Why More Americans Want to Own Guns

[God of Mr. Hanky]

Wrong. Just Igorantly Wrong!

Guns have multiple purposes, including as collectors items,  Rifles are handy for hunting and target practice. Pistols are good for stopping an attacker as quickly as you may need it for, at close range, and target practice. Repeating assault rifles may not be needed by most American citizens, although the further decline of our civilization may change that. Some people just enjoy their collector's hobby, and there's nothing wrong with that if they don't have ammo for it too. All of the above do come down to one thing which is shooting, but so it is no less with cars. Muscle cars are a bad breed of cars, which exist specifically to endanger and cause fear to millions of other Americans on our highways. Therefore, the argument stands.

Older guns as collectors items? Awesome in my book, especially because I'm a history buff. Those guns sit on a shelf. Doesn't negate my argument though, since those guns were once manufactured as weapons for the purpose of shooting. When they're bought and sold now they are meant to sit there and be appreciated...because using them like you'd use a modern gun would be a bad idea in most cases. As for the rest of your argument...you're literally supporting what I said. "Hunting" (shooting animals), "target practice" (shooting things), "stopping an attacker" (shooting people). Nothing that you've said negates my argument that guns are first and foremost deadly weapons. I never used this as a way of saying guns are bad and we should ban them. I used it to show that you can't compare things that are made to be weapons to things that are not made to be weapons.

And so? Target shooting is a great sport, so is biathlon. Also if you live in the country there is lots of practical reasons to own a gun, namely getting pests off your land and because it can take a really long time for highway patrol to get to your house. The key here isn't jumping to either extreme. If you wonna deal the gun problem itself, then you need common ground, none of this shrieking from the right or left. Also you need to deal with the gun lobby and money in politics.

Again, I was arguing against comparing guns to cars. Nothing more.

Again, you are wrong! Guns actually put food on some people's tables, and that means sustenance for many Americans of whom you've made it plain you have not considered. Muscle cars do none of that which a vehicle of more civil temperament cannot do just as well. Therefore, if you you are going to go about confiscating peoples' target pistols or hunting rifles which you decide are "unnecessary weapons", then you have to confiscate all the muscle cars first.

Your reasoning has never been anything other than shallow, and your tone always disrespectful around here, so I could really give a fuck what you think. Being the asshole that you are, you came in here and made the blunt argument that "guns are for shooting", with the obvious implication that they are made for killing people. You clearly don't know jack about what gun owners do with their guns. You've only made it clear that you've never considered whether a '22 would be useful for hunting game birds, why a shotgun is actually a practical option for this, nor the interest in target shooting, for which handguns offer much greater challenge. You never touched a gun in your life, did you? You can take your ignorant, arrogant attitude and go fuck yourself with it!