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Originally posted by MarkTiarra
People who don't find any enjoyment in shooting always make the argument that it's ridiculous to keep guns legal for the few people that like to use them for sport. But hey, you know what? I don't drink alcohol and don't enjoy it in the least. People get drunk and act stupid and fight and drive and kill people WAY more often than an idiot with a gun does so why is it that alcohol is okay and guns aren't.
Either thing in the hands of an irresponsible moron is dangerous. If you let one be legal, I don't see how you can't let the other. The only reason guns come under "moral" attack and alcohol doesn't is that the % of the population that enjoys shooting for sport is much lower than the % that drink.
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OK so in the article, the dude compares firearms to firestone tires, and now Mark you compare them to alcohol is it? Or automobiles in general? Either way these are bad comparisons.
Firearms don't exist for 'sport', they exist to ultimitely kill.
This can't be said for alcohol or automobiles or anything else you want to compare to firearms to make you feel better about the fact that gun lovers have been socially conditioned by generations of people who believe in their constitutional right to bear arms. Something a bunch of quakers wrote down on paper and put a seal on waaaay to long ago. There's no way that I would teach my son how to fire or clean a handgun. There's no way I would want to raise a child in a society that feels it's important to do so.
Times change. We don't think the same way we did when that constitution was written. Unfortunately, the side-effects of "right to bear arms" has made it almost a necessity to bear them because that right itself has had a direct cause on the increase of crime that nesessitates them in the first place.