RE: How is a gun a 'tool'?
January 20, 2013 at 10:04 am
(This post was last modified: January 20, 2013 at 10:07 am by Ryantology.)
(January 20, 2013 at 9:40 am)A Theist Wrote: ...I focused on rifles because it's mainly assault rifles that Barack's administration and gun control advocates are targeting.
Which is laudable, but going after handguns should be the top priority. Obviously.
Quote: ...and you also said,Quote:Except there are no other tools used primarily to maim and kill people,...but in 2011, there were 323 murders committed with a rifle and 496 murders committed with hammers and clubs...maybe it doesn't matter to you how many people were murdered by hammers compared to rifles, but it mattered to the FBI, and their 2011 report proved, that in the wrong hands, a tool such as a hammer can also be used as a weapon to maim and kill people.
I used the word 'primarily'. See it up there? I take it you are not familiar with this word, because your posts repeatedly seem to ignore the fact that I use it.