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It's also interesting how simply describing the way I think about guns will almost inevitably trigger someone to say that it's some fault that lies with me, it certainly cannot be the guns, right?
And the fact that yes, there is that one use I can and do understand, does that somehow make guns generally acceptable? How many of the American gun owners are actually hunters in percent?
Those few percent are enough for you to blame some kind of character fault in my person for me not being able to unconditionally love guns? Can't you see that this is a still a bit weird?
You said guns have no positive use. And now you walk it back and say yes, there is a use you understand. To me that just leaves the door open to more potential uses.
I'll tell you, I am very much pro gun control. I want it to be hard to get them. I don't necessarily even believe in the whole home defense thing, and jokingly suggest often that the best defense is a bright flashlight. We probably agree on a lot.
I'm not attacking your character, just your lack of sincerity. When you make statements like you did in your first post that are hyperbolic, it erodes your position.
People have hobbies. I'm not a gun fetishist. I'm a gun owner. Outside of my outright telling someone that I am, they would have no idea. I don't wear camo. I don't have NRA stickers on my car. I don't make quips about guns don't kill people I kill people. But I don't besmirch people liking weapons as a hobby, in the same way I don't besmirch dudes who are into swords.