(March 30, 2015 at 1:50 am)Severan Wrote: 1. Nobody really cares about home security or self defense, they only like guns. None of them buy new high-tech padlocks or install secure doors or find efficient non-lethal methods of protecting themselves. They just like guns. It's not about defense, it's about these fun little machines that look cool but can kill.
False, in many cases.
Quote:Anyways, I would personally argue that firearms only instill fear and make it feel like a war zone. Any civilized intelligent human being would use rational discourse to solve a problem.
Try doing that with a dangerous animal when you live out in the country like I do.
Quote:These are not civilized, not intelligent, and their ability to have empathy is far from human. Just think about it: these people would rather have children die at schools than have their toys taken from them.
Misrepresenting a sizable swath of those who disagree with you is rarely a good argument.