And yet you post in this thread anyway..Why is that? Seriously?
Your post count? What?
This is the first indication that you are not to be taken seriously: your defensive reaction and attempt at redirecting the discussion toward a dead end subject.
Posting something that admits that gun owners are in fact a danger to those around them quite often does not make a troll, it's just the honest truth.
"QUITE OFTEN"?
Billions of rounds of ammunition expended each and every year by millions of gun owners, and still a total death figure of appx. 30,000 per year (many of those being suicides), and you say that gun owners are "quite often" a danger.
Funny how the pathetically insignificant percentage of harm: usages utterly does not support your thesis.
So why would you single out guns and not anything else that people can own or use that makes them a danger to the rest of the public?
- nail guns
- automobiles
- boats and personal watercraft
- gasoline
- household chemicals
- sports equipment
I have seen or heard of ALL of these things being used to hurt others due to the user's negligence, stupidity, incompetence, malice, or any combination thereof.
It does not bother me at all if I am the only gun owner on the entire planet that thinks the way I do, and the rest of the people on this forum should feel much better knowing you all feel just the opposite.
If you hold these feelings about guns, I wonder what you feel about cars, and why you said nothing about them.
We know that we gun owners go on over to democraticunderground and piss them off there by talking pro-gun. It would not surprise me if you were one of them, coming over here to stir up trouble by saying idiotic and irrational things about guns to
us.
I recognize that there is some kernel of understandable angst or frustration that you are (attempting to express) -- I know of people doing stupid things with guns that make us all look bad. And you can never know if as you walk past someone's window, he is attempting to clean his gun with a loaded chamber pointed across his lap right at your head. But by the same token, you can never know that the guy in the Chevy coming down the street toward you is not trying to use his cellular phone, electric shaver, newspaper and egg mcmuffin, and about to cross the centerline and hit you head-on, killing you and your family. (And in that case, at least a negligent, non-murder-intending gun owner who screwed up would probably take out no more than one of you.)
Like most anti-gunners, your derision is misdirected at the cause of the FEWER problems. It would be like going after human electrocutions by bug-zappers before you solved the child swimming-pool drowning problem first. An agenda blinds you to the priority that things should be given.
Maybe you should have been careful to simply say, "I know we all have a right to them, but sometimes the careless way in which
some gun owners act makes me lament that we can't limit ownership magically to only those who are careful and conscientious."
Is that more what you meant? 'Cause I can agree with that. It's not the same as coming across as though you wish you were the only one, the elite, the emperor. You most certainly are not. I know that I personally am no more of a danger to you with my guns than any unarmed person is to you. To me, YOU might be the reckless idiot that you think I might be, so maybe I should wish YOU didn't have guns.
Meanwhile, your defensiveness in responding to people poking legitimate holes in your position indicates that you are more than likely just a troll, yeah. Rather than coming back with rational discourse, you say things like, "Well if I'm just a troll, aren't you embarrassed to reply to me?" crap.
-Jeffrey