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To: Restorer
"So what's wrong with these ideas?

Guns could and should be made safer.

Although attempts to ban older "unsafe" guns should be resisted, I see no reason why we should knee-jerk reject the very idea of making guns safer."

We should also help the obese by making forks and spoons smaller. Firearms do exactly as they are intended to do. There is no such thing as a "safe" firearm, when it is the intention of the user that generally is the problem. When intent is evil, nothing you can do to a firearm will change that intent.
116 posted on 11/13/2004 5:11:29 PM PST by hophead
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To: hophead
as with baseball bats, screwdrivers, hammers, BMWs...they're all tools made for a purpose. It's the user that determines whether they are rightly or wrongly employed. But that would imply a level of personal responsibility.

Guns are as safe as they can be made. As with other inanimate objects, they do not rise up of their own volition and strike either out of instinct or with malice aforethought.

122 posted on 11/13/2004 5:45:06 PM PST by castlebrew
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