Danger is irrelevant. > -----Original Message----- > From: Judah McAuley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:53 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: questions from the gun control thread > > Words don't exist without people either. I understand the > "dangerous people" versus "dangerous guns" argument. One of > my favorite lines is "guns don't kill people....I do." But > when we are talking 1st amendment versus 2nd amendment, we > are talking about people exercising their right to free > speech (and assembly and religion) and people exercising > their right to keep and bear arms. You could argue that the > "keeping" part is passive, but the "bearing" part? No so > much. Its people with guns and people with words. > > I'm not arguing that weapons are inherently dangerous. They > aren't. In very rare situations they could go off in a fire, > etc, etc, but those are totally fringe events. I'm talking > about the relative utility and danger of people with words > versus people with guns. I still support the right of people > to have and use guns. But I think it is ludicrous to argue > that that is not fundamentally more dangerous than people > having and using words. > > Judah > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Scott Stroz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But a gun by itself is merely a paper weight. It is not until we > > introduce a human does it become dangerous. The same thing can be > > said for just about any 'weapon'. > > > > How many people have died from gunshots where a person was not > > handling the gun when it went off (or just before it went > off to cover > > incidents where someone dropping a gun may have caused it to fire)? > > > > I am not saying that there is not a problem, btu maybe the > problem is > > not with tool, but those who wield them. > >
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