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To: rktman
Guns are not objects, and I doubt we can change the way our country deals with them by thinking of guns as merely potentially dangerous things that need to be regulated, no different than unstable chemicals or cold medicines. Guns are death waiting to happen, and Everytown's survey is a quaint eulogy for those who have already passed.
3 posted on 07/08/2014 12:37:36 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
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To: Second Amendment First
Guns are not objects ... uns are death waiting to happen, ...

Gracious! This creature "reasons" like some sort of third-world pantheistic heathen. It's an inanimate object, not some sort of evil totem or talisman.

9 posted on 07/08/2014 12:52:16 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: Second Amendment First

Guns are tools, and as such are value neutral. Guns values, like any tool is based on how a person uses it, and even then are more a reflection of the person using it than anything intrinsic to the tool itself. Guns are not good or evil. guns are an extension of an individual. if a individual is good, healthy and lawful and has a gun then that gun is likely to be used in a lawful way, and vice versa. I know this sounds simplistic, but it is an argument I have successfully used against those who believe guns are intrinsically evil or bad. the analogy i have used is this: suppose you have a toaster. nobody believes toasters are evil or dangerous, right? It’s a device that toasts bread. If, however you were to drop said toaster into your spouses bath while they were bathing it would be quite lethal. Is that toaster now “evil”?. No, almost all people respond that the person who dropped the toaster in the bath are “evil”. It is the same with guns. They do not create violence. People create violence. Now guns can certainly facilitate violence if misused. However if properly used guns can also deter and stop violence. I think some of the issue with guns is the naive belief by liberals that somehow if they were able to magically make all of them disappear tomorrow that violence and crime would stop. But the truth of that is humans were beating the shit out of each other long before guns came along. I think it’s easier for liberals , who tend to be secular humanists to blame things rather than people for problems.If you take away the thing, however and the problem persists then by process of elimination the cause of the problem is people. Its true: people suck. but the first step in solving any problem is understanding the cause.

CC


21 posted on 07/08/2014 1:18:53 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
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