(August 5, 2019 at 1:35 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: These are the sorts of arguments that let nutters prattle on endlessly and do nothing to advance the cause of effective gun regulations.
Guns are no more explicitly designed to kill people than a car is. Some guns, some cars, sure...but so what?
It isn’t what a thing was designed for that’s giving us an issue. Sporting rifles were designed for shooting ranges and hunting trips.
That’s what these “assault-style” rifles generally are.
Guns explicitly designed to kill don’t actually cause us much shit. The majority of handguns are designed for stopping power and ease of use, not lethality.
That neither are designed for a mass shooting rampage doesn’t stop them from being employed in the same anymore than being designed explicitly for that purpose seems to cause those particular firearms to be well represented in mass shootings.
Let’s run with the car thing. Suppose we saw that a particular model was overwhelmingly represented in deaths. We wouldn’t refer to what the car was designed for as to why it should be changed, regulated, or banned.
We’d refer to that.
I take your point. I still think it’s a terrible analogy.
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