Are you in your 20s? To call being available by phone "exploitation" is pathetic.
Then obviously you've never been an situation where you were exploited in that situation. It certainly can be a gross intrusion onthe rest of your life to be expected to be on call 24/7 for no additional recompense. If you don't believe me give post your phone number here and offer free tech support.
Simple facts are that gun control reduces gun crime but increase violent crime.
Simple facts sound rather questionable to me. Your argument about the unique circumstances is specious as well. The biggest problem your borders have is leaking guns to other countries.
You realize a large portion of our 'poor history of wild animal conservation' is a direct result of factory farming, right?
Absolutely wrong, it's our tendency to kill and eat them. Hence the complete lack of megafauna. No doubt you'll be telling me next whale numbers are going down because we need the space for fisheries.
If guns were handed down from aliens
From the point of view of the hunted they might as well be.
Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated. -- R. Drabek