On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 18:40:26 -0600, Dean Hoffman
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On 12/23/12 4:15 PM, Arms and the Man wrote:
Oren wrote:

Cars, cutlery, toasters. The design and cost of all retail products and
services is a balance - overwhelmingly in favor of benefit, making great
efforts to reduce risk. Personal firearms exist outside this balance -
forever given idiosyncratic exception to their cost, their toll, their
liability upon society.

A gun accurately shooting a bullet where it is aimed is doing its
job. It isn't defective.
A toaster electrocuting someone is defective since it wasn't designed
to do that.
A five foot tall woman with a toaster won't stop a six foot plus
potential rapist.

"Don't come any closer or I'll toast your ass!"