Guns And The Laws That Govern Them

@oralloy,

So your "fact" is that a bullet will pass through the heart and spine and not kill?

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@parados,

parados wrote:

So your "fact" is that a bullet will pass through the heart and spine and not kill?

No.

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@parados,

I was just responding to, 'Yet you would have a very real problem with restricting gun ownership to just target shooting guns, wouldn't you?" Kind of supports your idea about why target shooting precedes killing.

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@oralloy,

So you agree that the purpose of a gun is to kill. You just don't want to say it.

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@parados,

Nonsense. I've already demonstrated that many guns do not have killing as their purpose.

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@oralloy,

No, you have demonstrated that very few guns do not have killing as their purpose.

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@parados,

While I don't know what exact portion of guns are used for self defense or target shooting, it is certainly quite a bit more than "very few".

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@oralloy,

Every single one of my guns is for target shooting and/or hunting. Not a single one of them was designed specifically to kill people. They could kill people, but so can my car, my bat, my hands, my knives, my axes, my 2x4's etc...

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@McGentrix,

That's disingenuous. They are designed to kill. Hunting is killing.

Cars are designed to transport people and goods. Your hands aren't designed, they evolved. Knives are designed to cut things. Axes to cut lumber. 2x4's to aid construction.

I don't understand the denialism. I was purely making a logical point about the 'sensibleness' of comparing guns to cars.

Admitting guns are designed to kill doesn't weaken your argument (at least not more than denying they are designed to kill).

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@hingehead,

hingehead wrote:

That's disingenuous.

Just because the Left finds facts to be inconvenient, that does not make it disingenuous to point out facts.

hingehead wrote:

They are designed to kill.

How many lives are lost when an Olympic target shooter wins a gold medal?

hingehead wrote:

Hunting is killing.

Hunting is killing game animals.

hingehead wrote:

I don't understand the denialism.

Simple. You said something that wasn't true, and we corrected you by pointing out the truth.

hingehead wrote:

Admitting guns are designed to kill doesn't weaken your argument

Always best to base your argument on the truth. Things work out so much better in the end.

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@oralloy,

You have argued when using a gun in self defense you should shoot through the heart and spine. Guns used in self defense are used to kill under your argument. Claiming they are not is disingenuous.

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@oralloy,

A gun designed to kill game animals is a gun designed to kill. You really are arguing a stupid line when you argue killing is not killing.

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@parados,

parados wrote:

You have argued when using a gun in self defense you should shoot through the heart and spine. Guns used in self defense are used to kill under your argument. Claiming they are not is disingenuous.

From a previous post:

The primary purpose of a self defense gun is rapid incapacitation.

For example, if shooting in self defense fatally wounded the attacker, but the attacker was able to fatally wound the defender before succumbing, that would be a self defense failure despite the attacker being killed.

But if shooting in self defense immediately halted the attack, even if the attacker survived to stand trial for his assault, that would be a self defense success despite the attacker surviving.

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@parados,

parados wrote:

A gun designed to kill game animals is a gun designed to kill.

Yes.

parados wrote:

You really are arguing a stupid line when you argue killing is not killing.

Luckily for me I've never argued that.

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@oralloy,

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've already demonstrated that many guns do not have killing as their purpose

I never looked to see whether any of my guns have a statement etched on the side that indicates whether that gun is for killing or not.

I wonder how youve "demonstrated " that many guns do not have killing as their purpose. Start with gun brand name and model number. You have too much confidence in your abilities to prove the unproveable.

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@farmerman,

farmerman wrote:

I wonder how youve "demonstrated " that many guns do not have killing as their purpose.

By pointing out classes of guns that have an entirely different purpose.

farmerman wrote:

You have too much confidence in your abilities to prove the unproveable.

I think I have just the right amount of confidence.

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@oralloy,

Quote:

The primary purpose of a self defense gun is rapid incapacitation.

You stated the best way to do this was to shoot through the heart and spine. Are you now arguing a gun should be used to shoot someone in the leg?

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@parados,

Next time, it'll be the foot. Wink

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@parados,

parados wrote:

oralloy wrote:
The primary purpose of a self defense gun is rapid incapacitation.

You stated the best way to do this was to shoot through the heart and spine.

Shooting in self defense is not to be done lightly. It should only be done when you are facing an imminent threat to your life and you have no other way to avoid the attack.

parados wrote:

Are you now arguing a gun should be used to shoot someone in the leg?

No.

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