I can't believe people get ALL FREAKED OUT over guns, but not cars.
I personally find it baffling how blase people are about cars. (My father once told me, "You know, [scissorphishe], it's really not necessary to hold your breath every time you come to an intersection." BUT INTERSECTIONS ARE FULL OF DANGER. Places with a bunch of moving cars are ALL full of danger!) Guns and cars are both incredibly powerful and incredibly dangerous, and I wish my fellow gun-fearing people would stop treating me like an alien or a sadsack shrinking violet just because cars freak me out.
Here is a difference between cars and guns, though: private citizens have access to weapons designed for the army. Weapons designed to kill human beings. Weapons that are beyond anything you might need for hunting turkeys or deer. When there are people going into schools and mowing down children with armored tanks, then we can talk about how unfair it is that people want to restrict guns but not motor vehicles.
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I personally find it baffling how blase people are about cars. (My father once told me, "You know, [scissorphishe], it's really not necessary to hold your breath every time you come to an intersection." BUT INTERSECTIONS ARE FULL OF DANGER. Places with a bunch of moving cars are ALL full of danger!) Guns and cars are both incredibly powerful and incredibly dangerous, and I wish my fellow gun-fearing people would stop treating me like an alien or a sadsack shrinking violet just because cars freak me out.
Here is a difference between cars and guns, though: private citizens have access to weapons designed for the army. Weapons designed to kill human beings. Weapons that are beyond anything you might need for hunting turkeys or deer. When there are people going into schools and mowing down children with armored tanks, then we can talk about how unfair it is that people want to restrict guns but not motor vehicles.