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>So my question is, to gun owners that support existing laws regarding semi-automatic weapons like the AR-15- would limiting its sale really be really as devast
by ppod 10y ago
>So my question is, to gun owners that support existing laws regarding semi-automatic weapons like the AR-15- would limiting its sale really be really as devastatingly harmful to society at large?
The core of this issue, like so many political issues, is fear and selfishness versus hope and love. These people do not want to inconvenience their hobby to make society safer.
I would feel safer if I carried a gun everywhere. I think that I am more responsible than most people, and that I would never use it in anger. But I know that most people think that they are smarter and more responsible than they really are, and that if everyone carried a gun communities would not be safer. Choosing to be unarmed for the benefit of society is true bravery.
- 8note 10y agoI feel safer without the gun than I would with one. If you have one, you're the first target for everybody else with a gun. Kill you before you can start shooting back.
- DefaultUserHN 10y agoI on the other hand, feel safer with a gun than I would without one. So the question becomes, who is right? You? Or Me?
- nicolashahn 10y agoThis is why everyone who does carry a gun carries it concealed.
- LyndsySimon 10y ago> These people do not want to inconvenience their hobby to make society safer. I am one of "these people", and your perception is not true for me. Guns are not a hobby for me, nor are they for many gun owners. Rather, we view ownership and carry as civil rights.
- drewrv 10y agoThese things aren't mutually exclusive. Blogging is both a hobby and a civil right.
- ppod 10y agoYou're right that's probably most gun owners too, I don't think hunting or target shooting is the driving reason. I think that civil rights should be more general than that -- like you should have a right to a level of personal safety, and then we design laws to protect that right. I just think that gun ownership endangers rather than protects that right.