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Originally posted by Yorick:
Guns have a habit of wounding or killing people. That's what they are made to do. Project a piece of metal into flesh to cause as much damage as possible.
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I had forgotten about this topic, and thought it had gone away, BUT.....
Yorick, musician you are! God fearing, you claim to be! But on guns, you have lost all reality.
Point in which to remain on topic, and to discuss your post, in this thread.
We just culminated 12 days of intense training, of a BN headed to the sand land in the very near future. 478 soldiers training for a different set of 'Soldier Skills' these are not every day grunts. They also are not every day soldiers, they belong to the National Guard(state militia), citizen soldiers if you will. They carried weapons every day, all 478 of them. M16A2, M4, & a few M9. And to direct contention with your above statement, NOT A SINGLE WEAPON KILLED! AMAZING.
A gun is an inanimate object! Really, it is. However, the person who USES it, is the 'killer'. And killer is what it should all be about. A plain old ordinary baseball bat is nothing more than a piece of wood. Can it kill? NOPE. But a psychopath could kill with it. Should we now ban all baseball bats? Hardly not! Masters of the secret art can kill with bare hands, should we then remove everyones hands? I think not.
A true story for you. I spent over 3 years at Ft Knox, Ky in the late 90's. My civilian friend was a conceal carry instructor. He carried 24/7 'period'. We were low on fuel and stopped in a not so perfect spot of Louisville, no cc at the pump etc. While inside, a thug attempted to rob the place, "Smith & Wesson" was at hand, the thug was so 'stunned' not only did he drop his gun, he left without even a petty theft. Now I will admit, not everybody has that much intestinal fortitude, but the folks I partake in friendship with do. Also, once you are looking at the business end of a "S&W" .45, and are untrained, the fight or FLIGHT factor kicks. And though this guy was closer to sober/straight than drunk/cracked he realized the disadvantage was on him. That day, 2 gun's were brought into the situation, AND NEITHER ONE KILLED, OR WOUNDED!
I bet if you wacked somebody on the side of the head with your microphone you could wound them pretty good. If you accidentally hit the wrong spot, you could drop him dead in his tracks. Then what? We would have to ban microphones? NOPE. But control the psyco. You see, it's not really 'Gun Control' but we can't publicly have 'psyco control' that would be unconstitutional!