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They have no other use. If you're attracted to them, I'm inclined to think it's because you're attracted to the power they confer. Even if you convince yourself you never intend to use that power, 'at some level' you entertain the possibility that circumstances might arise that would allow you to use it 'justifiably'. Hey, I can identify. I don't have a gun, but I'd kind of like one. I'd like to feel a bit more powerful. But I'm not going to buy one today, because I think guns are for killing people and I don't want to give myself that illusion of power. I think it is ultimately an illusion. Also I don't want to buy a gun for the same reason I don't want to buy a Hummer, or the same reason I buy organic produce, because as a consumer my small decisions support bigger things, and I want them to be the right things.
