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Originally posted by Lebell
The problem I have with this argument is that "lethal" can be applied to many products; it all depends on how they are used.
Baseball bats, tire irons, kitchen knives, all can be lethal weapons when used as such.
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I've never liked these comparisons, they've always seemed very straw-man to me. A much better comparison in my opinion is to compare guns to explosives. Just like guns, explosives have many legal purposes, all of which are non-lethal (of course). Collapsing buildings, building roads, destroying UXO. And, like guns, they have the capacity to kill large numbers of people.
Obviously this is an argument over which reasonable people can disagree, but I laugh whenever someone compares a
<img src="http://daphne.palomar.edu/jsaw/prints/gun2.jpg" alt="Saturday Night Special">
to a
<img src="http://www.planet.eon.net/~matth/k_images/kitchen/chef.jpg" alt="Kitchen Knife">