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Originally Posted by Azure
Target shooting causes harm?
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Are you and Azure seriously trying to claim that the main purpose of a gun is to shoot targets? Come on. You're a smart guy, Azure, I normally enjoy your takes even if I don't necessarily agree with all of them, but this is absurd.
Let's go through a non-exhaustive list of intended purposes for both cars and firearms.
Firearms:
Shooting targets (I even put it first for you and mikey)
Self-defense
Harming people
Hunting
To intimidate
Automobiles:
Transportation
Status symbol
This is the difference, and I can't believe you can't see it. Even if you could argue that the main purpose of a firearm is target practice (which it is not) and not to shoot at people, the fact remains that absolutely nowhere on the list of intended uses of an automobile is something that causes harm to others.
How can you even compare banning guns to banning automobiles? It's absurd.