Democratic congresswoman shot in Arizona.

[Kasz216]

mrstickball said:

Kasz216 said:

Mr Khan said:

This is quite odd. Western Pennsylvania is heavily hunting country, but i don't know anyone that seriously eats venison (or even likes it). If they eat the deer, it's for deer jerky, which is hardly any sort of serious sustenance.

 

Though this argument's gone severely off-topic. I'm no fan of guns in the home, just because of the tendency to lead to tragedy (mostly either suicidal or accidental), and i'm a stringent foe of guns that have no viable purpose other than aggressively killing lots of people (assault weapons and the like), but hunting i feel is ultimately a benign cultural thing, and should be left alone, though ideally i'd have some technique for isolating hunting rifles outside the home

Accidental I can see, though accidental gun deaths are very low.

But suicidal?  It's not like people say "Oh I want to kill myself, but darn it... I don't have a gun."

I would also mention that if those are his views (left of center), I would imagine he may not be in the type of kill-it-and-eat-it crowd, and is unlikely to know people that are serious about both hunting for food. I live close to him (central Ohio), and can say that we hunt likely as much as western PA, and everyone does it for food.

I'd also say he's totally underestimating Deer jerky.  It's not bad.  Healthier then Beef Jerky and more humane in anycase. 

Still I was trying to stick to the cons at the moment.  Which are far below the cons of many things legal, with less pros.  It's really illogical to be anti-gun and pro alchohol as I mentioned above... with the only reason really being "more people like beer." which is just... a dumb reason.

Heck, i'd be more suicides involve alchohol then guns.  Would those people have been able to kill themselves if they hadn't gotten themselves drunk for courage before hand?  Seems less likely then someone who was suicidal and drunk being able to kill themselves without a gun.