actually I gave you the single most important argument for weapon ownership and that was whether or not a people should allow a state to own the monopoly on violence.
You just regurgitated what I said, you said. You just appealed to emotion, and quoting the value of life lost as the primary argument for the banning of weapons. That is your only argument, and anybody counters, you repeat the same tired bullshit, why do you need.
Yes and cars apparently are very efficient killing machines too. They may be nice forms of transportation, but in reality they can do more damage than a gun ever could.
But you hit exactly why no one wants to regulate them even though there are multiple positive effects like reducing carbon emissions, saving lives, etc. because it would be inconvenient. That and most people don’t want to find out they are terrible drivers.
you need a gun to defend yourself and your loved ones. picture a world with no great equalizers whatsoever and Overeem broke into your house to bang your girl.
You are ridiculous…you need to backtrack and see the replies.
My initial post was asking for valid reasons in which guns could be used beneficially that outweigh the overwhelmingly negative effect of them. In that same post, I disregarded the idea of monopoly on violence because of how ridiculous it is - this is the paranoid, fear mongering conspiracy theorists reason for having guns and there is no legitimate justification for it.
You responded to the post by countering the explosives comment I made but didn’t address anything else…now you’re saying you brought up monopoly on violence, which I don’t see brought up in your initial response but it doesn’t matter because it’s just a ridiculous argument.
That much is true, though the distinction between those two concepts is one that’s lost on most of our species and almost always has been. …They’re getting better about it, though, slowly yet surely.