Maybe it is just something about the perverse who want to equate things with their peckers. Sorry, I can't be responsible for the way your mind works---or doesn't work, for that matter. Why do people want insurance? Because their privy member is too short? Makes about as much sense as your statement. People who want to kill generally find a way to do it, even if they have to pack explosives around their bodies (little weenies and all) and blow themselves and everybody around them to smithereens. SOME PEOPLE like living and the protection a firearm affords. Yeah, and some of us like to kill things like game animals. Are you squeamish? You want someone else to do your killing for you? I pity you. And as for seventeen hundred and something, some things, like the truth, never go out of style. It worked then and it works now.