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#594420 - 05/08/13 12:47 AM Re: Marketing & Selling Guns to Children [Re: Reboot]
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I think that there have been great strides in the last decades in regards to auto safety... better seat belts, ABS, stricter child seat laws, crumple zones, reinforced doors, airbags.
Same with drinking and driving... more awareness, stricter laws, free rides from Taxis, designated drivers, organizations like MADD and such. There has been a monumental effort and failure when it come to drugs.

What have we seen in the weapons arena that has made great strides? Trigger locks.
And I don't own a gun... so anyone jump in with other efforts, inventions, laws.
And, mind you... this is the one that was designed to kill.... unlike autos.
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#594452 - 05/08/13 03:41 AM Re: Marketing & Selling Guns to Children [Re: NucleusG4]
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I always have a hard time accepting the equivalence of car deaths and death by guns. Sure, there are more deaths by car accidents than by guns. More cars than guns, for one thing, used for more person-hours by far than are guns, and so the greater number of deaths is not surprising.

But there's another thing that bothers me about the comparison. The purpose of cars is not to kill. And yes, I'm perfectly aware that some nut can use a car deliberately to run someone down, or can put explosives in it and blow up buildings and people. But that's not the purpose of a car. The purpose of a gun is to kill. I know--like cars, guns can be used for purposes that they weren't designed for. Target shooting is fun. I've done it myself and enjoyed it. But that's not the purpose of a gun, no more than blowing up the Murrah Building was the purpose of the vehicle that those freaks used to kill so many people.

The killing of kids by kids is accidental. But the function of the gun in those cases is not accidental. They, the guns, are doing exactly what they are designed to do.


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#594464 - 05/08/13 06:14 AM Re: Marketing & Selling Guns to Children [Re: yoyo52]
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But the function of the gun in those cases is not accidental. They, the guns, are doing exactly what they are designed to do.

Correct.
The comparison is a red herring.

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#594477 - 05/08/13 09:26 AM Re: Marketing & Selling Guns to Children [Re: yoyo52]
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zat mean
the 'ban the bathtubs' rally
has been called off as well? frown

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#594526 - 05/09/13 04:24 AM Re: Marketing & Selling Guns to Children [Re: yoyo52]
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I suppose one can make claim that the predecessor of automobiles was created to kill. At least it was created for use in war. The war chariot.

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#594529 - 05/09/13 04:56 AM Re: Marketing & Selling Guns to Children [Re: MrB]
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Really?
How far back to we have to go to make sense of nonsense?

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#594537 - 05/09/13 11:09 AM Re: Marketing & Selling Guns to Children [Re: Leslie]
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+1

Yup...
That was a reach
as was the bathtub drowning. smirk
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#594538 - 05/09/13 11:09 AM Re: Marketing & Selling Guns to Children [Re: NucleusG4]
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Stop manufacturing guns especially marketed to children like the Daisey model rifles.Children do not need this!

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#594542 - 05/09/13 12:29 PM Re: Marketing & Selling Guns to Children [Re: musicalmarv7]
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OK!!!! We're on it!!!!!
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#594545 - 05/09/13 02:17 PM Re: Marketing & Selling Guns to Children [Re: MrB]
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And the tank is made in the image and likeness of the gun.

Frankly, I don't see your point.
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