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Aortik
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| quote: | Originally posted by XaNaX
your home is full of deadly weapons, isn't that obvious to you? Knives, baseball bats, candlesticks, a car, various chemical poisons, a length of rope, etc. I would venture to guess that my "deadly weapons" are more secured than some of the deadly weapons in your home. |
None of those things were designed with the sole and intentional purpose of being a deadly weapon though. A gun in the hands of anyone, even more so somebody trained in how to use one, bestows upon its weilder a ruthless precision in destroying its target from a safe distance. Common houshold appliances grant no such thing. Yes, there are many things that can be used by people to kill others... but a length of rope has never been a danger to a tenth of your graduating class.
Remember when that man threw a shoe at Bush? Wouldn't that have been a completely different scenario had he had a gun instead of a shoe? Oh, but a shoe *could* kill somebody if you sat them still and beat them to death with it!
A tool, living up to its intended purpose, is merely a tool. Yes, its utility is often subject to that of its weilder, so in some responsible, moral sense, people kill people, etc. But a gun's purpose is not peaceful in the least, it is a tool designed to kill, and this function is what is of worry. Nobody really gives a shit if you can justify owning one because paper targets need to die.
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