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Originally Posted by llwhiteoutll
A firearm is a tool as well and just like all tools, a subset of the population will misuse that tool. If you look at the 2013 numbers, vehicle fatalities were 10.345/100,000; firearm fatalities were 10.64/100,000. Almost identical. It goes down even further to 3.55/100,000 if you only count homicide.
Firearms have plenty of legal, recognized purposes. Hunting, target shooting, competition, self defense (yes, even in Canada) and collecting. All legal and all uses that occur more frequently than misuse.
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What are guns designed to do? What are cars designed to do?
I'll give you a hint: One of them is designed to kill. Another hint: Not the car.
If you fail to notice a difference then I might as well be speaking to a brick wall.
This is just a small sample of the insane logic that reasonable Americans are up against I suppose.
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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