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Originally Posted by Platapus
Because the father choose not to collect stamps but choose to collect guns. I hope society is not at the point where our hobbies can be dictated to us.  |
Tools of death are not like any other item, and I have a problem with claiming it "freedom" to collect them like any other items for a hobby. They are not. A firearm is a firearm, and this guy owns 15. A firearm cannot be used for surgery. You cannot drill holes into the wall to hang up a picture, nor can you use it to learn about chemistry, to chop trees in your garden, calculate your taxes, tell your girl that you love her, or bring you from here to there as a tool of transportation. By design, a firearm and a weapon is meant to kill, and that is all it does. It's a tool of death, and all talking about deterrences does not change that, but only leads to an easyminded and craeless attitude towards using these tools (or even launch whole wars carelessly). Making that a hobby, an item of excessive interest, is something that tells something about the mind having that interest. A fascination for weapons is something that is neither desirable, nor is it healthy. It is intersted in death, and in how to destroy life. Owning
a whole collection of weapons for sports or hobby only - that you cannot describe as a need coming from the sports. Man, I own two swords myself, one was a gift, the other I bought before. My father is sports shooter, but only owns two firearms of two different callibres that he practices with, and for some time only he owned a third one. Also a ranger and a hunter would not need 15 different guns.
I also refuse to accept a general freedom to buy and collect any given drugs. Poisons. Explosives. Freedom and the claim for freedom - has limits as long as you do not live alone on the planet. Where you live in a social community with others, your freedom has limits, necessarily. Unlimited freedom withion a communal context can only be gotten at the price of egoism and anarchy -and the conflict coming from that, inevitably.