Shades 57 said, "Still back to the issue, do you know how many handguns are sold every year and are owned by our citizens - what is the purpose of a hand gun? Is there any other use for one except to kill a human? Why isn't that tool outlawed? You know many lives are saved in countries where it is? My cousin Early wouldn't have killed his last three wives if he didn't have access to a handgun. *please no discussion on deterrant effect - I understand the nuclear issue perfectly - glad cousin Early can't get access to a nuke* Don't outlaw the tools, outlaw the use."
Handguns are used for target practice (Olympic Sport), hunting, varmit control (have you ever seen what an Armadillo can do to St Augustine Grass?), and home and self defense. Your statements and their premises on which you base them is just like your cuz's first three wives, "dead" wrong! BTW, what the he** was law enforcement in Georgia thinking of, letting ole Early out after his first murder? Hmmmm, therein lies the problem me thinks...
Lets see, Germany 1937, all guns in civilian hands are to be seized, we have the rise of Hitler and Nazism. Cambodia, Khmer Rouge seizes all weapons and millions die in the "killing fields". It goes on and on and on. Here in the United States, we live under a Constitution that recognizes certain rights. We have a Second Amendment guaranteeing that we have the right to own these tools. The Justice Department just made an in print definitive statement supporting the second amendment as doing this very thing.
As far as how many lives can be saved, lets see if I can figure this out. You must mean like this anti-gun law in Germany two weeks ago stopped that school kid from killing 14 Teachers and fellow Students! Oh yea, in Europe, no less in Germany, where the worlds most stringent gun laws are in effect, and this kid gets a gun and kills. Yea, really works well!!!
I have an idea, you can move to Communist China! They have virtually no copy protection laws, and they have no civilian owned weapons. One last thought, do you remember Tianamin Square? I still remember that civilian approaching the tank with a flower. He was only saved after someone pulled him from in front of the tank that was about to roll over his flower armed self. While I think that CP should protect the content providers, it should do so without squashing our rights, such as you have aspoused to want to do with your post.
BTW, you have every right to feel how you do, and to post it here as you have done. That is guranteed also, under the First Amendment to the Constitution. The right to create this document was also "won by the gun".
Maybe I should change my name to Ray Gun, hmmmmmmm.
Ray