paulsol wrote:
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Ok, stupid. If I go with your analogy, then we should ban planes. Right? Because it's not the terrorists and criminals misusing the guns or the planes that we should go after, but the guns and the planes themselves.
Its not meant to be an anology.
I was pointing out the irony (pointless it would seem to a person whose mind runs on rails) in the situation where you managed to get yourselves all wound up so tight that you managed to allow yourselves to get talked into
illegally invading the wrong country to get revenge for 9/11 and the 3000 deaths that occurred, and yet you manage to be quite content with the 30 odd thousand deaths caused
by yourselves upon
yourselves, to the point that you will argue till you're blue in the face, that guns are a desirable part of US life.
Like I said earlier. Its not guns that kill people. Its Americans with guns that kill people.
Or to put it a bit simpler for the hard of thinking.....
There is something fundamentally wrong with a society that thinks nipples are bad and freedom comes out of the barrel of a gun.
First, the war on Iraq had very little to do with 9/11. You and I and everyone else knows that. And generally speaking, educated Americans never really supported the war on Iraq. It was a stupid president with a one-tracked mind and his mindless colleagues who convinced a small minority of people that it was a just cause. You cannot pin that mistake on the general public and certainly not me, so it really bears little relevance to my stance on gun ownership.
Second, 57% of that 30,000 killed themselves. I don't give a rat's *** if someone wants to take their own life, and I'm certainly not going to give up my rights and my freedoms just to make it harder for them to do so. Less idiots in this world is, generally speaking, a solution to most of our problems anyway.
I do have a problem with people who misuse guns to harm others, but unlike you, I'm smart enough to realize that it's the people using the guns that cause the problem, and not the guns themselves. The fact that the number of deaths caused by handguns amounts to less than one tenth of a percent of all privately owned firearms in this country is a testament to the fact that people here generally know how to be safe and responsible with guns. A few bad seeds is not going to convince me to give up a freedom that I fully enjoy to appease the uneducated folk who think that making guns illegal will somehow solve the problem of those who illegally obtain them in the first place and use them to commit acts which are already prohibited by law.
Examples of why this line of thinking is a complete failure in intelligence can be found in:
Marijuana
Alcohol
Cocaine
PCP
Meth
LSD
etc...
Making something illegal doesn't make it go away, especially in America, no matter how much you wish that might be the case.
Edited, Oct 28th 2008 3:06pm by BrownDuck
