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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
so what is it to be? are we being lied to? I think not. You cannot have it both ways. Guns are either designed to kill, or they are built to provide self defense.
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What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is what I like to call
political denseness. Our friend dksuddeth is being deliberately obtuse when it furthers his political agenda.
I have a question for you, dk, and I invite you to engage with this question as honestly as possible. HOW precisely does a gun provide self defense? By threatening... WHAT exactly? If I want to defend myself from you, and I aim a gun at you, I'm keeping you from harming me by saying to you, in effect, "Come any closer and I'll...." ... WHAT, exactly? Scratch your back? File your taxes? WHAT?
This is the problem with the gun debate. I don't think either side deals honestly in it. I genuinely don't have a dog in the fight--I just want people to say it like it is. A gun is MEANT to wound, injure, maim, or kill something. I don't have a moral problem with that, it's just the truth. (In fact, I think having a moral problem with that in the abstract is as absurd as saying "a gun is a tool and you blame the gun for the violence".) You can't turn a screw with a gun. You COULD hammer a nail with one, but I don't recommend it. To treat it as a tool at the same level as say a power sander is just absurd.