All firearms are for Superiority by someone suffering from Inferiority. — DifferentiatingEgg
In Alaska (which is an American territory), some sparely populated villages do not have traditional roads that can be navigated by vehicles during certain times of the year or certain levels of severe weather. Villagers traveling to and from certain villages often for miles at a time can face life and death risk if accosted by grizzly bears or other wild animals that are common and known to frequent said areas of wilderness. Do you suggest they simply get eaten? :chin: — Outlander
sparely populated villages — Outlander
Long guns are a different conversation from handguns — Hanover
you might be overstating the danger of getting eaten by a bear in Alaska. There is an average of 11 bear attacks per year in all of North America [...] Your chances of a bear attack (and not necessarily dying from it) are 1 in 2.1 million. — Hanover
But I get it, the poster said all guns were bad, so you just had to come with a single counterexample to disprove the "all." — Hanover
It's a state, not a territory. — frank
you pick up a fire arm when you require superiority — DifferentiatingEgg
Control, though, is tricky for one reason only: The enforcement of gun control requires gun use. I'm unsure I need to explain why that's tricky. — AmadeusD
So by, "Making guns scarce," one actually means, "Making guns scarce for one group while making them readily available for another group. — Leontiskos
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