Hi, have to put my two cents in about the "discourse" about guns... STOP MAKING FOOLISH ARGUMENTS! Guns are not inherently bad, but they are EXTREMELY easy to use tools that provide far more negative than positive. I am not saying people cannot handle guns, I just have to admit because I have some logic in my head that if guns are easily available then people die more often. Nutjobs with knifes don't kill dozens at a time.
By your logic about guns not being the issue, would you allow everyone to have nuclear weapons??? They are no worse inherently than guns, but we can recognize that if they fall into the wrong hands that many people could die senselessly. How many people have died senselessly from guns? Far more than from nuclear weapons. It just makes so little sense to defend the second amendment. The purpose was to appease those who thought their guns provided safety. This was before the age of professional around the clock security/policing, before the age of the massive federal defense spending, and certainly it was before the point where guns became useless of defending the rights of men against the government.
No weapon in the hands of any citizen will do anything to the U.S. Armed forces if it was necessary to fight the government. (please don't let me try to stop you if you want to test this...) The only practical purpose guns have is hunting, and we don't even need to do that anymore. The second Amendment didn't even help right after it was created! Check out Shays' Rebellion, though I will refrain from citing WIKIPEDIA in my argument and leave it up to you to check it out as I know that is where you will go. Stop the red haring fallacies folks. I guess guns do make you look pretty cool and can make you feel like a big action star. Yet Batman, Wolverine, Superman, and Spider-Man is way cooler than the Punisher. Hell, even Legolas and Hawkeye were better than Punisher. I guess you lose all the debates gunners.
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