Americans: You have te right to bear arms

[RawAlex]

Originally Posted by EmporerEJ

How naive is that? Just because you don't know it, I'll bet your dollars killed someone, somewhere. Drug raid? Drug war? Robbery? Who knows.....could'a been any of those things.

And my handguns have never been used for those purposes. Look at it this way....my guns were purchased "used." I have removed them from the potential damage stream, so I'm a "steward" of the weapons, keeping them safe.

But you'll spend those dollars, and they might kill someone. How would you know if someone else makes a decision with them after you don't control them anymore?

If you really wanted to be safe, wouldn't it be better to grind them up and turn them into something useful? My dollars have endless practical uses, same as a knife or car or any other thing that might also end up being part of someone dying. But it has a useful purpose not related to killing. Guns don't have that, their purpose is kill or threaten kill, nothing more and nothing less.

As a side note, you are only "steward" of the weapon until it is stolen from you, used against you by a family member, or what have you. If you transport it ever by car, the chance that you get carjacked or your car stolen or broken into... there are plenty of ways for your gun to end up in the hands of criminals. You don't control it for life, only while it is in your hand.

[EmporerEJ]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

As a side note, you are only "steward" of the weapon until it is stolen from you, used against you by a family member, or what have you. If you transport it ever by car, the chance that you get carjacked or your car stolen or broken into... there are plenty of ways for your gun to end up in the hands of criminals. You don't control it for life, only while it is in your hand.

Keep hoping....It ain't gonna happen. Hasn't happened in the last 2 decades, ain't gonna happen in the next 2.
Just love you "doom and gloom" guys...wanting to blame the tools for your own shortcomings.