• We are now running on a new, and hopefully much-improved, server. In addition we are also on new forum software. Any move entails a lot of technical details and I suspect we will encounter a few issues as the new server goes live. Please be patient with us. It will be worth it! :) Please help by posting all issues here.
  • The forum will be down for about an hour this weekend for maintenance. I apologize for the inconvenience.
  • If you are having trouble seeing the forum then you may need to clear your browser's DNS cache. Click here for instructions on how to do that
  • Please review the Forum Rules frequently as we are constantly trying to improve the forum for our members and visitors.

a well-written essay answering "why do you need a gun"

MKEgal

Regular Member
Joined
Jan 8, 2010
Messages
4,383
Location
in front of my computer, WI
http://www.gunlaws.com/NewtownOrEverytown.htm

...a self-described "anti-gun woman legislator" writes to me as an expert, for the fifth time, asking, "You still haven't explained to me why anyone needs a gun that shoots multiple bullets in a few seconds." This, as if it's my job to explain to her how life works, or how guns work, or why police prefer these guns, or why people do too for the exact same reasons as police.
...
[gun control] is still being promoted, yes promoted, by a twisted "news" media, once again promoting its decades-old agenda to curtail America's unique civil right to arms*, using tragedy as the motivator...

devastating human loss isn't the issue, and neither is unspeakable tragedy. You are concerned with how many bullets because that's what you are being told to care about...

You ask about the need for such guns. This is hard for a lot of people. Piers brags that he doesn't get it. Are you ready? In a free country like ours, ownership of property is not based on need.
 
Top