(December 31, 2014 at 5:30 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: As I have said in other related threads, I do not understand why any normal member of the public would ever want or need to possess a firearm.I dunno about need, but many people find them fun for target shooting. Most gun owners observe the necessary precautions. The number of accidental gun deaths in the USA would number in the hundreds of thousands, otherwise.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould