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In reply to the discussion: The problem is that too many gun owners are more afraid of ****CRIMINALS**** and/or [View all]Tommy_Carcetti
(43,181 posts)48. Into one of three types of targets.
Human, animal, or paper.
With the first two, the expelling of the projectile into the target is meant to inflict injury and/or death upon the target.
With the latter, the expelling of the projectile into the target is meant to simulate the accuracy in which one could expel the projectile into the human or animal target upon a later unspecified and perhaps uncertain date.
I'm saying this without any sort of moral judgment upon any specific situation in which one may use a gun, but that's what guns are designed to do and the only thing guns are designed to do: They are designed to injure, kill, or simulate injury or killing. There's no other purpose (other than starter pistols, which use blank projectiles).
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The problem is that too many gun owners are more afraid of ****CRIMINALS**** and/or [View all]
hedgehog
Oct 2015
OP
Despite the fact that violence in general has been dropping for decades
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Oct 2015
#2
If tens of thousands of Americans were not killed every year by handguns and semi-autos,
tabasco
Oct 2015
#29
Which google shows no mass murders but individual and of course accidental.
uppityperson
Oct 2015
#17
The intended purpose of a firearm is to expel a projectile at a high rate of speed with accuracy...
TipTok
Oct 2015
#47
But the chances of any one person being the victim of crime are very small. Maybe we have to take
hedgehog
Oct 2015
#24
I don't fear government to the point of hyperventilation like a right wing gun nut, but ...
Old Union Guy
Oct 2015
#34