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Father of Michigan school shooter found guilty of involuntary manslaughter
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this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2024
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This is not as clever as you believe it to be.
I particularly use a car on the daily whose primary purpose is to take me from point-A to point-B. You know, the part where I said Risk-Benefit...?
Tell me what the primary use of a firearm in my home is on a daily-basis other than being an active risk.
Well, it serves multiple purposes, actually! For starters, it makes a fantastic paperweight when I have too many documents on my desk. Secondly, if I ever run out of popcorn kernels while watching a movie, I can just load some small ones into the gun and shoot them into a frying pan. It also works great as a marshmallow launcher during backyard bonfires - that'll impress all your friends at your next neighborhood get-together. Oh, and last but not least, you can use it as a walking stick or a selfie stick for those hard-to-reach angles. Clearly, there are several creative ways to utilize a firearm in everyday life.
Shucks, you've convinced me!
Bonus we all get to supplement some great and tasty lead from all the target practice when we're training to be the big hero that one day!
The primary use is to protect you from someone who attempts to cause you harm. It’s only an active risk if not understood how to use and not properly out of reach of those who do not understand. I don’t like guns but I am not sure what you are trying to argue?
Actually it seems that the primary use is suicides and mass shootings
This mindset is like the motorcyclists or automobile drivers who espouse they don't plan on wrecking because they're good drivers, lmao.
Welcome to why we have speed-limits;; sure, some might know how to drive faster, but boy, when do my fellow males ever over-extend their confidence beyond their actual capability...?
lol anyways, the reality is that statistically the risk to those within the household from mere possession (safety accidents from children, suicide, domestic abuse/homicide, not opting to run, hide, flee, cooperate that are all better alternatives than engaging, statistically, theft of firearm and its use elsewhere) outweighs the safety. Full-stop. From a societal standpoint, that's kind of a bad ROI.
Yeah. Welcome to why we have safes we can lock?
... And thus in the words of Jim Jefferies, they're not exactly too great for protection in the heat-of-the-moment, now are they?
... And oh how I wish the vast majority of gun-owners were responsible enough to lock them away. Yet time and time again -- case in point here in this very article -- we see they cannot be trusted with the simple standard of locking away firearms.
Yeah. I agree with ya tbh. Just trying to play devils advocate to get a conversation going.
Sadly it’s impossible to argue for guns in good faith. Lol