I understood the original post to be a query for perspectives you could not produce from within. It makes sense to me. Not everyone can conceive of everything without some kind of experience.Originally Posted by Cheese
What chaps my glutes is when someone is unable to discern the need for such a device and then projects his equivocation on the rest of us; often times dismissing valid reasons via pedantic condescendsions.
In this case, Adrian, you are unale to grasp the need for such a thing. In a perfect world none of could. But we live in a world with an increasingly present evil element not content to destroy other evil beings, but to snatch the lives, freedom and property of the innocent.
Each tool in a chest has a specific purpose. A 12mm box end wrench will loosen the same fastener as a 12mm socket; similarly will a pair of pliers. However each tool is designed to be most effective under specific circumstances. The same applies to firearms. Their various calibers, configurations and capacities are designed to accomplish a specific task under specific circumstances.
Some tools are rarely needed. They sit in the chest at the ready for that one task when their services are indispensable. I have, when cleaning my tool chest, removed a tool I rarely use and put it away somewhere. Years later when I need it, the chances are pretty certain that I will not be able to find it and will be left to the impotence of improvisation or modification. It is then when the value of that tool is most poignant and the frustration at my shortsightedness the most accute.
Clearly, you are not suggesting that by projection the rest of society may not have EBRs nor do I think you are shortsighted on this. Having asked the question initially bears witness to that. Ultimately it boils down to 'It is better to have and not need than to need and not have' and being a preexistent right, it is recognized by the constitution and ostensibly guaranteed by the .gov......