Did you miss all the arguments about guns are actually recreational tools? Man may be “The Most Dangerous Game”, but game nonetheless.
Or so I’ve been told.
And you seldom shoot your girlfriend through the bathroom door, thinking she’s an intruder, with a pool.
OTOH, nobody ever said they wanted government small enough that they could shoot it in the bathtub.
I’m going to switch directions and note that homes with pools are statistically more dangerous for kids than homes with guns.
I don’t have a problem with guns. I have a problem with gun nuts, gun idiots, and gun liars.
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Plus, I can quit anytime.
Not since college, but let’s be honest, no one really knows what they are doing at that age.
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No, but you need the freedom to do so. Plus the freedom to require a warrant before having you or your house searched, the freedom to speak your mind and assemble with who you want, the freedom to not be forced to incriminate yourself. It is called “The Constitution.” Look it up.
I don’t fear guns, I fear people like you who have a fetish for them and make bizarre, absurd and silly arguments in favor of lax gun regulation. Hey, since all things are inherently equally dangerous and lethal to you, then we should be arming the military with ‘detergent pods’…
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And to follow the logic further, we should allow anyone who wants rocket launchers, hand grenades and suitcase nuclear weapons to have those too. :-/
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I don’t have a fetish, I have a hobby. And my point is that most peoples fears and perceived notions about guns is because they have zero real world experience with them. I am trying to put their dangers in perspective with things most people have regular contact with.
But the problem is that the vast majority of people DO NOT have regular contact with firearms. They are weird and freak people out. People act weird around them.
Yeah well, you can say that about a lot of things you are irrationally uncomfortable with. You can try to show people they are just like you, or let them keep to their safe biases.
Stereotyping is wrong in every other category in life. I am just trying to broaden some horizons.
By comparing guns to swimming pools?
I don’t imagine you’ve managed to broaden anyone’s horizons here.
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That homes with swimming pools were more likely to have an accidental death than those with firearms I found was a very interesting statistic.
While people do use some caution around pools, they don’t illicit the same fear response and people aren’t building giant lobby groups to limit them. Sort of the level of danger doesn’t equal the response. I guess I find that relevant, sorry you don’t.
Of course we do that with all sorts of things. The money we give for diseases isn’t proportional to the number of people affected and killed.
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So, have you given any consideration to answering my question? Why can’t I get you to “reluctantly acknowledge” that there really aren’t that “many uses” for a handgun?
well, the competition is stiffer than you might imagine. the winning entries for the IOCCC are frankly terrifying.
NO ONE has ever said that all lives don’t matter. You’re arguing against a strawman.
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Handgun sports are probably the most popular. You can do them indoors and out doors, so you can do them all year around. From SAS western style shooting, to one handed Bullseye, to the fast paced IPSC and USPSA.
Certainly there are a lot of hanguns made for things like home defense and conceal carry. But there are also a ton of the full sized ones made for defense and sport. And then there are the fancy ones with the special triggers, barrel porting, extra large magazine wells, and red dot sights that are made to give one a competing edge.
So yeah, while I don’t know about “many uses”, handguns are used for defense (just in case) but so many are actually used for sport an informal shooting.
Or your point being they are the ones most often used in crimes? Yes that is true too.
I suppose that’s not surprising, given your reflexive defense of widespread gun ownership, and your accompanying lack of concern for deaths like that of the OP’s careful-but-still-dead mother.
Sigh…
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I’m sorry she was killed. I don’t know if different precautions might have prevented the accident, but I can’t think of any additional laws that would have prevented it.
I suppose some people would say “just don’t allow CCW”. So you penalize everyone because of one person’s accident? That makes no sense at all. Sorry.
Maybe I am missing something, did you have a solution?
Don’t carry a gun where a two year old can get hold of it and play with it?
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