So hypothetically, if you do own dynamite and don't use it to harm others, who but you will know? Does a tree falling in the forest...
If you wanted to harm others you don't need dynamite, you could stand on an expressway overpass and drop rocks on cars passing below, as children of the "inner city" do on occasion when they become bored.
Guns don't cause harm by themselves, they are inanimate objects, not posesed of a will of their own. If you decide to harm others you make the decision not the implement you use to carry out your will. In a fit of rage you could possibly beat someone to death with your bare hands. Do we preemptively cut off your hands, lest you sin?
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GtG
RE: So hypothetically, if you do own dynamite and don’t use it to harm others, who but you will know? Does a tree falling in the forest...
And that’s the point, I can use it as an excuse to practice blowing up hypothetical terrorists who attack this country (practicing the defense of America) and if laws allowed that, I should have freedom to do so, even if my REAL intent is to blow up innocents (How can anyone read my real intent? Aren’t we all supposed to be presume innocent until proven guilty?)
RE: If you wanted to harm others you don’t need dynamite, you could stand on an expressway overpass and drop rocks on cars passing below, as children of the “inner city” do on occasion when they become bored.
Yes, but if I want to do MORE harm to others, A Bazooka or Dynamite will do MORE damage. Why use the boring rock to harm only a few people when I can use the bazooka or dynamite to kill 10 or more in one shot?
Yes, I do make the decision to harm. Therefore by your reasoning, since bazookas and dynamites are in and of themselves harmful only if evil people use them, then by extension to this reasoning, since the vast majority of people are NOT evil and law abiding, they should legally be allowed to own them for whatever not harmful reason they might have, right?
The other fellow who responded to my question seem to have answered ‘YES’ to my question (see posts 18 and 20 above ).