Guns are good and criminals are bad. It's not so much an argument as a fact.
With a closet of guns myself, I was against gun legislation - but the escalating violence and aggression by gun zealots has pushed me to the other side of that fence. Been a while since I've heard any feel-good stories about guns being the saving grace in the hand of a 'good' person, but way too many innocents being gunned down.
The second never gave a right to gun ownership aside from milita need.
With the events of the last couple of years and with world events being what they currently are, gun ownership has only increased and will likely continue in that direction.
Really? Can you show me where you've called for the abolition of car ownership due to drunk drivers? What about the removal of every man's penis because of rape? Do you blame the knife or the surgeon when someone dies on the operating table? Do you blame salt or the person that consumes so much that it kills them?
It's not the "gun zealots" that are the problem. They aren't the one's committing the overwhelming majority of the mass shootings. You do know that don't you? Don't you?
Truly responsible gun ownership is not the problem. It is easy access to guns of all types to people of all types. Buying and owning a gun does not make one responsible!
Guns are death multipliers. It's like someone with homicidal thoughts going wild as in the La Vagas shooting, 58 were killed shooting from a hotel window perch. How many were injured if he only had a knife? It is no longer the nuts and criminals around us, but the technological advantages they possess.
Condescending patronization and oblique comparisons will not ingratiate many to the thinking that a device with the sole purpose of killing is a good thing. So many of us do not even realize that Americans have been groomed into the gun culture from early childhood. The world is vastly different than it was in the Wild West, which actually had more gun laws and restrictions than there are today.
There's nothing illogical or false about my questions at all. But I accept that your double standards exist.
Can you show me where I said that guns are good things?
What is it about the US that makes mass murders of innocents like this so frequent? I'm not talking about gang violence or robberies I am talking about the mass murder of innocent people going about their lives at parades, movie theatres, concerts, grocery stores etc? Every country has nut cases, violent movies, single-parent families and mental illness but only the US has this terrible phenomenon. What is the only thing different than all the other western countries? Easy access to guns fostered by a deeply rooted gun culture.
Tell that to the 4th of July participants in this parade to celebrate this wonderfully patriotic country by pacing back and forth in the E.R. waiting to find out if their wives, husbands, and children will live.
"Only America has cultural corruption" is a strange take.
