hillary or osama er bama....

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Originally Posted by somerfrost

That's all true but owning a gun just makes it easier than say using a knife or rock. This is not an issue that will be solved by government regulation, but America's "love affair" with the gun is troubling and related to a similar view of violence in general...showing some dude killing five people on TV is cool but showing a naked woman is porn...that logic always escapes me! The issue can only be resolved, as with poverty, bigotry and the like, by fundamental change in the collective mindset. Still, I think government has a responsibility to keep weapons under control...I mean, does the average house need an automatic weapon for "self-defense", I'd sorta like a flame thrower or rocket launcher myself...and tanks are cool! My own personal nuke...there is an idea!

Somerfrost,
I hear you.
Government regulation will be about as successful with imposing morality as it has been with imposing "democracy".
And, to put you mind at ease, I use mine for food gathering and plinking at cans on fenceposts.
Gun control is not the answer. There are too many threats for those that see them as such, and too many ways to murder others, however that might be justified.
In my next life, I'll be sure to ask Jim Jones, Adolph H, and G Dub what they were thinking...if I end up in the same place.
Maybe you can answer this one....what's the difference between an RPG, an IED, or "smart bombs" from thirty thousand feet up, or a cruise missle coming from a ship twenty miles off the coast?
I really don't know.
Some goverments talk against one and condone another. Very confusing to me. Dead is dead.

ps...the other guy is on my ignore...not much he has to say to me makes sense. Tell him if you can. Thanks.