Big Jim P wrote:Papait wrote:
when you use it for self defence or hunting your sole purpose is to kill.
either to kill somebody who may or may not pose a threat to you or when hunting to kill an animal. Guns were made to kill. You cannot possibly claim anything else, all guns are meant to kill, but some people may use them for other things but its core remains the same
In self defense, the purpose is not to kill but to end and attack. If the attacker is killed in the process, that is merely collateral damage.
Not all guns are meant to kill. Target pistols and rifles for instance.
In any event, not all killing is wrong. Killing for food is not wrong. Killing in self defense is not wrong.
Edit: and I specifically said Homicide, not killing. There is a difference.
But the problem is that we don't just fear homocide, many times guns cause innocents to die is not homocide.
It's accidents while handling the gun, mistaking somebody for an attacker (like with Pistorius) or somebody to feel threathened while stressed. Guns can pose a big threat to the user and may never be used by civilians for anything else than target practice.
or in rare cases rebellion(saying this for future reference if I ever state my support for rebellion), but then it is used for killing as well, but in a millitary role