[mvpel]

Do you own a firearm?

There is a fundamental difference between a weapon that propels a piece of metal at high speed in a specific direction, and a weapon which is designed to inflict fatal burns across a thousand square miles. Surely you can agree on that point, yes?

And I do own a number of firearms, but that's irrelevant.

[mvpel]

Just so we're clear - a thousand square miles is about the size of the entire state of Rhode Island excluding Narragansett Bay.

[Grizzled Bear]

There is a fundamental difference between a weapon that propels a piece of metal at high speed in a specific direction, and a weapon which is designed to inflict fatal burns across a thousand square miles. Surely you can agree on that point, yes?

A generation of Americans who would not have been born had their fathers taken part in a land invasion of Japan would find you immoral.

And I do own a number of firearms, but that's irrelevant.

A handgun held by a homeowner protecting his family is no more moral then the handgun used by a rapist. It's a tool, just like a nuclear weapon.

Don't you have some whales to save?