My support for gun ownership rights is not universal and unqualified.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

17. Either you care about lives or you don't?

People demand an "assault weapon" ban even though long rifles -- both single and semi -- only kill ~400 people annually. Yet under-aged drinking literally claims a hundred times more. Add in the domestic violence, sexual assaults, pathologies and DUIs that find their origin in alcohol and it's easy to see where the greater evil lies.

Every appeal for gun control tells us, "Remove this thing and we can end the suffering and save lives!" If ending human suffering and saving lives were truly the objective why not save 100 where only 1 could be saved?

I know why -- and so do you. Because the fallacy of the prohibition has already been proven. It's an obvious failure. But the GC movement isn't about actually saving lives. The pictures are just crass manipulation. It's about control. To hell with reality and to hell with the bodies of children, those-who-oppose must be brought to heel is the only possible rationale.

And that is why I wrote the OP.