On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 19:59:47 GMT, wrote:
On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 19:36:56 GMT, Bay Area Dave wrote:

I've shot a variety of rifles and pistols and haven't yet
used a person as a target!

There are hundreds of guns designed for target shooting.
Assault rifles and large caliber handguns are designed for one purpose. To shoot
people. If you aren't shooting people then you are using the gun for a purpose
for with it wasn't designed.

And if you're typing on a computer, you're using circuit boards for
a purpose for which they weren't designed; they were first used in
guided missiles. Initial design purpose is irrelevant to legitimate
use of a technology.

In fact the 45 was adopted by the military so officers could shoot and kill, at
close range, their own men for cowardice.

Cite, please?

But will your steak knife travel through several walls and kill the neighbors
child two doors down?
A steak knife is designed to cut a steak not kill people.
An assault weapon has a single purpose, to kill other people.

I have many devices classified by the government as "assault weapons", yet
I do not use them to kill people.

It serves no other
purpose. Shooting paper targets shaped like people is the behavior of the
mentally ill.

Oooooookay, but a round target is OK with you? I mean, shooting at a
piece of wood pulp with one shape of ink on it is baaaaaad, but it's OK
if it's round?

BTW, put a human shaped paper target up in you yard and go **** on it once a day
and see how quickly the cops are at your door.g

What does ****ing have to do with target shooting?

But shooting them is considered normal.
Only in America.

You seem to be humanizing a paper target, based on the shape of the
ink printed on it. This is irrational.