Of course not, cars are needed to get from one place to another. Guns have a single function, that being death or grievous injury. It's a very bad comparison.

Also, you know what property I like to have rights over, you know, before my right to carry a glock in my purse? My body. We got that here... without invasive ultrasounds & the like. But you are so totally right. You are so much freer than the rest of us ;)

This is the NRA's new marketing ploy: women need guns to protect themselves from abusive men. As someone who has worked with women in abusive relationships I can promise you, the reality is that if she has a gun he is much more likely to take it away from her and use it against her than she is likely to be able to…

The Aurora shooting is your best argument? The shooter was wearing bullet resistant body armor and shooting in a dark and crowded theater. It being Colorado, I suspect there was at the least one person in that theater with a firearm. But thank God that person was responsible enough to realize that if he started…

That's amazing. I wonder how those incidents compare, statistically, with the millions of fucking people who shop every goddamn day without being attacked in a parking lot? I'd say they are a drop in the fucking bucket. Rare enough to not require a firearm, loaded and in your purse, next to a fucking 2 yr old in…

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA.

I have no idea what "your mom" is in reference to, and at this point I don't care. I disagree with you regarding the second amendment, general approval of guns, the use of standing armies (the founding fathers were also cognizant of the fact that having one makes you more likely to start and enter wars, and wanted to…

How is it that you can quote the second amendment and completely ignore the historical context it was written in?? The founding fathers were also against a standing army (hence militias and the 2nd amendment), do you boycott the armed forces? I don't even know why I'm writing this, I think I'm just incredulous at your…

I'm not anti-gun. That said, your argument is stupid. Guns are made to kill things. There is literally no other purpose for a gun. Everything else you have listed has a purpose other than death.

Most police officers outside the U.S. Seem to manage without guns. The average UK Bobby isn't packing. Much rather live in a country that restricts gun ownership than one where every crazy and their cat can have one. You can't legislate against stupidity but you can stop idiots owning guns.

All I have to say all is that when my dad was 4, he got ahold of his father's gun and decided to play cowboys and Indians with his best friend of the time. Shot the kid at point blank range in the face killing him. My father grew up, without counseling, this was swept under the rug, and this is the root reason for why…

In several states, there are now more fun deaths than auto fatalities. Car manufacturers have worked to make their products safer, gun manufacturers work to increase distribution of their product and actively work against any measures that might increase safety.

The only purpose of guns is to cause harm. This is not true of pools or cars so that really doesn't hold up as an argument no matter how often it is trotted out.

Thank you for sharing such absolute bullshit, same bullshit always shared when this issue comes up. A distinctly american gun culture point of view. And it's utter crap, because the fact still remains that if there was no gun, a mother would be alive. You can dress it up and use all the tired old rhetoric you want,…

Same. F this lady. I don't care. I'm glad the toddler shot her and not one of her other kids.

and wouldn't dream of letting our children near them?

SO very well said. Thank you, I'm with you on this one. As for gun owners saying guns aren't to blame...well a mother died, hard to see any other way besides a gun that a toddler could kill his mother...She should have been more responsible, but still. No gun, no death.

Sincere question: To be as safe as possible, it's best to keep guns in the home unloaded with bullets in a separate location if the gun is not in a safe/locked box. If it is in a safe/locked box, it's still better to keep the gun unloaded but I guess bullets in the same location are ok. My question is: if a gun is…

What possible reason could a young mother with multiple children have for carrying a loaded firearm on a shopping trip to Wal-Mart?! Wal-Mart is a threat to the economy but guns aren't going to do shit to stop that.

Would you, as what seems like a reasonable and responsible person, give up your weapons for a country with significantly less gun violence?