Splinter News: You Don’t Need Guns

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

Like the vast majority of people who are reading this, I enjoy firearms. I have them and shoot them, though not nearly as often as I’d like to. (I’d need a range in the backyard to be able to make that happen.)

However, even if I didn’t particularly enjoy shooting, I’d still have guns. Why? Because I recognize there are bad people in this world and the police won’t be able to get there in time to do more than put up yellow tape and draw an outline around the body.

Not everyone thinks that way, though. There are those who are convinced they know what we need better than we do.

The vast majority of Americans do not need a firearm, and yet they own them anyway, and continue to use them to kill.

Oh, well then. That’s settled. I guess it’s time to shut down the site and all of us go home. Some rando at a far-left site has declared we don’t need guns, so that’s that.

Dipstick.

That’s precisely how this screed begins. Not only does he claim we don’t need guns, but that we have them and we’re murdering people with them. Well, if that’s …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms