Reply #86: I didn't say that guns were good. [View All]

[theredpen]

I said that owning guns was a Constitutional right.

It's an important one, too. It establishes that the government (and its army) does not have a monopoly on violence. Soldiers can carry arms because citizens can carry arms. That's not saying that citizens must or even should carry arms, but it's important that they have the right to do so.

Also, since my wife cannot eat beef, its nice to be able to go shoot something for dinner that isn't chicken or pork. Have you ever tried to strangle a deer? It's really, really, hard.