[quote=CA renter][quote=FlyerInHi]Ocrenter touched on an important point.
There is definitely a gun culture in America. People arent using guns to defend shit.
They just want their toys.
I have guns because of my peers. Wish I had bought many more guns because they are worth a lot money. But I’m pretty indifferent to the issue.
Some people feel very strongly about their toys. It’s a manly man cultural thing.
But really, who says that guns can’t be taxed and registered? We have right to property in America but if we don’t pay property taxes, the government will take our land.
Furthermore, when the framers of the constitution wrote it, the gun technology we have today did not exist. What’s the definition of a gun anyway?
There are many way to interpret the constitution.[/quote]
Wow. Talk about a load of hysterical nonsense. I’m female (and have been a victim of violent criminals, so not a manly-man thing), and am also a staunch defender of our right to own guns. I have used guns in self-defense, but this was never reported because they were never discharged, BTW, so those statistics don’t count in the data for guns used in self-defense — and this is very common. I have NEVER considered the ownership of guns to be anything like owning “toys” or some other kind of status symbol. Your perspective about gun owners is horribly warped.[/quote]
If somebody owns a single gun with just a few rounds of ammo, locked up but in an easily accessible location in the event of an armed break-in (which is extremely rare), ok, that’s self defense. But most gun owners have multiple types of firearm, and a lot of them stockpile ammo as well. That’s what you call a toy collection. No one is trying to limit gun ownership of the self defense type. But the profit from the gun industry is coming from the toy collectors, so to protect their profit, they pull out the single woman gun owner living alone needing a gun to protect herself. Nicely played, the toy makers are happy, the toy collectors are happy, what more can you ask for?
