Wow, 2TinyGuy has finally flipped, hasn't he?
Most of these arguments I've never seen made, and certainly not in the hyperbolic way you did.
Mostof them aren't well trained, it's why we have so many accidents, or guns used in domestic violence incidents.
Some of you ARE crazy psychos. We should probalby do something about that.
A gun in the home is 43 times more likely to kill a household member than a bad guy.. so that's a good reason.
I know a lady who kept a gun in the home for that reason, and came home from dinner with her husband to find her teenage son used it on himself.
I've been in more than a few fistfights... buy you know what, everyone walked away from that alive. You can't say the same if a gun was in the mix.
Again, this is largely true because the attacker has the advantage of a plan. Unless you are a paranoid loon fondling your gun every second (which I kind of suspect describes you, I don't know a man who loved a woman the way you love guns) the attacker always has the element of surprise and iniative.
The actual FBI Crime statistics show that Defensive Gun Uses are rare.
Well, you are compensating for something, aren't you?
The Second Amendment was about militias, not gun ownership. Militias are clearly mentioned, Guns are not.
Sandy Hook. Aurora. Stoneman High School. Uvalde. Highland Park. We've seen what AR-15's can do in the wrong hands.
Um, yeah, because they have tanks, bombers, and usually, the tacit support of most of the population.
Actually, the ironic thing is the NRA used to be a sane organization. When violence increased in the 1960's, the NRA and Republican Governors signed sensible laws like the Mulford Act to keep the Black Panthers from walking around with guns threatening people.
The NRA doesn't give a shit about regular gun owners, it's there to promote gun sales, and the best way to do that is to keep people scared. How do you scare people? Make it easy for crazy people to get guns.