MelatoninIt's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government.
Guns are naught but tools. They have no moral nor political ambition. All they can do is provide an amplifier of force, no matter your ideology.
starlingukOnly you don’t accidentally beat someone to death with a hammer.
Speak for yourself.
It’s a lot faster to do it with a car
You don’t accidentally shoot anyone either, it’s negligence.
In the US a gun is more likely to kill the owner or their family than anyone else.
I’m fairly sure ethe vast majority of those are accidental.
Well you’d be wrong, overwhelmingly the majority of those are suicides, followed by intentional homicides, and lastly negligence (you can try and remove the negligent party’s guilt by calling them accidents all you want, but the “accident” occurs through blatant negligence every time.)
You: Well you are wrong, because if you don’t count these gun deaths, then there are almost no gun deaths.
Did you not read what I replied to?
I’m fairly sure the vast majority of those are accidental.
Do you define intentional suicides and intentional homicides as accidents or are you being a snarky jackass without a license?
In the US a gun is more likely to kill the owner or their family than anyone else.
People living with handgun owners face twice the risk of homicide, study says
You didn’t even read that, did you? Thanks for proving my point.
Let’s not get tied up in semantics but the idea that you can’t “accidentally” shoot someone is nonsense. Whether you call it negligence or not, if it’s not on purpose, then it’s an accident.
Accident isn’t a harsh enough word.
They subscribe to the NRA falsehood about “guns don’t kill people etc.”. Such people are usually lost causes.