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Originally Posted by Aleks
Do you know that police sharpshooters, military marksmen, future Olympians often get their start in amateur shooting sports like IPSC, IDPA, 3gun matches and such? There is an aspect to accuracy....I'm not sure every gun manufacturer rolls each firearm off the line with the explicit expectation of it to harm/maim individuals...that would be a little over the top wouldn't it? Self or home defense is a very legitimate reason to have a firearm, in places it's legal to so.....hunting and pest control are legitimate reasons to own many rifles in various calibres, and like a car everyone has their own tastes on how they look
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You are proving my point. I didnt say individuals, I said a living being. Pest control? To kill, harm a living being. Self defense? That would mean harming/killing a living being, whether a human attacker or a bear.
How is it over the top to suggest the explicit purpose of a gun is to harm or maim its target? That is exactly the point. The fact that it is also used for target practice is secondary. Add to the fact that the paper targets are often a sillouette of a human being.
You could also use NERF toy guns for to achieve hitting a target, so why not use those.
Amateur shooting sports are not the primary reason guns are developed or manufactured; it is a byproduct of the manufacturing of guns.
Guns have one explicit purpose, and there's no way you or anyone else can get around that.