Another school shooting

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by morethanpretty

Guns cause as many problems as the "solve". The only reasonable use for a gun is to hunt with it.

You should be ashamed of yourself. This viewpoint is friendly to genocide.

You will note that my viewpoint is very unfriendly to genocide. (It's not too sweet on genocide's supporters here in the Cellar, either.)

Which is the morally superior position, and why are you contenting yourself with the inferior one? There are two explanations -- both unflattering, you know.

General ownership of firearms, teacheth the JPFO, is the only known preventative of episodes of genocide, and surely resisting genocide is a "reasonable" use for a gun. While the fundamental rationality of general warfare is open to debate (I regard war as an inescapable part of the human condition, just as getting eaten by lions is part of the African antelope condition.) the fundamental rationality of resisting getting killed by hostile combatants is not. Morethanp, your approach makes refugees, not winners. What's the point of that?

You won't be blessed with an informed opinion on this until you've read Simkin, Zelman, and Rice's Lethal Laws: "Gun Control" is the Key to Genocide, available from the JPFO among other sources.

How is it that you inhabit a small town in Texas and are unable to understand guns better?