On Mon, 06 Mar 2000 21:15:04 +0000, Charles Boisvert and Catherine Clinton wrote:
> That makes me glad because guns only exist for one reason:
> destruction...
This is another popular misconception about guns. Many firearms are
designed specifically for recreational uses such as hunting, target shooting,
and trap and skeet shooting. Most of these types of firearms would not be
a suitable choice for either military use, or for personal defence, or even
for criminal use. Some military firearms, such as sniper rifles, although
designed for killing at long range, are also ideally suitable for a
sportsman to use in the perfectly harmless recreational sport of target
shooting. The sports arena has a history of several thousands of years in
peaceful proficiency competitions with military weapons. Ever since the
games began, the javelin throw has always been one of the main events.
Many common everyday implements and tools such as hammers, knives, axes,
and pitchforks were originally designed for killing. It does not follow that
just because they were designed for killing that they should be banned,
especially when so many constructive uses for them may be found.
Sam Heywood
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