Simple - and serious - question - why is anything other than a handgun, shotgun or rifle needed?

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59. No disagreement. Wasn't even talking about him. That said...

....for many who purchase guns, the cool factor is VERY important. If not, there would not be much in the way of show and tell. I would venture to say that the vast majority of gunowners have at some point shown off their gun(s) to a friend or friends. That video game Needler, without question, would be damn cool to own!

Sadly cool kills. That same Needler would sell, easily at first but eventually the novelty would wear off and nobody would be buying it. Outside of cool it is pretty much useless. It would take no time before there would be innocent victims from that weapon. On one hand there would be those who wanted these things banned wholesale and on the other there would be those who stood their ground behind their Second Amendment rights.

Regardless of which side of that debate one may be on, there are those who purchase handguns for their cool factor alone. The buried point in my Covenant Needler example is that because nobody has any of these cool items, there have been no tragedies from them.

What it boils down to is that age old argument, one I will never win or lose to in a debate: The fewer handguns out there, the fewer tragedies we shall suffer as a society from handguns. If somehow, we as a society could remove all the cool out of these things.....slowly we have done just that with ciggarettes so I know it can be done.