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re: Man kills wife, 22 weeks pregnant, cleaning a loaded firearm
Posted on 3/11/14 at 5:02 pm to MIZ_COU
Posted on 3/11/14 at 5:02 pm to MIZ_COU
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Maybe I just don't like the statement Guns don't do harm people do. Maybe I find it offensively idiotic when it is used in the context of children being shot as it so often is.
I'm not sure why it bothers you in that context. Children die in car crashes all the time, and rarely is the car thought to be at fault.
Sure, a huge projectile weighing thousands of pounds factored into the equation, but the decision-making nexus is at the person level. Not the accelerator. Or the brakes.
You may not like what that argument does to your position as a "gun hater." But it is a rational argument. And as an analogy, it functions pretty well.
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Posted on 3/11/14 at 5:09 pm to the808bass
Yep. Take car chases for instance, where someone dies or is severely injured. It's not the car that gets the blame, it's the drivers.
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