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Originally Posted by Crompsin
Okay, let's play with this statement and really kill the thread since it's going down-down-down like that Bruce Springsteen hit from when I was born.
I want someone to pick up an instruction manual for a firearm manufactured in the last 75 years and find a heading that says something about killing things (people). Funny, I've a working knowledge of over a hundred different firearms and I just haven't seen any product literature where my target pistol or deer rifle or concealed carry revolver or steel plate competition AR tells me to go and "kill things." Nope, it talks about safety, disassembly, and cleaning. I wonder why that is? Intended use, maybe? I wonder if the manufacturers of the Swiss Army knife had to change their EULA after OJ sliced and diced himself some Nicole Brown with one of their fine products? Probably not.
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I'm not quite sure what you're saying here. It sounds like you're questioning my assertion that guns are built to kill things, since because the manuals don't talk about killing things. (I'm going to say that without my usual disclaimer, and just see how much trouble that gets me into...)
I hope you're not then saying that the purpose of a gun is to be safe, to disassemble it, or to clean it, since that's what the manual talks about? That the whole point of having a gun is to take it apart and clean it?
On a related not that's not a direct response to El Crompo's comments above: I think that blurring the line between a weapon and a tool is one we do at great peril, as a society.