[Info-vax] Completely OT: Frank Lloyd Wright

[Dirk Munk]

AEF wrote:
> 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? :-)

Are you trying to tell me that hasn't happened yet in the US??

>
>> 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
>