually obtain rounds for it. Also, your town doesn't have to live with missile launchers on neighbor's front lawns, you can deal with this in your zoning laws!

Also as well a 20% percent tax on bullets.

How the fuck can you justify a tax on bullets? That's just utterly stupid, to punish poor farmers and sustenance hunters - oh yeah, there really are regions of the US where people actually live that way! How much good sense do you really think it makes to discourage target shooting, which is essential for the safe handling of any gun which anyone may actually need to use?