Kid Kills Dad

Originally posted by apathist
You must be wrong with your second point. If guns served no useful purpose, then people would not massively produce them.

Yeah, just like people don't massively produce homeopathic medicine, astrology books and holy scripture.

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
Yeah, just like people don't massively produce homeopathic medicine, astrology books and holy scripture.

Blood sausage and head cheese rank up there too. Guns are handy though. If a rapist attacks a woman armed with a pistol, she just points and applies very little presure to the trigger. She can defend herself against someone much larger and stronger than she is. If she hits a nerve center he will drop immediately. At the very least he will leak out quickly. If the rapist has a gun then he likely got it illegally but she still has a fighting chance. The government thinks they are handy for them as they order lots of em. Hell, even the IRS is getting gun happy. If they weren't handy, tyrants would not have taken them from the common folk before they made their move. You ought to get a Sako and go moose hunting there in Finland. Moose is very good meat.

Originally posted by moon1969
Government serves a useful purpose. The insane massive proliferation of guns in our society does not.

The massive proliferation of guns serves a very useful purpose. It prevents your ilk from forcing your society-destroying ideals on the half of the country with sense.

Originally posted by sasquatch672
The massive proliferation of guns serves a very useful purpose. It prevents your ilk from forcing your society-destroying ideals on the half of the country with sense.

Democracy is a handy alternative.