Blue, the unfortunate but irrefutable fact is that penises are firmly attached to the guys who brandish them. I am no Lorena Bobbitt, and so my answer would be that we should let the guys keep them.
I don't think your question represents a parallel situation with guns, however. Most penis use expresses love, causes babies to be conceived, or at the least, produces intense pleasure. Not only are guns NOT attached to the body, but they cause a lot of pain and death, very much more than penises do. Even guns' protective function is diminished by the mad rush for criminals to have better guns than the police, an escalation which is totally mad and which causes even more destruction.
While things are slowly changing, there are still areas of England and Ireland where the police are not armed with guns, and only the special squadrons on call have access to them. In America, according to a very interesting report on 60 Minutes I saw last night, the gun manufacturers deliberately design weapons they know are used by criminals to kill as viciously as possible. Mayor Daley of Chicago has brought suit against the gun manufacturers, and some of the really killer attorneys involved in the lawsuits against the tobacco companies are on board. It should be a very interesting legal squirmish, one which I hope will end with gun manufacturers becoming more socially conscious, and financially responsible for the damage their products do. |
