If you outlaw guns, then only....

[Urbane Guerrilla]

...except for the eating it for dinner part. This is done even by African big game hunters: hunter goes home with a distinctive souvenir of a unique time in his life and deeds and nearby villages get the meat. Hey, it's free... pygmy tribes near the Okavango Delta never had a recipe for elephant before the early twentieth century. The critters were just too damned big.

Pangloss, the language of gun aficionados is the language of the hobbyist. Compare the tenor of the prose of auto magazines, modelers' magazines, and gun magazines. The parallels will be striking if you haven't tried this comparison.

I shoot a little blackpowder myself -- a .54 caliber Italian Hawken replica.

Is the use and keeping of guns attacked by the anti-self-defense set? Without question. Would you expect anything other than a determined defense against such a determined attack? We have Spexxvet as an example of the hoplophobic complex, the mindset, of the ragers against defense. He displays every symptom of this problem that I can remember, and I don't know if he still expects persons of good morals for bad situations to be persuaded by his neurotic insistence, but we shall not submit, not now, not ten thousand years from now, nor ten million years from now. He shall yield, he shall be defeated, or he will be left in isolated absurdity, disregarded by all. Either outcome is acceptable to those of us actually happy with the idea of resisting evil regardless of its degree or its intensity.