MnSpring wrote on 04/24/18 at 10:49:27:FormerlyLostArtist wrote on 04/24/18 at 10:42:18:
Because the person hasn't misused it. They used it exactly for what it was built for.
There's one, who doesn't get it. if a gun shoots and kills someone, that's not a mis-use. That's how that is supposed to work. I mean I guess guns are good paper weights... maybe, maybe a decent hammer... idk...
Have you ever seen that episode of the Simpsons where Homer gets a gun... that's mis-use of a gun.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/02/23/homer_simpson_if_you_dont_...yes those are exaggerations, hence the comedy aspect of it....
If you don't want to kill people, why have a tool designed to kill people?
Maybe you are in a dangerous environment where people are trying to kill you, so you feel the need to defend yourself with equal if not superior force, you are still killing. Still using the tool exactly how it was designed. It's not a taser, it's a deadly force weapon.
and if it makes you feel better, you only do it in defense, not even proactive defense, just scared for your life defense. but that's just to make you feel better, you are still killing. do you have the right to kill in that way, legally sure, morally sure, but the object doesn't care, those are manmade ideas about what we think we should be able to do.
but if you feel your individual needs are to kill, regardless of what these other hairless apes are telling you, the object of your choice is the same. you aren't misusing the object, it is designed to exactly what you want to do. In fact, using guns offensively is even a more correct usage of a gun, a gun isn't reactive, the human has to train or otherwise be conditioned to be reactive. The gun's not offensive either, but it's use is far easier when it's not being juggled by reactive responses a bang too late...
I get it, it's the person, the person is misguided yes. and a gun is no more dangerous than a sealed envelope of anthrax, and I think it's fine to not want either in your life, and the discussion is healthy. I think it's fine that if you want those in your life, that maybe you should be required to be trained in how to handle them and what they really are.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
the bold part is just as important as the other part.
a well practiced militia (even of one) is of equal importance as the access and availability of arms are.
those two clauses are balanced, so I don't know why so many are fighting a little encouragement by the government to focus on creating well practiced and meaningful proprietors of arms
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