@SecondHandStoke Nuclear Weapons are a different discussion, one that would be reason for another thread. But I am opposed to nuclear weapons too. And they have been used and killed thousands, so we have a glimpse of what horror they would cause if used now.
Yes, killing bothers me profoundly. I think as a society we ought to do what we can to discourage it. One way to discourage it is to get rid of guns as was done in Australia.
And I don’t like that the police in the United States have become overly militarized to the point they are not trusted by law abiding citizens, and that they have killed more people in the US in the last fifteen years than terrorists.
Fighting back is not the same as pulling out a gun and killing someone.
Yes, I was overly direct and not inclusive in alternative purposes when I said “nothing else.” But killing things is the primary purpose of a gun, and any argument about other reasons for owning and enjoying guns is fine, but the primary purpose is still killing.
We disagree. I sit in my home behind a computer; you sit in yours with the false security that all will be well while you have a gun.
74 school shootings since Newtown. And that “good guy with a gun” last Sunday is dead in a Wal-Mart. To get back to the original question, nobody gets to live and let live when there are guns involved; rather, people die.