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Originally Posted by Zarathustra
You have to be delusional to think that guns are designed to shoot targets.
If you love shooting targets so much, buy a paintball gun. The colours of the paint also looks cool!
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I guess i am delusional then...what the hell else are they for?
Even if your target is another person...its still a target. That's why they are built, to hit what you are aiming for.
I have no guns, i dont particularly like guns, i dont want guns. Most of my American friends however, own and use guns... for target shooting. Sometimes that target is an animal, most often its a piece of paper in a shooting range. Never has it been another human with the exception of those that were in Vietnam or Iraq. Do they pose a threat to me? Not a bit.
Now those that have their guns illegally (IE..you know, criminals) do pose a threat to me and everyone else because of their intentions. Those intentions do not exist with 99% of the population however. I would hope that in the case of a problem where a bad guy has a gun and is using it in a malicious way, that a good guy with no ill intentions woudl have a gun to help stop that situation. Something inherently impossible if the good guys have their guns taken away.
So what so many propose here is that because there are really bad guys with really bad intentions, EVERYONE should have their property taken away from them in an effort to make things safer for everyone else. Its such a false and simplistic solution. The bad guys are not going to get rid of/register their weapons...whether they be assault rifles or Saturday night specials.
Bad people shoot others on purpose....not the guns they hold. Accidents happen for sure, but if that is reason enough to ban guns, its reason enough to ban hunting knives. Both are not intended for use on another human...but when or if that happens? Its the users fault, not the weapons.