Setting aside for a moment the fact that the San José Mercury News reports a dramatic drop in such attacks as of 2011, finds no reports of a death in seven years (at the time), or the fact that the California Department of Fish and Wildlife only reports 14 verified attacks between 1986-2013 (3 of them fatal) for the entire state (making your argument complete bullshit, btw), please indicate how handguns for everyone coast-to-coast is in any way a rational policy to combat this “threat”. I know you Second Amendment types were getting desperate, but really, grow a fucking brain.

I’m really not sure how many people in my country got shot because they called someone’s dog a bad name. I can tell you a drunk asshole in yours shot his friend last Saturday for trying to stop him from driving, which makes even less sense.

I can also tell you anyone idiotic enough to try this in my country would have a hard time of it since we have strong gun control laws, and a ridiculously tiny fraction of the USA’s yearly gun deaths. We don’t make it easy for drunks (or anyone) to kill, see?

I don’t wish and hope for an utopia where violence doesn’t exist… but one look at the USA’s gun casualties is enough to convince me I practically live in one. In my country, having the power to kill someone with a flick of your finger isn’t a “right.” My country is rational about guns; the notion that mass availability of tools made for killing people quickly, efficiently, effortlessly and at a distance will result in mass deaths is not that hard to grasp once you put down the six pack of Budweiser.

Still, you want your freedom and your guns? Keep ’em. Sleep tight, cradle your piece, and watch out for mountain lions who might come to ring your doorbell. Some of them fuckers like to pretend they are from UPS, and will pounce once you open the door.

“Bigoted” and “Racist” are indeed different. Can’t help but notice you never denied being a racist, though.

Crime in Canada is lower than crime in the US, period. Compare all you like. Compare interracial crime rates or same race crime rates. Go with absolute numbers or with per capita. Look at the number of those crimes (irregardless of race) that involve guns. The difference in numbers is still ridiculous.

You hammer the point that you haven’t stated what your position is, and that I am attacking you unfairly, putting words in your mouth. It’s starting to sound more than a little hypocritical, though. What is your position on the question, exactly? Still haven’t gotten a clear answer from you. What are you hiding behind, exactly? You make a crack about me not wanting to name my home country (which I did, btw, in the next post). Are you a stalwart supporter of the 2nd amendment or aren’t you? Do you own guns? If so, which kind?

Do answer honestly. I think some of the readers here believe that your claim that you’re merely hiding behind principle is bullshit. I know I do.

You’ve got a hard on for that dog killer comment, I can see. You’re a dog lover, I can tell. So am I, actually. I can tell you’re not a rational argument lover though, because you keep blabbering the same shit over and over, while managing not to address a single of the many points I bring to defend my position. The best you an do is “I never said this” or “I never said that.” You don’t say much of anything, do you?

I’ve shot down so many of your “arguments” I’ve lost count. Talking about Chicago — wow! Again, an attempt by you to shift the debate back to absolute numbers, not per capita gun crimes. It’s statistical bullshit.

Do you understand what “bullshit” means, right? Or do I have to define it for you?

Not one word from you on per capita crime rates (very telling). No one word form you on how mass availability of guns increases the chances that you will be the victim of gun crime. Not one word on how the poster absolutely suggests a glib black-and-white solution to a complex problem.

No, wait! Let me guess! You are going to claim you don’t have an opinion, you’re just here to call me a gun hater, yet have no official opinion! Riiiight.

Do you watch Fox News by any chance? Do you Tivo that shit? Do you rehearse it before you go to sleep?

You mean the vociferous vitriol you heaped upon me on your very first post wasn’t a clue to your position? Of course not. Do continue to claim you are merely here defending principle, and an innocent victim, unfairly attacked by moi, the bigot (and convince exactly no one). Continue to defer all direct questions as to your actual opinions. Do keep up this fantasy of yours where I claimed that people are allowed to be unlawful.

I’ve asked — quite directly — what your actual positions are regarding gun laws and gun ownership in my last post, but I suppose doing so would “reveal” what every single person with half a brain reading this thread already knows. An alternate explanation would be that you are so insecure about your positions that you won’t even voice them on an anonymous forum.

One thing I am certain of: screaming that I never asked via use of ALL CAPS when I did exactly that in the post above makes you look really, really dumb.

I agree. Perhaps I was being too generous when I called your claims “arguments.” Still, the nonsense you shoveled into this discussion (among others, population difference between the US and Canada, the racial causes for gun crime and the 500 murders in Chicago) are clear attempts to justify your views. They also demonstrate that you adhere to racist rhetoric, and have no handle whatsoever on basic statistical notions.

I’m left to wonder if you need to read your prescription drug labels more closely, or if you need to redo 6th grade to learn what “argument” means. Probably both.

You saved the best for last when you talked about having a sense of morality, since you expressed a fervent wish for my (albeit self-inflicted) death in your very first post. For all of my rhetoric, that is a line I haven’t crossed — while you did at the very onset of what passes for debate in your world.

That first post betrayed several things at once: the rational tenuousness of your position, your inability to tolerate dissenting opinions, the desperation and anger you feel when your ideas are challenged, and your desire to see any dissenter on the subject not merely removed from the discussion, but removed from life.

I hope for the sake of everyone around you that the only guns you’ll ever touch are plastic ones; otherwise, your rage might boil over so much that you’ll go from wishing for a person’s suicide to enthusiastically “assisting” them with a 9mm.

Regardless, I really can’t spend any more time educating a a racist, morally bankrupt idiot of your ilk, so feel free to have the last word if you wish. Do a little happy dance too, if you want.

As for me, I’ll try to be a bit more discerning next time, and cross pens with someone who (instead of typing frantically on a keyboard, stream-of-consciousness style) will demonstrate at least some knowledge of basic sentence structure.