[Info-vax] Completely OT: Frank Lloyd Wright

[AEF]

On Oct 26, 8:18 am, Dirk Munk <m... at home.nl> wrote:
> 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.

So does this mean if you fire a gun and you miss, or your victim
lives, you can sue the gun manufacturer because the gun failed to
achieve it's intended purpose? :-)

> 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" :-) .

AEF