RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
October 18, 2014 at 6:59 am
(This post was last modified: October 18, 2014 at 7:08 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I don't think that the solution to jackasses with guns is to encourage the private citizen to buy a gun himself, so that he might be more competently equipped to engage in a firefight with his neighbor.
The notion that having a gun somehow solves the problem of someone else (someone dumb/crazy/drunk/criminal) having a gun is ridiculous on it's face. Now you have two jackasses with guns. Ones a nut as per the scenario, and the other one got a gun explicitly to be able to shoot people with it, so...also, in my mind, a nut. Problem compounded, not solved. I doubt that either is a very good shot, so now you have twice as many jackasses shooting at each other, twice as many bullets flying randomly into everything -except- the target, and twice as much potential for collateral damage of the kindergartener variety. What about this sounds like a good idea?
(and since you're new to the thread.....I'm one of the pro-gun guys round these parts, I don't think that our guns should be legislated away either - even if they were, I wouldn't hand mine in even for a buyback over market value, I'd bury them)
The notion that having a gun somehow solves the problem of someone else (someone dumb/crazy/drunk/criminal) having a gun is ridiculous on it's face. Now you have two jackasses with guns. Ones a nut as per the scenario, and the other one got a gun explicitly to be able to shoot people with it, so...also, in my mind, a nut. Problem compounded, not solved. I doubt that either is a very good shot, so now you have twice as many jackasses shooting at each other, twice as many bullets flying randomly into everything -except- the target, and twice as much potential for collateral damage of the kindergartener variety. What about this sounds like a good idea?
(and since you're new to the thread.....I'm one of the pro-gun guys round these parts, I don't think that our guns should be legislated away either - even if they were, I wouldn't hand mine in even for a buyback over market value, I'd bury them)
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