Stephen King on US gun contols.

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Originally Posted by Ducimus

The second amendment called and was disinclined to acquiesce your request.

Clearly. And because the logic holds that the Second Amendment guarantees gun ownership for the right of self protection, which has been argued ad naseum for six weeks.

The 'founding dudes' included the right to bear arms for numerous purposes; pirmary among them being the right to self-defense. The gun is a weapon. A weapon exists for the purpose of killing and inflicting bodily harm on another person or thing. And so the use of that weapon is practiced in order to ensure that it can be used properly if your life or liberty are threatened. One does not buy silverware for the intention of self-defense. You buy a gun for that purpose. You do not buy it to cook ham, do your laundry or remove hard water stains. It is an item of violence, and it's ownership is used as deterrent against violence by the threat of violence.

How can you (not you specifically, Ducimus -- you're the only one who said it was a weapon) state that the owning a gun is a necessity for the self-preservation of body and right, and then dance around the fact that it is a weapon, designed and practiced for self defense? Why adamantly proclaim that the government wants to take those guns and then shy away from the same fact? If the application of firearms is Olympic and recreational shooting, then clearly this is not an issue. It's not, though, is it?

Originally Posted by August

I didn't claim to be an Olympic "shooter".

You asked for non violent applications for firearms so I gave you three. BTW it's called a "Biathlon".

I'm aware of the biathlon, thank you. I wasn't aware that the IOC approved AR 15's for competition.