On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 11:54:51 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:

On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 11:30:51 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:

On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 05:41:04 -0500, "David R. Birch"
wrote:

On 7/26/2015 5:39 PM, Ed Huntress wrote:

Now, about "irrational" fear of guns. According to many sources, there
are a little over 600 accidental shooting deaths per year, and WISQARS
reports between 14,000 and 19,000 nonfatal, accidental injuries.

How irrational do you think those fears really are?

Guns are generally very dangerous devices. I was a certified rifle
instructor and taught gun safety in several environments. For anyone
who has little exposure to guns, fear looks like a rational reaction.
Their original and still primary purpose, after all, is killing things
-- mostly people.

Odd. I respect what guns can do, but they are no more inherently
dangerous than any other inanimate object. I fear guns in the sense that
some people can be dangerous with guns, but that is not an irrational
fear, quite the contrary. I fear hammers in the sense that some people
can be dangerous with hammers, but that is not an irrational fear, quite
the contrary.

I agree that guns were and are designed for killing, yet mine have only
done so to kill deer while I've had them. I respect their potential for
destruction, but I don't irrationally fear it.

David

SOME guns are designed to kill..others are not.

However a claw hammer is designed to drive nails and remove
nails...yet they kill very well..and quite often.

Gunner

Designed to kill?

Yup. That was their original purpose, and still the purpose of the
large majority of guns that are sold. Period.


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Oooooh!! Evil Assult guns!!

Oooooh! Evil Assault gun owners!!!

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etc etc etc.

A firearm is designed to project one or more projectiles with each
pull of the trigger. Period. Nothing more, nothing less.

Gunner

Yes, and the target guns wouldn't ever have existed without the guns
designed for the original purpose. And the target guns exist in
relatively small numbers. The people who buy Glock .40 cal handguns
aren't buying them to shoot squirrels.

When I pull out my Hi-Standard Supermatic on the range, people ask,
"What the hell is that?" g

--
Ed Huntress