Welcome to new members who, just coincidentally, use assault rifles to hunt!

[AtheistCrusader]

299. No economies of scale?

If I hypothetically have 30 firearms in my safe, does that not reduce the average risk of those firearms, since if I tried to misuse them, and evolution only equipped me with two arms, that vastly limits the potential number of firearms that could be simultaneously misused?


"They're not to "preserve life", they're to threaten people (with killing) who you have determined are a threat to you.

Pretty obvious, and again impossible to argue against. If you use a gun on someone who threatens you, it ends their life. And - correct me if I'm wrong - ending a life is not quite the same as "preserving life""


Mine are. Use does not require firing the weapon to protect human life. It might involve it, but it does not necessarily require it. Less than 900 homicides per year are ruled justifiable, yet the US Department of Justice pins the number of defensive gun uses at around 100,000 per year. You do the math. The mere possession of a firearm may discourage a person that wanted to inflict grievous harm, from attacking at all. If it escalates to the point of requiring deadly force, someone had to have a reasonable apprehension of death/grievous harm already, you're just re-directing it to the aggressor, if you're doing it right. (and more than one victim could be simultaneously protected.) Lawfully employed, yes most firearm DGU's involve only the threat of shooting some aggressor. And that usually works right there.

I've 'used' my firearms an awful lot without ever harming or threatening anyone.