While the gun nuts are busy equating any attempt at better regulating firearms to an attempt to ban all guns, I have been busy pondering the most absurd reasons for folks to own firearms or an unnecessary type or amount of firearms.
Is it reasonable to want to be able to hunt? Sure. But do you want me to believe that it's necessary to have 30 bullets to kill 1 animal?
Is it reasonable to want to be able to defend yourself? Sure, but you don't need enough firepower to blow the ass off of a small country to do it. And it is worth considering that your guns that are intended for "defense" are more likely to result in your death or the death of your family members than to ever "defend" anyone or anything.
I don't really want to get into the folks that have guns because they think there will be an apocalypse or a world financial collapse or some other scenario resulting in the collapse of our civilization. If things are bad enough that everyone and their brother needs to walk around with an assault rifle then I think I would prefer not to survive the apocalypse.
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