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Guns make more sense when you look at them as an insurance policy or maintenance fee. (Ugly but usable analogies.)

Guns saved us from Hitler and guns saved us from the Russians in the 50-70ies.

Cars on the other hand kills way more people and should be banned except for people who can document that they need it ;-)

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Cars kill people in accidents[1]. Guns are used for this on purpose. By your logic, we should also ban food because it feeds the people using the cars and the guns. Guns can still be used in the military, nobody ever argued that (vis-a-vis to you comment about Hitler & the russians). And btw, about those russians, they found new ways (tools invented by the americans) to screw with the world, didn't they? How are guns defending us now?

[1] in recent years, terrorists have been using cars to kill people too, but not the same extent.

> nobody ever argued that (vis-a-vis to you comment about Hitler & the russians).

This part of the discussion started with the claim that gun producers were evil by definition.

That seems to include everyone including if they only sell to armed forces.

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