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Capablanca <Mikhail.Tal@young.grandmaster.com> wrote in message
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> Guns were designed
> for the purposes of war, and they are still used in that context
> ONLY.

Wrong.

> Well, I am being innaccurate: they are also used for hunting.

Hunting. Of course. It's interesting that gun grabbers always emphasize
recreational use of guns, as if it were the only legitimate reason for
private ownership. If I were cynical, I'd suspect that the reason you do
this is to give yourselves an excuse to ban private ownership of all
guns not specifically designed for hunting. This rules out most (all?)
easily concealable handguns. Once they're gone, the government is free
to commence seizing wealth (not that it doesn't do it already, but on a
larger scale), implementing a socialist "paradise," and in general
riding roughshod over inidividual rights. I'm sure that you'd never want
to do that, though.

Never mind that most people who own guns own them in part or exclusively
for self defense. The police are there to protect us. Never mind that a
criminal won't wait for the police to arrive, and never mind that the
time when guns are most urgently needed is when the police themselves
are the threat. Everyone knows that guns are used only for war, crime,
and hunting.

> But
> since there is no real danger when you're hunting of accidentally
killing
> anyone, the gun safety lessons wouldn't be necessary, would they?

There most certainly is; that's exactly why we have gun safety lessons.

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