Ireland bans handguns

[Lunar]

Good news. The ''right'' to bear arms is one of the biggest aberrations of the world. The right to kill people, too? Don't say than you use them for hunting, nobody hunts with an handgun.

Self-defense, I assume, is the implied right associated with hand-guns.

[Lunar]

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Self-defense, I assume, is the implied right associated with hand-guns.

ftr, I'm not aware of any instances here where anyone has defended their actions by claiming they shot their handgun at someone else in self-defence.

Well, you're not aware of anyone owning a handgun, so it's understandable that you're also not aware of people using it for defense   Yeah, y'all are depicting them as so rare and niche that it's unlikely such a story would be common. 

But...in talking about the "right to own a hand-gun" -- I'm pretty sure that the basis is not hunting, the strawman I was responding to of someone believing in handguns for rabbit hunting or what have you.