Originally Posted by Shotsie

Smoking cigarettes kills those people who choose to smoke them. Same thing with alcohol. Sorry, but your analogies are fucking retarded. How are you gonna kill someone with a cigarette, flick it in their bed while they're sleeping?

The abuse of firearms kills other people - most recently a shitload of little kids - who never do anything to opt into that abusive and destructive behavior.

Other differences could follow, but that one alone is so profound that there isn?t enough left of your analogy to proceed in any serious fashion.