chrissie said:
There is nothing in the User agreement about joking replies. I highly doubt seuss is being malicious in any way so there is no need to get angry and accusatory.
Malicious in the value of serious lack of contribution to a valid discussion. I can vouch to say that every post I have seen about firearms in the US has been hit with nothing but page after page of seriously off-topic posting relating to why gun's are sooooo bad from the people that know almost nothing about the issue at hand. Even more so from those not even in a country that has legal gun ownership, and not even in the US.
It is troublesome to have to sift through 9 pages of garbage, because they are so animated against another person's interests, but cry foul when someone else disturbs another person's interest. My firearms do not harm anyone not breaking into my house. I do not use any illegal substances, and do not actively let my anger, or hatred of anyone group or person control me at time of the day, and in fact I can not even get in touch with the majority of my firearms as they are at the Armory on the base. I use them for my training only. The only one at my house is my CCW handgun, which I do have the license for.
In fact I'm willing to bet more people die from drug and alcohol related causes than by firearms every year. Remember tobacco kills a lot of people every year, and alcohol does as well.
In the end I think some people are only happy if they are complaining about others.
I try not to, but the attitude towards frearms is merely based on utter fear that your mortallity is too fragile to be threatened by a happenstance of a stray bullet. It's less likely than dying of drug use though, and so much that it's ridiculous to assume firearms are too dangerous.