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You've evidently just not been using them as intended.

• drak0n1c 9y ago
  Guns are more often used as deterrents than to kill. Unfortunately, the cases of deterrence aren't newsworthy.
  • InitialLastName 9y ago
    A guy goes to the doctor with a pencil in his ear. The doctor says, "Why do you have a pencil in your ear?". The guy responds, "To keep away the alligators. See? No alligators anywhere in sight."
    • DoreenMichele 9y ago
      My dad was a two time veteran with a purple heart and guns displayed on the wall above his bed, not locked up. Our shitty sliding glass door at the back of the house, a standard feature in the houses of the neighborhood, was never broken into. Anyone that I knew well enough to know if they had had a break in could not say the same. I'm reasonably sure that word got round the neighborhood that if you valued your hide, Mr. (MyMaidenName)'s house was not a good house to break into. But, of course, I can't prove that. Maybe it was wild coincidence and we would have been magically safe without guns on the wall, never mind that no one else seemed to be.
      • InitialLastName 9y ago
        You might be right. My point is that the deterrence excuse is difficult to prove to the point of absurdity.
        • DoreenMichele 9y ago
          Your absurd example doesn't really engage the point in a meaningful, substantive manner. It merely mocks the idea that deterrence is real. It frames it as something crazy people imagine. It isn't remotely a good faith argument.