Gun Control III

If anything, it's easier to pursue happiness when you're healthy.

Allowing only men to vote is archaic.

You're the one who is ignoring history. The original Constitution denied women the right to vote. The 19th Amendment corrected that. Are you suggesting that the denying women the vote is not archaic?I personally believe that even people as ignorant and hateful as you should be allowed to vote.

One possible argument (which the gun nuts might not be comfortable using) is that criminals are better at gun safety than the average parent.

The flaw in that analogy being that insurance is less likely to kill your children.

It's the same as the argument against, "Cars kill more people than guns."A car is useful, maybe necessary; a gun is not. Insurance is useful, maybe necessary; a gun is not.To quote you again: "But then, insurance is more likely to never be used at all... which is why being in the insurance business is profitable. But it sure is nice to have when its needed." A gun is never "needed". More often than not, it is a detriment rather than an asset.

For the vast majority of people, that is correct, no useful purpose. There are misuses for guns and counter-productive purposes. Let's leave the goalposts in one place, shall we? This thread is about civilian ownership of guns. Nope. I've survived 66 years without ever needing a gun to prevent anybody from killing me. (And if I had had a gun, what would have prevented myself from killing me?) Step 1. Live in a society where every bozo on the street doesn't have the hardware to kill me quickly and easily. If he wants to kill me with a nail clipper or a pencil, let him have at it and I'll take my chances.To tell the truth, I don't think I would want to kill somebody just to save myself.

If you think guns don't kill people, try killing forty people with a spoon.

For the same reason that all physically ill people don't limp: different illnesses have different symptoms.

There's that "law-abiding gun owners" thing again - They'll obey any law but that one.

The problem is a society that wants guns.

You can't. As I pointed out in another post once upon a time, your country has had this problem for hundreds of years. And there you go. That's the root of the problem.

Actually, it's considerably less than 51%. You seem to be the only one talking about "mandatory reparations". But yes, when you do something wrong, reparations are an important step in doing what's right. It really doesn't matter whether you believe it or not. If a plurality elects representatives who believe that reparations are the way to go, then reparations you will pay.

Of course. There are all kinds of legal challenges and pressures along to way to a law being enacted. But once the law is enacted, civilized people render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's. They don't storm the Capitol. They're not necessarily smarter than God - just more honest.

In Canada, if somebody tries to break in while I'm home, I'm going to beat him to death with my cane and roll his bloody corpse down the stairs. Tomorrow I might have to buy a new cane.(Full dislusure: It was my dad's cane. He used it only for the last year or so of his life. When he died at 85 in 1997, one of the neighbours suggested I should keep his cane. So far, I've only used if for planning to kill burglars.)(It has a nice retractable ice-spike on the end, so....)