Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: 5 Year Old Finds Grandma's Gun On Bed - The End [View all]EdwardBernays
(3,343 posts)Seen a gun owner advocate for gun control other than removing howitzers from playgrounds sort of nonsense.
I have had hundreds of conversations over the years about guns and it's never happened. There's always an excuse that explains away why removing guns isn't the answer.
So...
As for your opinion that the amount of good doesn't justify taking away toys from gun owners and Weapons from criminals, we'll agree to disagree.
I'd love a constitutional amendment removing all guns from the public and from the police - except for swat type groups.
I personally don't give a shit about the rights of gun owners to own deadly weapons. I care aot more about the thousands that die at the end of a gun each year.
As for the idea that all dangerous items are created equally - that's just silly. Saying a gun is as valuable to society as say an ambulance (handy for rushing children shot with gun to the hoslital) is obviously false. Yes both can cause harm, but if the main argument for ambulances was that you can use them to protect yourself from other ambulances well... You see my point.
Guns are an anachronism in 2016 and demanding access to them in the face of endless death and destruction "because guns" is IMO as stupid as anything Sarah Palin - another gun nut - has said or will ever say.