Gun Control & RKBA

Would you make your family walk through a lightning storm? But keeping a gun in your house is either (1) more dangerous than that, or (2) useless. If the gun is locked up in a safe and unloaded it's useless. If it's not locked up, then it's dangerous, whether a family member uses it inappropriately, or whether it becomes one of the hundreds of thousand firearms stolen every year.

Now the burglar has a gun!

Gun owners are selfish because, whether they like it or not, the NRA will crow about every gun and ammunition purchase you make. That makes the NRA stronger, and they can force state legislatures to allow open carry in Walmart or in bars (but not at the NRA National Convention).

Since the NRA first scared away federal legislators from voting on the Brady Bill in 1990, as well as other reasonable gun safety laws since then, over 15,000,000 Americans have been killed or wounded by guns. That's a lot of fucking carnage for useless toys.

Guns are useless. There is no reason--except selfish pride--to own one in modern America.

And that gun you have that will be passed on from generation to generation, will, if you are lucky, not be involved, eventually, in a murder, robbery, suicide, accidental discharge that kills or wounds, or negligent discharge that just misses.

The only gun that gets thrown away is a murder weapon.