On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 11:49:30 -0700, A less crunchy technique
wrote:

On 7/27/2015 11:30 AM, 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.

Cite.

In fact, it's a lie. A contributor at the right-wing Breitbart cites a
few years of FBI crime statistics, in which the total number of people
murdered with *all* blunt objects (clubs, hammers, etc.) is a few hundred.


2005 - 605
2006 - 618
2011 - 496
http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...overnment%2529

You lied when you said that claw hammers kill "quite often." Maybe

Two people per day are killed with 'em. It falls into "quite often"
in my book, too.


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