95% of gun homicides are. I’m going to assume that the percentage for suicides is even more slanted towards handguns.
I didn’t think this was controversial, but whatever. Throw your hat in with the undergrad student who thinks making hunters check out hunting rifles is a good use of taxpayer funds if you want. I’m not so married to this cause that I’m going to hitch my wagon to stupid.
A refreshing change from Florida Man: Colorado Man Shoots Own Foot To See How That Feels
When exactly did we give up on that quaint idea of “Government of the People, by the People, for the People”, and start regarding the public as something to be “policed”?
Hope you had a good day today.
From our friend Thomas Paine - so when? A long ass time ago.
I also tell my friends when they are being (unintentionally) racist.
Do you just blow smoke up your friends’ asses or do you tell them when they are being irrational?
How does it matter what the purpose is? The risk of death or injury from some crazy person with a car while you are walking alongside a busy street is comparable to the risk of death or injury from a crazy person with a gun. Except we don’t do background checks before we let someone buy a car.
You don’t have to be a rancher to need a gun.
You can be a woman that travels alone.
You can be a storeowner during a riot.
You can be a human being that wants an effective means of self defense against larger or multiple assailants.
The list is endless.
And it is this sort of generalization that makes gun control folks seem like bigots.
How is accusing someone of having an irrational fear of guns comparable to accusing people of being sexually aroused by guns?
Cops aren’t your personal security detail. As the saying goes, when seconds count, the police only a few minutes away.
Were guns necessary to the Korean storeowners during the LA riots? Or should they have relied on the cops that were driving through the rioters on their way to protect the homes in bel air and Beverly hills?
They are both just name-calling designed to raise support from peers.
And they both sound like they refer to fluffy bunnies rather than guns.
Hmmm…I was envisioning kangaroos all this time.
I think hoplophobia is an useful description of the irrational fear that some people have of guns.
Hoplophilia is just potty humor.
Not very useful if it’s also indiscriminately applied to the **rational **fear that some people have of guns.
Are you pretending that you don’t know that “hoplophobia” was created as pejorative, or are you thinking that we are too stupid to know it? Either way, it doesn’t make you look very good.
I own several guns, and none of them are “purposed” to kill people. I shoot animals and eat them. I find eating to still be rather necessary even in this modern age.
I don’t even know how to respond to the final sentence. Are you saying ranchers are “low lifes”(sic) or are you just trying to stir up shit?
You have guns that were actually designed to kill something other than people? Are they handguns or hunting rifles?
Who said anything about design? BobDipShit said “purpose”, but let’s go with design.
I have a .410 shotgun, it was designed to shoot rabbits. It even has a rabbit engraved into the receiver in case I should forget what I’m looking for.
I have a .22 rifle, it was designed to shoot, umm, small things, with small bullets. I use mine to shoot holes in paper. I don’t even have the decency to use paper targets with pictures of people on them, like a proper low-life gun nut, just little circles.
I have a 12 gauge shotgun. It was designed to shoot lots and lots of little tiny balls really fast. Probably would work on people, but as far as I can tell it was designed to shoot birds and that is the purpose for which I use it. That and clay pigeons.
I have a bolt action .30-06 rifle. It was designed to shoot rather large bullets with considerable accuracy over long ranges. I haven’t asked the folks at Sako if they designed it to shoot people, but my guess is that they would say that it probably wasn’t an element of the design criteria. I use mine to shoot whitetail deer and elk. And a woodchuck once.
Hunting rifles. O.K.-Totally not designed to kill human beings.
I’m not sure if you’re being sarcastic (even given your username ;)), but I would like to once again point out that BobDimBulb said “purpose”, not “design”. None of my guns have the purpose of killing people. I did not purchase them with that intent, that is not the purpose for which I own them, regardless of their potential efficacy toward that end.