Comments on: guns don’t kill people

By: Ravenwood

Ravenwood — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:18:16 +0000

Why weren’t they creeped out by the talking snowman or any of the lefty kooks.

By: Sailorcurt

Sailorcurt — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:19:34 +0000

The primary purpose of them is to kill.

I must respectfully disagree. The primary purpose of a properly employed firearm is not to cause harm, but to prevent it.

In some cases, the only way to prevent harm to oneself and one’s family is to cause harm to the aggressor, but that is not the primary purpose…the primary purpose is to prevent the aggressor from causing harm to you and yours.

Of course, in the hands of a murderer, the primary purpose may be to kill…but that comes back to your original (correct) premise that “the intent to kill rests on the person and not the object.”

By: Fodder

Fodder — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:46:52 +0000

Statistically speaking, fear of automobiles and power tools is more rational.
Far more death and injury from those than guns (in the US, anyway).

By: tkdkerry

tkdkerry — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:38:33 +0000

Why is it these numb-nuts are incapable of understanding that the philosophical purpose of a defensive firearm is to project strength? The ideal is that a show of sufficient strength will deter an attack and avoid violence altogether.

Oh, wait… my bad. I forgot that to the lefties “strength” is brutish and ugly, and an attribute only of those who drag their knuckles and want to kill everything they see.

By: Madrocketscientist

Madrocketscientist — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:13:54 +0000

No, SUVs are designed to guzzle gas (transporting people and cargo is merely a side benefit of guzzling gas).

Of course, Hummers are designed to kill since they are merely the civilian version of a military weapon (kinda like an AR-15).

By: #9

#9 — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:51:58 +0000

Makes about as much sense as saying SUVs only purpose is to kill people. A whole new mode of journalism has evolved with reporting of SUV accidents.

SUV runs over man…SUV rams building…SUV drags woman…

Reporters write like these SUVs are sentient beings determined to exterminate all of mankind.

All this time I thought SUV’s were just big station wagons used to haul kids and groceries from one point to another.

By: Pete Drum

Pete Drum — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:49:59 +0000

But a few did.
http://claytoncramer.com/gundefenseblog/blogger.html