One of the side-effects of any sort of mass shooting is you’ll get a pile of idiots coming out of the woodwork spouting this line: “Guns are only designed to kill blah blah blah”. The usual rebuttals from the pro-gun side aren’t exactly Mensa level though. Usually the conversation goes like this:
Pro-Gun Dude: Cars kill more people than guns every year.
Anti-gun tool: But cars aren’t designed to kill, and guns are!
Pro-Gun Dude: Nuh uh! If guns are designed to kill, mine must be broken. Guns are designed to expel a projectile in a specific direction using expanding gasses!
Anti-gun tool: lolwut
Designed to kill
Here’s the thing that I think we’re missing out on. Yes, some guns were absolutely developed as military or hunting implements, which means regardless of how you beat around the bush, they’re designed for killing stuff. The problem is, that’s okay. As a species, many of our greatest developments in technology, medicine, and industry have come from a desire to kill each other more efficiently. Even the Internet that we’re using to argue on right now.
The problem I think isn’t that guns are designed to kill, but rather that the people who say “guns are designed to kill” cannot possibly wrap their minds around the concept of acceptable killing. Whereas those of us that choose to carry firearms accept and embrace the idea that some folks just need killing. We’d rather not be the person who carries their bullet, but the fact of the matter is that there’s evil in this world and sometimes the only way to fight evil is to shoot it in the face.
Anti-gun folks don’t want to live in that world. They want to solve their problems with Bono concerts and donating money to charities, because that’s safe. You don’t have to leave your house, or your computer, and you don’t have to actually do anything. You can feel good about yourself without really doing anything. And you know what? I’d like to live in that world too. The difference between and anti-gun person and me is that I realize that world is a fantasy.
Which is why I’m still carrying my guns.
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