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You talk about a gun like you plan to open your beer with it.
what is so mystical and magical about guns to you? that you think they are a special thing?
I can also murder people with kitchen knives, btw. plenty of domestic and non-domestic violence involves knives.
i have a non-chalant attitude towards guns because I'm familiar with them. i also have a dog. some people who don't have dogs freak out around my dog because they are afraid of dogs.
Small tubes full of explosive shrapnel aren't magic. They're just hazardous when improperly owned and operated.
Multi-ton gas powered rolling steel boxes are also hazardous when improperly owned and operated. That's why we have all these standards for licensure, ownership, and use.
Sure. People are fragile. You can crush someone's windpipe with your bare hands.
I don't think your ability to do this manually should encourage anyone to stock up on machines that do it rapidly at long range.
If you suggested everyone should show up at an ICE detention center wearing hockey masks and waving meat clevers, I would tell you this is a bad idea. If you suggested everyone should sleep with a kitchen knife under their pillows, because it would keep them safe from a SWAT raid, I would strongly disagree.
You're pitching individualist solutions to a broad social problem. There is nothing you can purchase retail that will remove ICE from your neighborhood. And there are hazards that come with gun ownership that you seem deeply invested in ignoring.
If your response your sense of insecurity is to go out and buy a Bully XL on impulse, you are making a mistake.