[Info-vax] Completely OT: Frank Lloyd Wright

Dirk Munk munk at home.nl
Fri Oct 26 08:18:28 EDT 2012


JF Mezei wrote:
> On 12-10-25 21:58, David Froble wrote:
>
>> You may think guns are terrible, but in the three items above, in which
>> of them did the gun do something wrong?  None of them.  It was the nut
>> holding onto the gun.  Most likely an untrained nut.
>
> By that logic, every american should have a nuclear bomb in their
> basement to protect themselves in case canada or mexico invades. It
> isn't the bomb who will destroy the city, it will be the nutcase that
> detonates it from his basement when his wife gets mad at him for not
> taking out the garbage and he wants revenge so he presses the big red
> irrestible button.
>
> When you make it easy to kill someone, it takes far less to trigger a
> man's decision to kill.
>
> Just like credit cards allow women to buy shoes on impulse, guns make it
> very easy for men to shoot someone on impulse.  Just as not every women
> will succomb to the temptation to buy shoes, not every men will be
> tempted to kill on impulse.   But there are enough men who do get
> tempted that it is a serious problem when you make it so easy to kill
> with a clean, cheap, efficient, easy to use gun easily purchased at
> local corner stores.
>
> I bet there are more warnings on ladders than on guns. If ladder
> companies can get sued if someone misuses a ladder and falls to the
> ground, how come gun manufacturers never get sued when their equipment
> is misused and kills ?
>

Very simple. Ladders are not made with the intention that you will fall 
to the ground and brake your neck. Guns are not made for target 
practice, but to kill (with the exception of some real sport guns). So 
if you kill some one with a gun, the gun did what is was designed for, 
there is no misuse. If you use the gun as a hammer and it goes off, then 
you were misusing it. So you are right, there should be a sticker on the 
gun "do not use as a hammer" :-) .




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