Gun Control & RKBA

Straw Man

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21. So ...

Sat Jun 25, 2016, 11:01 AM

Jun 2016

I probably own

More firearms than 99% of the posters on this site and am probably the only one with a 420 yard (topo, range finder said 390) elk. I have also had to take other people's lives.

... do you consider yourself part of the problem?

The people who are scarfing up guns like they are baseball cards while they sit out in their suburban enclaves are in virtually no danger. The only benefit they get is "freedom" from imaginary criminals who self-defense advocates have convinced them are right outside the door by telling colorful one in a million stories.

Yet the criminal who steals a gun from them will do the same damage with it as he would with one he stole from you, and neither he nor the society he harms will care what the motivation behind buying it was or what the owner did with it before it was stolen.

People buy guns for a lot of reasons: hunting, collecting, target shooting, plinking/fun, and yes, self-defense. I'm not even sure self-defense is the top reason, but ultimately that's irrelevant.

What I'm hearing from you is that you think your gun ownership is justified while other people's is not.

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