Like Many Other DUers, I Have Relatives Who Are Right-Wingers

[Ocelot II]

38. Collecting guitars isn't quite the same as collecting guns, though.

It's true that, as with guns, you can play only one guitar at a time - so why would you need more than one? Maybe because different guitars work better with certain kinds of music. Segovia's guitar probably wouldn't have been the same as the one used by John Williams or Julian Bream or Chet Atkins or (electrically) Prince or Eric Clapton. If you play different kinds of music you'd want different guitars to play it on. I know a professional trumpeter, retired from a major symphony orchestra, who owns nine trumpets. That's because the one he uses for Bach's 2nd Brandenburg Concerto is not, and couldn't be, the same one he uses to play Hovhaness' Prayer of St. Gregory. It's also true that not all guns are the same, but all of them do just one thing: they kill. Maybe animals, maybe people. An AR-15 was designed for the specific purpose of killing a lot of people in a short period of time, not for hunting animals. If you hunt different kinds of animals you would want different kinds of guns that would be most effective for bagging your prey - ducks, pheasants, deer, elk, bears, elephants, etc. But if you want to kill a lot of people - or fantasize about killing a lot of people - and an AR-15 is the best, most effective way to do that, why do you need more than one?