Thread: Diane Sawyer's Sensationalist Crap

Originally Posted by faesce

i know it's unrealistic, but by me saying what i said in my last post i'm trying to illustrate a certain level of recklessness involved in using guns in general, especially in the home, that people ignore. i dont hate guns and i think they're great and dandy, i'm more focusing on the gun user when saying what i'm saying

Well, I mean, I agree with you that people shouldn't be reckless or cavalier about gun use in any setting, including in the home. That doesn't really have anything to do with your original point that pistols are the only acceptable home defense weapon, and carbines are only useful for Tony Montana. Again, using a carbine for home defense makes stray shots LESS likely. Using a 5.56mm carbine for home defense makes stray shots less likely, and also makes it less likely that any stray shots that do occur will penetrate very far through interior walls. But the 5.56mm carbine is "an assault weapon" (a term you still haven't defined) so you say that no-one has any possible reason to use it. I'm saying that the fact of the matter is that, contrary to your original claims ITT, so-called "assault weapons" do have legitimate uses like any other gun--they are not just murder machines.

Originally Posted by faesce

the fire extinguisher can't kill your family by some freak accident though, which is my entire point

Yeah, but that doesn't have anything to do with the point of the analogy, which was that it's good to try to prevent bad things from happening, but it's also good to be able to react to them if they do happen despite your best efforts. It's not an either/or situation. You don't have to choose between prevention OR reaction. You can have both.