Nightshade wrote:Yes, they are completely impractical! Are you seriously going to sit there and tell me that biathlon has some practical purpose? I suppose if you're a Norwegian peasant farmer, maybe. What's next, you going to say that curling is a practical application because it teaches people to sweep well?
The Homer Simpson parallels here are dead on the money, you don't stir your coffee or pound nails with a pistol. Sure, you like target shooting, but what's practical about that? It trains you to shoot your weapons well, and the weapons you've purchased are for killing, plain and simple. They have no other reason for existing.
No here has said that you don't have a constitutional right to own firearms, and I don't think you're in a position to tell me the consensus of the voting public. Every time someone has asked you why you own so many guns, you get pissy and say "because I can". Well, great, but that's not a real reason and it makes you sound like a petulant third grader.
So now you want to argue about what you consider practical? Get the fuck out of here.
He asked for a practical use for guns, outside of their primary use. He didn't say, tell me a use for guns that NightShade and I find practical.
Furthermore, I don't get pissy about anything any of you nobodies on the internet have to say. However, I do find it particularly humorous that people so removed from someone's life can come to such ridiculous conclusions, just because said someone owns guns.
I've stated the reasons why I enjoy firearms. All of those reasons are "practical" to me and many others. I'm sorry none of those reasons fit your stereotypical fantasies of some gun nut going on a killing spree at a local big-box store.