The next time a gun enthusiast wants to compare guns to cars or swimming pools...

[Electric Monk]

(reposting after it was locked in GD)

Tommy_Carcetti (23,693 posts)

The next time a gun enthusiast wants to compare guns to cars or swimming pools, just ask this:

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by Sissyk (a host of the General Discussion forum).
When's the last time you heard about an army giving its soldiers cars for the purpose of running over enemy soldiers?

When's the last time you heard about an army giving its soldiers swimming pools and having them try to grab enemy soldiers and drown them in the pools?

Yes, guns are tools.

They are also extra-ordinary tools, and ought to be subjected to extra-ordinary levels of regulation.

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[randys1]

1. Guns have TWO purposes only, to kill or to play with as a toy.

Given the downside to this toy, time to put it up and grow up.