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So, Jay Leno is weird because he has way more cars than he could ever drive? People who have more teapots then they will use are weird now? How about those nefarious stamp collectors....did you know that some of those folks have hundreds of thousands of those things?
Shocking!
No, those are wildly bad examples. There is nothing murderous or criminal or perverted about cars, so why shouldn't Leno have all the cars or yarn or books or horses he can collect? Teapots and stamps, too.
The problem is when you collect evil things meant to hurt people: assault rifles, perversion toys, torture instruments.
You know -- or it may not be the sort of book you would read -- how 1930s classic English mysteries ALWAYS had country houses with weird collections of weapons on the wall? Usually foreign curvy dagger types from the Empire, or maces and battle axes from the Middle Ages of England itself.
Without exception, if the collection was described, a weapon from that wall was snatched up by the murderer and used to kill someone at some point during the house party. Point: collections like that are FOR killing people, and therefore are to be used for that.
In Joe Hill's wonderful "Heart-Shaped Box" his retired lead rock singer collects mass murderer memorabilia -- Seven Dwarfs drawn by John Wayne Gacy, the clown killer of little boys, and several others including a real snuff film. He gets into soooooooo much trouble because of those --- because basically, they are evil. And he's responsible for owning the evil.
Same deal with assault weapons.