"As a white American male, Carl is a lot more likely to shoot himself than anything else. "

Nonsense! Carl and many others, like olddude, are probably quite careful and competent when handling weapons... and it has nothing to do with "having small dicks". It 'may' have to do with an excess of testosterone, but that is a problem in lots of places. Some express it by collecting guns, some by making nasty posts in online forums.

The problem is all the not-so-careful, stupid, bigoted, aggressive idiots who are able to get guns thru the same ridiculously lax laws that allow them to Carl & others.

I do not approve of Carl, Dan, and various others who have debated this in Mudcat for a few years, having so many guns, but I would feel safe around most of them, even when I knew they were 'carrying'. That is quite apart from my fear & disgust with the myriads of others I don't know who treat guns like they did playing games at 10 years old!

If I could wave a magic wand, I'd soon have only hunters, ranchers who need to control vermin, police and a few carefully screened others who demonstrate a **need** able to access most weapons.... but we are far past that except as a fantasy.

   Gee... it must be nice to have such simple views of the world's problems. Too bad simple solutions¹ are not also on the menu.



1.simple solutions- like when Will Rogers was asked in the 1940s- "What can we do about the German submarines?"


paraphrased:
"Simple." replied Will. "Boil the ocean!"
"Oh c'mon Will, that's nonsense, how could we boil the ocean?"
"Oh, I'm just the idea man," Will said, "We have technical experts for the details."