Glamour wrote:Galloism wrote:Anytime a person comments on a large debatable sociopolitical issue and says "it's that simple", one should be immensely skeptical.
This part of the conversation was particularly about the design of guns as deadly weapons with no other real function. When they are shot at inanimate objects you could argue they're not deadly. But neither are they when someone with bad aim misses a person they're shooting at. Their design is not altered by where one chooses to aim them.
Not all guns. Not one of the many air rifles that I've used to teach many more children target shooting was designed to kill anything, for example. They could do, if horribly misused, but that certainly isn't the design intention. Many guns are designed to kill (many of them to kill animals, some to kill humans), but not all.
Dyakovo wrote:A quick observation:
Australia has significant dangerous wildlife and some of the strictest gun control laws in the world, yet somehow they haven't been overrrun by crocodiles? Or criminals for that matter....
Clearly the criminals and crocodiles are all busy fighting each other.