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by adammil 4691 days ago
I think you meant murder is bad for society, because gun ownership never killed anyone.
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No, I agree with the GP. There's a lot of people who buy guns in order to feel powerful and fantasize endlessly about having a justification for using it. Even if they never shoot anyone they tend to approach any and all conflicts in zero-sum terms. Also, they're incredibly tedious to talk to at parties.
No, it only (along with a society of trigger happy idiots and borderline sociopaths doing the owning) vastly increased the chances murder will happen.
>There's no rational reason for you to say that about a person you don't know. That's ignorant and textbook prejudice.

Why would I have to know the person? Just the fact that he likes owning guns is enough. It's a specific mentality that makes you like those kind of things.

It sounds like you are calling us gun owners trigger happy idiots and borderline sociopaths.
Indeed I am.
There's no rational reason for you to say that about a person you don't know. That's ignorant and textbook prejudice.