NiftyNiblick
1960s Chick Magnet
This nation is socially regressive with or without gun ownership.
But you're right about the direction in which the facts are pointing, though.
We are an inferior species that deserves to go extinct.
There's no reason for "sporting firearms" to exist because in spite of what the enthusiasts claim to the contrary, there is nothing about the shooting of firearms that can be considered a sport.
Especially hunting.
How does using the clever technology available to hunters today, to stalk dumb animals in the wild minding their own business, then from a great distance, firing a high caliber lead projectile into their rib cage, constitute a sport?
Nothing sporting about it.
If people want to hunt, let them learn how to use a bow and arrow.
I have personally never hunted.
I used to shoot cans and bottles when I was a kid,
only instead of doing it with a scruffy .22,
I did it with handsome and expensive high end firearms which I enjoyed collecting.
Obviously, I also left the city to do it.
However, I do eat meat so I have no moral high ground to criticize hunters.
I just don't like to do my own wetwork.
There's excellent meat at the butcher shop, all ready to cook.
Also, I don't believe bow hunting is humane, but claim no expertise on the subject.
In the end, if people enjoy shooting guns, then they should have guns, whether they're good for society or not.
I'm only opposed to the private ownership of para-military weaponry like AR-15s because the deranged can kill too many people too fast with them.