"Warren" wrote in message
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I can see it clear as day: an Attack Golden Retriever,
more powerful than a bag of marshmallows, meaner than
a week-old baby, capable of ripping you apart at the
slightest provocation....just like your average 38...

No, the Goldens are just supposed to be useless. The Chihuahua is
supposed to be the mean one. some of those things are vicious ankle
biters! g

On a serious note, I think the reason why you dismiss and make fun
of such examples is that you are afraid to examine the logic and
rationale behind them. Doing so may shatter your beliefs in things
that you have long accepted as being right, proper or even factual.
I think that scares you and is why that it is such a problem for you
do anything but criticize or make fun of them. I am not making the
comparison that golden retrievers are as dangerous as firearms, I am
comparing perceptions of usefulness. I am saying that just because
you or Willi view concealed weapons as being useless, that doesn't
make them so for everybody else. I am saying that it is just as
wrong as the notion that you should be able to tell others what to
drive, eat, etc.

There are times where we as individuals use such rationale to set
limits on how we function as a society. Collectively we view murder
as wrong, believe abusing children is bad and limit other behaviors
as dangerous, offensive, etc. There does come a point when some
individuals take this too far IMO, try to force their vision on
everyone else and become tyrants of sorts. I place a great deal of
value in our Constitution and agree that it needs to be tweaked here
and there as we grow, learn and advance as a nation. I don't think
that just because I have the "right to bear arms" that I should be
allowed to drive a fully loaded and functional M-1 Abrams around or
that it should entitle me to a M-2 .50 cal machine gun. It seems we
simply disagree on where "usefulness" stops and "uselessness" begins
or where the benefits outweigh the negatives. Through the course of
this argument, I feel we have narrowed the extreme gap that
initially existed between our views. If nothing else, I hope that
you at least left with a better understanding of an opposing opinion
as I did. To me, that is far more important than ultimately
"winning."
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Warren

Wow. What an interesting pile of assumptions. I asked a question about a
dog's nature.