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Originally Posted by llwhiteoutll
But guns are fair game because the vast majority don't own them and have had an irrational sense of fear instilled into them by the media.
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How is it irrational to fear something designed for killing? If anything, it's irrational not to fear guns, or to somehow believe that if everyone had a gun, nobody would have anything to fear.
You seem to think that someone disagreeing with the right to own personal firearms is irrational, but your reasoning really comes down to "I like them and they make me feel safer, not threatened." That's not any more rational than "I don't like them and they make me feel threatened, not safer".
Further, the right to *own* a gun is disingenuous, what gun owners want is the right to
shoot a gun when they feel justified in doing so. Well, we have moved past the need to personally defend your property and life with weapons, we have institutions and laws to do that now. Are these perfect? No, but the rule of law is vastly preferable to the arbitrary rule of the gun; for every scenario where guns "solve" a problem, there are many more scenarios where law prevents problems from happening in the first place.