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somebody <x### [at] ycom> wrote:
> "Nicolas Alvarez" <nic### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message
> news:49f5e1e4@news.povray.org...
> > Chambers wrote:
> > > A mistake by a gun-owner results in someone getting shot and possibly
> > > killed.
> > I believe *his* point is: Guns are made for shooting and killing. If
> someone
> > gets shot or gets killed, is it a mistake? The gun did what it was made
> > for.
> Indeed. None of the three that are killed by that Georgia professor will
> not, by definition, enter into the "accidental deaths by gun" column, for
> instance. It's a disingenuous and meaningless comparison. Atom bombs, by the
> same criteria, are the best thing that happened to humanity. Not a single
> human has died from an accidental detonation. Thus, every household should
> have one.
A gun is simply a more advanced version of a crossbow, which is an
advanced version of a bow. Nobody seems to oppose people who own and use
bows as a sport.
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- Warp
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