Eloquent stomping of a dumbass wrong pro-gun message that went viral

[SheilaT]

2. The gun apologists love to

cite (often fictional) cases where someone with a gun stopped a crime or drove away a home invader or some such. Yes, sometimes it happens, but meanwhile 30 people a day die in this country from guns.

Imagine if we had a major plane accident every single week, in which a couple of hundred people were to die. Every week, fifty two weeks a year. Some nine thousand deaths from those plane crashes. Don't you think we'd do something about airplane safety? Don't you think that if the planes were fundamentally unsafe we'd ground them?

Instead, the gun apologists always have an excuse why it's not the guns. They're partially right. It's not only the guns. It's untreated mental illness, it's a culture of violence, of movies and TV shows that glorify shooting and murder. But in the end (because all of our violent shows and movies are exported to the rest of the world) it's the guns. They're available in abundance here in a way they are not in other countries.

I am absolutely for taking away guns, and it's time to be saying that out loud. It's too bad that some people think they are responsible, or because they hunt for food they should be allowed to have as many assault weapons as they want. Yes, I am willing to distinguish between assault weapons and others, but there still needs to be some sort of absolute limit on the number of guns owned.

Is it possible for guns to be disabled in some way that they forever after can't be fired? I'd be in favor of that for all of the guns above some limit in a collection.

Oh, and because I don't collect guns I don't know what a reasonable limit might be, but more than five strikes me as excessive.