An explanation, from a gun nut.

[Savannahmann]

29. Indeed.

I have a question Mr. Gun Nut. That question is did you really think that this argument would fly? The mandated use of seat belts and airbags are estimated to save more than ten thousand lives a year. But that isn't a violation of your personal right is it? No, that is common sense backed up by legislative action. Yet, the lives saved by seat belts and airbags are roughly speaking one third of that which would be saved by an outright banning of firearms.

So the question remains, why would we not act to save lives? Facts you say? OK. Why is it that every year we have roughly the same number of gun related deaths as a nation embroiled in civil war?

Yet we are supposed to do nothing, because hammers kill more people than rifles? That is the most asinine argument I have ever heard. You are worse than a fool, you're a poser, pretending to be a Democrat, and a Liberal. Those claimed positions mean you are rational, yet your defense of the mighty gun is most irrational.