GL: Use of Firearms

[Bennett Bishop]

On Aug 23, 2007, at 8:04 AM, jmanley909 at aol.com wrote:


Firearms kill people, they were originally designed to kill people,  
and they have been refined over the centuries to do that job more  
efficiently, please remember, we are talking about a device that  
kills people, as in dead, gone forever, not getting up and walking  
away. They also maim people, horribly. In today's society, where TV,  
movies and video games portray firearms being used casually and  
frequently, with no "real" effects, some folks tend to think that  
life is like that.

Jack's commentary should be amended to state that firearms are a tool  
than can be used to kill and maim people, but, in and of itself, a  
firearm is innocuous.  It must have a user.  Users include good, as  
well as bad, people.

I have had guns (rifles, hanguns, and shotguns) in my home for some  
fifty years.  None of them has ever killed or maimed people.

As one person responded to a female anti-gun proponent who had  
accused him of being negligent for equipping adolescents with the  
ability to use fireams: "You are equipped to be a prostitute, but  
that does not mean that you are one".

Bennett



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