Another gun thread...

[Ryantology]

People's safety should be above the right to own a gun as far as I'm concerned.

You'd think that would be self-evident. I guess it's hard to get over being paranoid of a government you could never realistically defend yourself against in combat no matter how many guns you own, or of all the criminals who can only threaten you with guns they can easily access because you insist on having easy access to them. It must be hard to accept that the safety of gun ownership is mostly an illusion.

I have yet to see a single convincing argument in favor of unlimited and virtually unregulated gun ownership. What I see is people claiming that M16s and garden hoes are equally dangerous weapons with what I can only assume is a straight face, defending the Second Amendment with the same principled fervor as a theist (or A Theist) defending good ol' JFC, and in general blaming everything else under the sun for gun violence when it is suggested that perhaps the guns are part of the problem. We live in a country where random massacres happen all the time and we consider it taboo to have a proper discussion regarding what to do about it.