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Originally Posted by Scorpyo
Excellent response. There is a difference between need and want. How many US citizens Need to use tobacco or drink alcohol? But they do because it’s legal and they want to. Yet how many hundreds of thousands die each year from satisfying their wants? Let’s look at auto accidents - Approximately 50,000 people die each year. Of those approximately 10,000 are related to alcohol. Probably the majority of the other 40,000 were speeding related. The sad thing is many of those that died were neither the speeding nor the impaired driver. They were bystanders. So let’s only make 2 cylinder 50 hp cars that cannot exceed 60 mph. Probably those who oppose guns would oppose this requirement which would save thousands of lives. As for real men. Real men wrote the 2nd Amendment for a real reason. Many people do not understand the underlying reason for its existence and some that do do not believe anything like that could happen here. Look around you and think again. People don’t need to shoot an AR at a shooting range. They’re right. Also people don’t need to jump out of perfectly good airplanes, dive 300 feet below the surface into dark caves, die climbing Mt Everest, race cars and motorcycles at 200+ mph but they want to and enjoy it. In response to the statement that real men don’t need guns some might say a man is not a real man if he doesn’t have a weapon to protect his family.
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Well said but there are some, maybe many, on this board that literally have no idea what you're saying. Using their logic, however, we would ban automobiles along with guns, parachutes and other things that could hurt you. Maybe like fire or matches too?
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